10/24/2026
Many residents in Marin this week received this text from the Eric Lucan campaign attempting to take credit for the half measures that the No ICE in Marin coalition has twisted his arm to deliver for over a year. And he won’t even consider an ordinance that would actually be legally-binding.
Don’t be fooled, and know the facts:
1. Lucan acknowledges ICE is “unacceptable, unlawful, cruel, and inhumane” but refused to even entertain a new local law that would ban ICE from county property. Instead, he helped pass a weak internal policy which places no legal restrictions on ICE.
2. Nobody disputes the goal. The disagreement is over the tools we use to reach it. The county’s new policy has no chance of stopping ICE from using public county property because it doesn’t even apply to these public spaces in the first place. Lucan’s goal may be laudable, but that doesn’t matter if the policy he’s passed has no chance of accomplishing it.
3. The word “certain” is here because the new policy does NOT ban ICE from publicly-accessible county property like the jail lobby, the jail parking lot, and the civic center building. In the last four days, four of our neighbors have been abducted by ICE from these public spaces. The county policy does nothing to prevent this and gives us no means of holding ICE accountable when they kidnap members of our community.
4. Lucan has done little more than what state law (SB 580) requires of county governments. San Francisco, San Mateo, Sonoma, Oakland, Berkeley, and Santa Rosa have all passed legally-binding ICE-Free ordinances to protect their communities. Under Lucan’s “leadership,” Marin has failed to join them.
