By SUZANNE DOWNING
Jan. 30, 2026 – A group of liberals on the Anchorage Assembly is introducing a resolution that takes direct aim at federal immigration enforcement and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, suggesting that ICE operations are unconstitutional and calling for restrictions on federal authority, funding, and enforcement powers.
The measure, AR No. 2026-35, is sponsored by Assembly Members Erin Baldwin Day, Yarrow Silvers, and Daniel Volland, all from the hard-Democrat viewpoint, and is scheduled for a reading on Feb. 3.
Because it is a resolution rather than an ordinance, it will not go through a public hearing process and will not be subject to public comment. There may be debate, however, among the members of the Assembly.
The resolution is formally sold as a reaffirmation of constitutional principles, but its substance functions as a political statement opposing federal immigration enforcement, ICE operations, and the Department of Homeland Security.
It repeatedly characterizes federal actions as abusive, unconstitutional, and “militarized,” and portrays immigration enforcement as a civil liberties crisis rather than a public safety function of the federal government. It makes no references to the many people who have been killed by illegal immigrants across the country.
The document directly criticizes the expansion of enforcement agencies following passage of the “One, Big Beautiful Bill Act” in 2025, claiming it led to increased funding and expansion of the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the US Border Patrol. It also references recent ICE deployments in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, asserting that federal agents were responsible for civil unrest and killings, claims presented in drama-laced language that comes before any judicial findings or completed investigations cited in the resolution itself.
The resolution goes further by alleging “mass deportation” of individuals to “prison camps,” claiming deportations are occurring without due process and in defiance of court orders, language that escalates the politicization of immigration enforcement into a constitutional crisis narrative.
The members also criticize federal officials for labeling individuals killed during unrest as agitators, rioters, or terrorists, and argues that lawful protest, assembly, and firearm possession are being improperly treated as threats by federal authorities.
The measure calls on Alaska’s congressional delegation — Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Nick Begich — to pass legislation that would impose new restrictions on federal immigration enforcement.
Those demands include independent investigations of federal uses of deadly force, public identification requirements for federal agents during operations, expanded training and regulation of immigration officers, restrictions on federal funding for enforcement activities, and reforms to align immigration enforcement with international human rights standards. Sen. Murkowski has already called for an investigation and congressional authority over ICE. Congressman Nick Begich has said, “If anything, recent events have underscored the need for additional funding to ensure law enforcement has the tools, personnel, and training needed to complete their job,” and says he supports law enforcement’s ability to do its job without interference from outside agitators.
The Assembly resolution also formally asserts a list of rights it claims are being threatened, including protections against warrantless home entry, unlawful detention, retaliation for protest activity, and presumption of threat based solely on lawful firearm possession.
While the resolution carries no legal force, it represents a clear political posture by Anchorage Assembly sponsors against federal immigration enforcement and ICE operations. As a non-binding resolution, it does not change policy, law, or enforcement authority, but functions as an official political statement.
Because it bypasses public testimony and public hearing requirements, residents will have no formal opportunity to comment before Assembly action, even as the resolution takes positions on national immigration policy, federal law enforcement authority, and constitutional interpretation.
14 thoughts on “Anchorage Assembly targets ICE with anti-enforcement resolution … and no public comment allowed”
If those three put as much into the districts they represent its neighborhood streets maintenance wouldn’t look as it does today
Especially with all the snow don’t go into these three districts
The muni cant Blane the State DOT for poor road service when its the muni neighborhood streets. The state is doing its part maintaining the state roads under its responsiblity
These people are so dangerous to our community. They shouldn’t be allowed to do this. Where are the people ?
I agree with Tina. The ICE removal we need is the kind we drive on. Stay in your own lane assembly.
This is a clear attempt to dehumanize our neighbors and friends and it is despicable!
And for the record, if you obstruct, attack, seek to harm and impede law enforcement during enforcement operations, you ARE an agitator, rioter and terrorist, because those action DO NOT constitute a protest protected by the First Amendment.
If you have an issue there are two avenues open: Petition your government to change the law, or go to court! Fighting in the street is anarchy not democracy!
I suppose the assembly and Lisa think if they can just do this, we can be just like everyone else. Some of us live here because we don’t want to be like everyone else. Those of us who do, don’t go around inviting a problem. We want to live peacefully. I guess that’s not enough for some people. If they are not happy they don’t want anyone else to be happy. I have a better idea. Why don’t the members of the assembly and Lisa move down to the lower 48 so they can be with the rest of the malcontents?
ICE OVER criminals any day
If anyone is involved with those ICE Watch groups. Report Ice everywhere. Wel!, it IS Alaska in winter, there’s ice all.over the place. Just run them silly chasing phantom agents in every sector of town. Report them on the UAA campus, then at Midtown Mall, then Girdwood, and downtown, etc.
When the issue is not the issue. What I see as THE issue is an Assembly that picks and chooses which laws to enforce and uses a vehicle that doesn’t allow for public comment. Instead, like other things, it takes their vehicle and rams it into the wall that is the dissenting opinion. No opinions allowed; no dissent. By calling it a “civil liberties issue”, they again pick and choose whose liberties are protected: The law-abiding, tax-paying Anchorage citizen or, those who have skirted immigration protocol (laws) and are using their friends in government and activism to elude consequences. Why do you think they prefer undocumented to illegal?
I wonder if the sponsors of the resolution intend to provide any actual EVIDENCE of the activities that the resolution is supposed to address – or if they intend to cite vague media reports or “Tweets”. Maybe they will use “everybody knows” as a justification. I kinda doubt that the sponsors have any first-hand knowledge. Some may reference postings on BlueSky. In general, the effectiveness of the resolution will depend on the facts – if there are any. The sponsors should balance the value of their performative act against the risk of embarrassment.
Reclaim Anchorage, Step 1: Flip the Assembly to a Conservative majority.
Municipal Election April 7, 2026
District 1 (downtown): Vote Conservative JUSTIN MILETTE to replace term-limited Chris Constant.
District 2 (Chugiak, Eagle River, JBER): Vote Conservative DONALD HANDELAND to replace conservative Scott Myers, who is not running again but endorses Handeland.
District 3 (West): Vote Conservative BRIAN FLYNN to replace incumbent Anna Brawley.
District 4 (Midtown): Vote Conservative DAVE DONLEY to replace term-limited Felix Rivera.
District 5 (East): Vote Conservative CODY ANDERSON to replace incumbent George Martinez.
District 6 (South Anchorage, Girdwood, Turnagain Arm): Vote Conservative BRUCE VERGASON to replace incumbent Zac Johnson.
If we can get these six seats flipped, and with Goecker and McCormick, we’ll have a conservative majority on the Assembly.
WE CAN DO THIS, ANCHORAGE!!!
Please pass the word on to whomever, however, wherever, and whenever. We have two months to get the word out and encourage everyone to vote. Let’s elect people who will actually represent us to the Anchorage Assembly.
It is nice to know that Christopher Constantly-Marxist, and Pigman “I’m just as Marxists as he is!” Rivera, are both getting term-limited out.
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It is sad to know that the brainwashed and brain-dead voters of their hardcore Marxist districts will certainly elect other hardcore Marxists in their places.
AR No. 2026-35
A RESOLUTION OF THE ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY REAFFIRMING ITS COMMITMENT TO SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND CALLING UPON THE ALASKA CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO PASS LEGISLATION REFORMING FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS
https://meetings.muni.org/AgendaOnline/Documents/DownloadFileBytes/Assembly_Regular_-_February_3%2c_2026_6301_Agenda_Packet_2_3_2026_5_00_00_PM.pdf?documentType=5&meetingId=6301&isAttachment=True
Pages 58-62
Perhaps the people should show up with whistles, pots, pans, and bull horns and speak peacefully during the assembly meeting. It’s a goose and gander sort of thing.
Put this together with the Anchorage School District superintendent’s policy of non-cooperation with ICE, the infusion of drag shows and pornography into Anchorage schools, plus the reportedly rampant debauchery, with drag shows, in Juneau, what assures us the Assembly’s anti-enforcement resolution is -not- motivated by their perception that ICE could barge in and mess up an epic child-trafficking pipeline?