Los Angeles leaders introduce legislation to impede Trump mass deportations

Los Angeles metropolis leaders connected Tuesday introduced authorities to support migrant communities amid unrest owed to President Donald Trump's crackdown connected amerciable immigrants. 

Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez introduced 5 proposals aimed astatine strengthening labour and migration protections, which helium said would code renewed threats of wide deportations, work-site raids and targeted enforcement actions, Fox Los Angeles reported. 

"We are present contiguous because, unfortunately, we person a president who wants to scapegoat and onslaught our migrant neighbors," Martinez said during a quality league extracurricular City Hall alongside assembly members Eunisses Hernandez, Imelda Padilla and Ysabel Jurado and respective migrant rights, labor, ineligible and assemblage groups. "And we are not going to instrumentality that lightly.

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Los Angeles City Council Member Hugo Soto-Martinez watches proceedings wrong assembly chambers astatine City Hall successful downtown Los Angeles Sept. 20, 2024.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

"The authorities volition marque definite that we're prepared and that we're acceptable to combat back, which involves a broad ‘know your rights’ run crossed the full metropolis truthful immigrants and employers recognize their rights and don't autumn unfortunate to ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) intimidation."

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A ample radical of radical protesting President Donald Trump's crackdown connected amerciable migration stormed the 101 Freeway successful downtown Los Angeles Sunday, creating large postulation delays, according to police. (FOX 11 Los Angeles)

The authorities volition beryllium heard by the council's Civil Rights & Immigration Committee earlier a vote. 

If approved, it would reaffirm the city's committedness to protecting its migrant assemblage from imaginable deportation. In November, the assembly and Mayor Karen Bass formally established Los Angeles arsenic a alleged sanctuary city.

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The determination by Soto-Martinez came aft 2 days of protests during which demonstrators took implicit the 101 freeway and section streets to reason Trump's wide deportation plans of illegal immigrant criminals.