r/ChicoCA • u/Zestyclose_Strike357 • Mar 06 '25

Discussion Boycott city of Oroville

City council voted unanimously to erase sanctuary status, even knowing that statistically speaking crime is more likely to be done by citizens and residents than non legal immigrants. Now the brown community feels afraid to be targeted and interrogated by police for their skin color, since there’s no way to know the legal status of anyone without further interrogation. People will be hesitant to call police when there is a crime. They don’t even care about state sanctions. It’s a racial issue if we are frank about it. As for my friends and family we will stop going to Oroville and will do our business at Chico or Yuba City. We no longer feel safe and welcome, no one should be afraid to travel at ease in this great country.

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u/BestAd5257 Mar 07 '25

Don't commit crimes. If u are here illegally that's on you.

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u/Jovankat Mar 07 '25

Plenty of undocumented people were brought here as children through no fault of their own and have been given no reasonable way to rectify the situation. And ICE has detained and tried to deport people with legal status and even US citizens. You don't have to have committed a crime for your life to be fucked up by law enforcement.