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The Fairfield League of Women Voters recently organized a debate for the February 3rd First Selectperson special election between candidates State Sen. Tony Hwang (R) and Fairfield First Selectperson Christine Vitale (D).

After a couple of questions on affordable housing, the League quickly turned to ICE.

"What is your plan should ICE start going door-to-door here in Fairfield as we are seeing in communities across the country?" asked the debate moderator.

The question went to Hwang first; he asked for it to be repeated and to clarify the goal.

"What is your plan to keep our residents safe should ICE start going door-to-door in Fairfield as we are seeing in communities across the country?" asked the debate moderator.

"Well, I can speak as an immigrant that that immigrated and and been grateful to be an American," said Hwang. "But I'm also a minority that is fully conscious of the trials and tribulations and the fear that may impact communities of differences."

"I know from my father, who was a first generation immigrant, and when he worked in a restaurant business that there was always the fear of being singled out, being targeted, so I will reassure anyone and everyone in this state, one as a state senator and also one as a resident of the state of Connecticut, that no one's personal civil liberties will ever be violated," promised Hwang. "Law and order needs to be respecting the civil protections of people in this country and in the state and in this town and in each residence."

Vitale immediately invoked Connecticut's sanctuary policy.

"Connecticut has a Trust Act," boasted Vitale. "I would hope that that would not be happening. I would be standing with those residents standing up for their civil liberties. What's happening right now in our country is scary for all of us, regardless if you're a minority or not. I struggle with what the next steps are. I fear for our community. I fear for our police department and law officials that might have to be faced with situations that they're really not prepared for. We are going to follow the law. Connecticut has laws in place right now to protect our immigrants and I stand by those laws."

She added, with a slight stutter, "it is absolutely atrocious that the federal government is threatening to cut off federal funding to states that are just protecting their residents."

Then Hwang added his two cents.

"I think we both agree in regards to ICE and immigration concerns, but I also must put in a caveat that needs to be balanced with understanding that law and order and public safety needs to be balanced with the rights and and the values that we both supported," said Hwang in a bit of a word salad.

"I think the real concern in regards to the police accountability impact and as well as resources provided to our law enforcement is something critical," he continued. "Public safety, law enforcement needs to be balanced with a sense of humanity, with a sense of respect for the individual, and I think it's a delicate act, but I think that is, and I do believe that is part of what the leadership of the town needs to dictate."

"We need to stand out in front and create that kind of vision. To say that everyone should be protected either based on religion, the ethnicity, immigration status, but at the same time, the regular citizens of this town need to understand that they are protected under the law as well, and we cannot have lawlessness in our communities," Hwang concluded.

Vitale followed up her comments with a formal statement on public safety on January 27th.

She said that as First Selectperson, it's her "responsibility to make sure our residents feel safe, respected, and protected within our community. This includes our immigrant friends and neighbors."

She once again brought up the Trust Act and how it "protects civil liberties and ensures that local and state police are not deputized to carry out federal immigration enforcement" which she claims "allows our officers to focus on what matters most."

The truth is that preventing Connecticut law enforcement officials from coordinating with ICE is what creates unsafe situations.

"When sanctuary cities do not allow us to get the illegal alien criminal in the safety and security of a jail, now we got to send a whole team of five or six agents, for officer safety reasons, to find that public safety threat," explained Border Czar Tom Homan.

Too bad politicians in Connecticut don't see it that way.

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