Um, and I wanted to ask h- h- how do you think about just, you know, mutual aid, just helping communities that right now in many places are in hiding, um, that are bearing the brunt of what Trump is doing and how that is, is changing life in Pasadena right now?

You know, it really is.

You know, and, and, uh, I've e- I've experienced living in that fear.

Uh, as you mentioned, I was born in Zacatecas, Mexico.

Uh, my parents brought me there.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) My parents brought me to Pasadena at age, uh, five.

Uh, and I remember being, uh, brought across the border.

Wow.

and I wanted to ask, how do you think about just mutual aid, just helping communities that right now in many places are in hiding, that are bearing the brunt of what Trump is doing, and how that is changing life in Pasadena right now?

You know, it really is, and I've experienced living in that fear.

As you mentioned, I was born in Zacatecas, Mexico.

My parents brought me to...

My parents brought me to Pasadena at age five, and I remember being brought across the border.

And my parents, my grandparents brought me to the border, where I was then brought across to reunite with my parents, who had moved here three years before.

And we lived in a garage.

Yeah.

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Well, you know, I, it, it's always fun, and, uh, and a great opportunity to come and celebrate with our local business community, and so we have to make time for that, and I'm, I'm ...

I appreciate very much having been invited.

And thank you for having me.

But I just love the vibe here, and from now until New Year's, all hands on deck.

Absolutely.

You know, this is ...

Pasadena's a great city.

How would you describe the scope of Trump's immigration actions inside Pasadena and the response of your community?

Well, you know, the, the first thing that I'd like to point out is, eh, we know that there are armed men jumping out of unmarked vehicles wielding high-powered weapons, uh, at our parks, at our community centers, and in our neighborhoods, um, or there were, there have been.

What we don't know is whether in fact these are ICE or federal agents at all.

We don't know that these are operations and whether we have a completely dangerous, uh, different situation and dangerous situation at our ha- on our hands.

Um, it, it's, it's, it's creating a volatile, dangerous situation.

Our police chief is making every attempt to contact, uh, the federal government, uh, lo- in Los Angeles and Washington DC, uh, to confirm whether in fact these are ICE operations.

We believe that they are, but we just don't know.

Did your office or the police department or any other entity of Pasadena city government have contact with, um, the Home, Department of Homeland Security or the federal government around that protest and that, uh, eventuality when those agents all left?