More than 50 residents of National City held a rally Tuesday asking city leaders to pass a resolution to discourage local law enforcement agencies from arresting people who are in the country illegally.

Alliance San Diego and 31 other organizations have sent a letter to San Diego’s mayor and city council urging them to honor the will of the voters and refrain from scheduling a costly special election in 2017. Voters made clear when they passed Measure L that local ballot measures should be brought in November general elections when the most people vote, not in special elections that serve special interests.

On Monday, June 5th, the city council will vote on a budget and will decide whether to include $5 million for a special election. Alliance San Diego invites you to join us at the city council meeting to make our voice heard: No Special Elections for Special Interests!

Read the letter below:

By Christopher Rice-Wilson

President Donald Trump — fresh off House approval of a health care bill that would cut taxes for the wealthy to gut care — is now peddling a tax proposal that would cut corporate taxes by $2.4 trillion over 10 years. The wealthiest corporations would get the overwhelming majority of this, while small businesses would get far less. And like all tax cuts for the wealthy, the people who would end up paying for them are us, the everyday taxpayers, in the form of deep cuts to vital services that we rely on every day.

Nearly 70 community activists and border residents gathered on Tuesday, May 23, at the Malcolm X Library for Black and Brown Unity Through Resistance, a community forum to explore ways that Black and Brown communities can work together to fight racial injustice at the hands of law enforcement