Los Angeles passes sanctuary city ordinance in wake of Trump election victory

Los Angeles metropolis lawmakers voted Tuesday to formally follow a sanctuary metropolis ordinance, weeks aft President-elect Trump's victory, amid promises to transportation retired wide deportation raids.  

The 13-0 ballot volition prohibit Los Angeles from providing immoderate metropolis resources oregon unit to beryllium utilized to assistance national enforcement of immigration laws.

City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto, on with Mayor Karen Bass, released the draught ordinance past week that was written with assistance from migration groups.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detain a fishy arsenic they behaviour a targeted enforcement cognition successful Los Angeles, California, U.S. successful February 2017. The agency’s Boston bureau said Wednesday that 2 men were taken into custody aft it alerted the nationalist astir them done a flyer. (Courtesy Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Reuters) (Courtesy Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Reuters)

Council members Hugo Soto-Martinez and Monica Rodriguez, who seat the council's Civil Rights and Public Safety committees, respectively, waived the substance from their jurisdictions to expedite a ballot connected the matter. 

California has been a sanctuary authorities since 2017 with the transition of SB 54, which prohibits section instrumentality enforcement agencies from utilizing resources to investigate, detain, study oregon apprehension radical for migration violations.

During a statement Tuesday, galore nationalist speakers pushed for the sanctuary ordinance, saying migrant communities should beryllium protected from "unimaginable cruelty" of raids that could abstracted families and people migrants who travel to the U.S. to work. 

Others raised concerns astir the depletion of resources fixed to assistance illegal immigrants, fixed that the metropolis is contending with wide homelessness and a lodging crisis. 

Sanctuary cities typically don't cooperate with national migration authorities, refusing to grant detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which are utilized to instrumentality custody of transgression amerciable immigrants for deportation. 

Many times, specified jurisdictions volition merchandise the suspects backmost onto the thoroughfare without informing ICE. Some person gone connected to reoffend, sometimes violently, earlier being apprehended again. 

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LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 02: A presumption of Los Angeles City Hall. Twin Towers Correctional Facility connected Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023 successful Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) (Getty Images)

The ballot volition travel 2 weeks aft President-elect Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, pursuing a run successful which helium promised to tighten the confederate borderline and transportation retired wide deportations of millions of amerciable immigrants, targeting criminals who've committed a assortment of crimes aft illegally entering the United States. 

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Tom Homan, who antecedently served arsenic acting manager of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and has been tapped by Trump to service arsenic his "border czar," antecedently suggested wide deportations are indispensable successful the aftermath of the "historic amerciable migration crisis."

"President Trump has made it wide we volition prioritize nationalist information threats and nationalist information threats first. And that's what the absorption should be," helium told Fox News big Sean Hannity past week.

Former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued an enforcement directive successful 2019 that offered protections to immigrants. Los Angeles has followed sanctuary metropolis guidelines but an ordinance was ne'er codified into law. Additionally, the Los Angeles Police Department mandates that its officers not inquire astir migration presumption oregon marque arrests related to a migrant's ineligible status.

Newly appointed Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell has said the section won't enactment successful migration enforcement. 

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Demonstrators advocator for Los Angeles metropolis leaders to follow a sanctuary metropolis ordinance connected Tuesday.   (Fox Los Angeles )

The Los Angeles County Republican Party criticized the ordinance, saying sanctuary extortion would shield criminals who person entered the United States illegally. 

"A state without unafraid borders isn't a state astatine all. So-called ‘sanctuary’ cities and states dependable lukewarm and fuzzy, but the protections they connection aren't for abuelas (grandmothers) getting crystal cream, they're for radical who've entered the state illegally and committed further crimes," LACGOP Communications Director Rozanne Hodge told Fox News Digital. "Whether drunk driving, robbery, intersexual violence, battle oregon murder, nary of those should spell unpunished. Perpetrators should decidedly not beryllium protected by the largesse taken from hard-working taxpayers."

If the City of Los Angeles would similar to person thriving, safe, cleanable streets and businesses successful clip for the Olympics, possibly they could judge the volition of the radical who conscionable tossed George Gascon retired connected his receptor and absorption connected nationalist information for everyone," she added. 

Trump's triumph has spurred officials successful assorted parts of the state to vow to propulsion backmost connected deportations. 

President Donald Trump visits the US-Mexico borderline obstruction successful Otay Mesa, Calif. connected Sept. 18, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

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On Sunday, Boston's Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu said her metropolis won't cooperate with immoderate deportation cognition from ther incoming Trump administration, contempt her portion seeing a fig of amerciable immigrants being charged with crimes and released backmost onto the streets. 

Arizona's Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs said her state, which voted for Trump, volition not beryllium aiding the incoming medication with its "misguided" program to motorboat a wide deportation operation.

Following California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to combat the incoming Trump administration.

"Whether it beryllium our cardinal civilian rights, reproductive freedom, oregon clime enactment — we garbage to crook backmost the timepiece and let our values and laws to beryllium attacked," helium said.