Christian Ilvert

It was one of the most attended meetings, if not the highest attended meeting at public comment that I've ever seen, let alone attended.

And it was...

It was really, really powerful because this was not a bunch of latte drinking liberal East Coast elitist white activists.

This was an immigrant community coming forward despondent.

broken in many ways, sharing the most powerful and distressing stories of sacrificing everything, separating from their families, traversing shark infested waters, risking their lives, people who had lost family in the journey and the risk to experience freedom and the American dream here in Miami.

They were begging, they were pleading.

It was really powerful and it really affected me in ways that I didn't realize that it would, sitting there and hearing these people.

I don't know if you've watched any of it, but it's really well worth a watch just to see how people feel about this and how it experiences their lives.

What do you say to those people who would be your constituents, who are scared?

in their own homes in their own country in their own community because they feel that their police department is colluding with ice to send them away maybe to a country that they weren't born in that they've never seen that maybe they were born into but don't even remember because they were single digits

when their parents put them on an airplane with a Catholic priest in Pedro Pan and sent them to this strange country, which became the only home they ever knew.

It was powerful shit, dude.

And it was hard not to be really moved by it and to really put a face and a name and stories onto these things that we sometimes think of as being very archaic.

What do you say to those people to reassure them?

And it happens now, by the way.

And it happens now.

So before we go, you've already said that day one you're going to do a forensic audit.

I imagine you're going to – you said it on CBS that you're going to be replacing the city manager.

You're going to be hiring a new city manager, obviously, with the consultation, I suppose, of the commission.

What other day one – when I say day one, that could be week one.