‘Things are trying to suppress it, right?’: 2021 Camp 210 sweep letter from Immigration Advisory Board, a year-long timeline / Noisy Waters Northwest

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June 19, 2024 Dena Jensen

“Things are trying to suppress it, right?” That was a remark made by a Bellingham City Council Member to the City’s Immigration Advisory Board members back in 2021. The context and specific timing will be made clear later in this post, but the question evokes an atmosphere of oppression that too many members of marginalized communities dwell within.  

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Bellingham Mayor Fleetwood calls for slowing down services, speeding up new jail / Noisy Waters Northwest

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Click the graphic to access a copy of the full June 6, 2023 letter sent by Whatcom County mayors encouraging the County Council to delay funding for social services

June 8, 2023 Dena Jensen

Bellingham Mayor Seth Fleetwood has signed on to each one of the Small City Caucus letters posted on the Justice Project comment webpage and sent to Whatcom County Council Members regarding their county’s Justice Project so far. All three letters have emphasized the building of a new jail over behavioral health services, but none so clearly as the one dated June 6, 2023, or with the amount of alarming and detailed proposals.  (As of the date of this post, there is not an active link to the letter on that comment webpage, but the letter is listed there and a link to the letter was found elsewhere on the Whatcom County website.)

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