"We're going to send a very clear message that the city of Los Angeles will not cooperate with ICE in any way," said councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, who sponsored the ordinance. "By passing this law today, we are making sure that we are keeping our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers safe."
The reality is that this ordinance will do next to nothing to protect immigrants and their families from what Trump and his far-right immigration advisers have planned. We must take them at their word when they threaten to enact mass deportation and bulldoze over sanctuary city laws.
They [cities and states] don't have to help us, but they need to get the hell out of the way, because we're coming, we're going to do it," Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan told Newsmax last week. "Which means if I have to send twice as many resources to that sanctuary city, twice as many agents, that's exactly what I'm going to do."
On Nov. 29, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a local order issued by officials in Seattle that would have restricted ICE deportation flights from a local airport. The court ruled that this effort to protect noncitizen Seattle residents violated the federal government's power over immigration matters.
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