 Well, we're waiting to get ready. Let's get a chance going. Let's do Vermont will fight for immigrant rights. Vermont will fight for immigrant rights. Vermont will fight for immigrant rights. Vermont will fight for immigrant rights. Vermont will fight for immigrant rights. Vermont will fight for immigrant rights. for immigrant rights. We'll long, we'll fight for immigrant rights. We'll long, we'll fight for immigrant rights. We'll long, we'll fight for immigrant rights. So last thing we're going to do is somewhere. So we need Betsy and Brian. If you guys can come up here, please. That'll save us some time for transition once we get moving. Brian's here. Thanks, Brian. All right. So, first of all, we just want to welcome everybody and tell you thank you so much for coming tonight. It is so important that you are here. We're here to send a strong message to Burlington City Council and let them know that we expect them to take a stand for immigrant rights in our city. It's a situation that was limit collaboration between Burlington Police Department and immigration authorities. Burlington, and it's our job to stand up and ask the city council to do the right thing. That's why we're here tonight. It's a agenda that the city council president determined to quote, more time sensitive. Of the city council to get us to go away, to sit down, to be quiet, that that is not the case. Our momentum is here to sign up to speak and use your voice to make a two minute public comment about why this issue is so vital to our community and it cannot wait. It's for public comment. That's right. We're gonna talk about that. Your being here tonight is so important because it's gonna show city council that regardless of whether we're on the agenda tonight, we're here to make sure this issue gets the attention and the time and the space that it deserves at this meeting tonight. We've heard our campaign this group is working on and we need all the support we can get. This is what local grassroots activism looks like and it's how change happens. Thank you everybody for coming out tonight on behalf of BTV Cop Watch. We stand here in solidarity with immigrants who are such a vital part of our community. Here in Burlington, and Chittenden County, and throughout Vermont, it's an anxiety and frustration that people are suffering at the hands of ICE and Border Patrol. Our thoughts are with everyone impacted and I'm hopeful we can find a way to show up for you in a meaningful way moving forward. I'd like to thank the organizers and community voices for immigrant Rice, NoMoth Polymigra and Microdustice for doing the important work of building on Vermont's barren and partial policing policy here in Burlington. I'm hopeful that we can make an impact at some point whenever they take up this vote. The clear message that immigrants are welcome in the community. But I do know that what happens, I do know that it began when I told you about what happens in this building behind me to solve our problem. At the end of the day, we don't have a criminal justice system that's practiced at holding the police accountable for much. We've already seen too many instances of law enforcement agencies apparently disregarding statewide fifth policy. We haven't been able to trust the Vermont State Police. We haven't been able to trust the Chittenden County Sheriff's Office. And I'm not ready to trust the Burlington Police Department. But I do trust us. I trust that we can step up, organize ourselves and get out into the community to provide oversight in real time. We want people to vote and do this work. If you're interested in doing that work and you'd like some company, you can please reach out to myself. And I don't know if anybody else in the crowd is wearing this BTB cop watch hat, but we are on Facebook, we're on Twitter, and we have a training coming up on March 2nd, and which is a great way to get involved. But if filming the police isn't your thing, we would have a lot of stuff for people to do behind the scenes. So if you're interested, please reach out. Thank you all so very much. Yeah, thank you guys. All right. Okay. I'm also pulling me back to Burlington for the last couple of months. I'm really excited to be back in town and hopefully be back in town when they actually present the Vice President of Vermont AFL-CIO, one of the largest labor unions here in Vermont. So, the Vermont AFL-CIO is proud to stand in solidarity with our brothers, sisters, and comrades in the fight for justice, for immigrant workers in our state. We take enormous inspiration from the bravery demonstrated by members of migrant justice who have shown that it is possible to organize and win under the most difficult of circumstances. Ben and Jerry's wouldn't back them up. The farm workers have organized, mobilized, rallied, made noise, and refused to back down. Of all workers, of all backgrounds throughout this state to organize. They have placed before the Burlington City Council no collaboration between the police and ICE. Racial profiling by the police, we need to have to worry that a routine trip to a health clinic or the grocery store will end in deportation. Exactly what this Polynegra collaboration means, the maintenance of a climate of fear aimed at isolating and disempowering immigrant workers. So, welcome in our state and in the labor movement. We recognize that an injury to want is an injury to all. We recognize that a victory against racial profiling and the scapegoating of immigrants is a victory for all workers. We look like. We thank migrant justice for demonstrating that it is possible to fight for dignity and better working conditions. And we pledge our solidarity for this and all other fights of working people standing up for equality, livable wages, and humane working conditions. Obreros unidos, jamás serás vencidos. Yay! Here's United. We'll never be defeated. My name is Rosie Alfaro, and I'm part of the Migrant Justice Coordinating Committee. We're so grateful that all of you are here tonight that we're here together despite the cold and the poor conditions. Thank you for being out here tonight. And we're so grateful that all of you are here tonight that we're here together despite the cold and the poor conditions. Thank you for being out here tonight. And I'm here representing a community that could not be here tonight. Many of them because they are working on farms in this moment. And we're here because we demand that the city of Burlington say no mass poli migra, no more collaboration between police and immigration agents. And so we're calling on the city, we demand that the city pass the no mass poli migra policy so that we no longer live in fear of being detained. We want to be able to leave our homes without the fear, without the terror that an encounter with a police officer will result in our deportation. We want an end to arrest and deportations caused by police. We want to be able to live in peace and without fear. So once more I want to thank each and every one of you for being out here tonight and for being in this struggle together because we know that when we are united we cannot be defeated. Sign up to speak. Now, if you have not done this before or you're unsure about it, we have some things to help you along. When you head in, there are going to be folks in orange vest who are going to show you where to sign up. And if you're not totally sure what to say, we also have talking points that can get you started. But there's no wrong way to speak. We just ask that you speak from your heart, use your voice, remember that the people on the city council represent you and they need to know how you feel about this issue. Also makes a great point, if you are an immigrant or otherwise uncomfortable, you don't need to give your real name. We have the, here we want to say thank you to so much. The people know we're here, we've got energy, they did not be.