http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...story.html

Quote:Los Alamitos leaders on Monday approved an ordinance that exempts their Orange County municipality from Senate Bill 54, a law that took effect Jan. 1 and restricts local law enforcement's cooperation with federal immigration authorities. It marks a rare effort by a city to challenge the sanctuary movement, which has wide support among elected officials in left-leaning California.

Quote:About 160 people showed up to Monday's regular City Council meeting, a monthly event that rarely draws enough people to fill the 40-seat chamber. Speakers lined up late into the evening to address elected officials, who eventually voted 4 to 1 to approve the ordinance.

"Sometimes things are bigger than we are," said Mayor Troy D. Edgar.

Cheers erupted inside the chamber after the vote, with some shouting "Patriots!" and "This is a win for America!" as others waved pro-Trump flags.

Councilman Mark A. Chirco was the sole dissenter, suggesting the initiative could expose the city to litigation.

"We disagree with Sacramento on a lot of things. Are we not going to follow state law every time we disagree with them?" he said. "I don't think that would be prudent."

It's unclear how the ordinance will be implemented, and Mayor Pro Tem Warren Kusumoto, who proposed the initiative, said it may end up being largely symbolic.

"Is it going to hold up? I don't know," he said.



Among those who attended the meeting was Moti Cohen, a Garden Grove resident whose wife grew up in Los Alamitos, and who supports the anti-sanctuary measure.

Cohen, an immigrant from Israel, said he came to the U.S. legally and that everyone else should, too. He arrived 27 years ago with a tourist visa and became a legal resident after marrying his U.S. citizen wife.

"The law is the law and has to be enforced all over the country," he said. "The country is a law-and-order country and you have to come here legally."

Quote:Critics in Los Alamitos take issue with SB 54, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed after the Legislature passed it last year. It prohibits state and local police agencies from notifying federal officials in many cases when immigrants potentially subject to deportation are about to be released from custody.

The initiative is in addition to sanctuary city laws passed by numerous communities and other state laws that protect those without legal residency, including one that makes it crime for business owners to voluntarily help federal agents find and detain unauthorized workers and another that creates a state inspection program for federal immigration detention centers.

The Trump administration went to federal court earlier to invalidate the state laws, claiming they blatantly obstruct federal immigration law and thus violate the Constitution's supremacy clause, which gives federal law precedence over state measures. That case is pending. Los Alamitos leaders voted Monday to file an amicus brief to the Justice Department's lawsuit.

Quote:Though California is deep blue overall, there remain many pockets that support Trump and his hard-line stance on illegal immigration. Last month, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution saying the county is not a sanctuary jurisdiction.

Quote:Some immigration enforcement hawks hope Los Alamitos will be a bellwether.

"Perhaps it could be the leader. We are heartened that body politics is taking an action that supports federal laws," said Robin Hvidston, executive director of We the People Rising, a Claremont organization that lobbies for stricter immigration enforcement.

Hvidston said she hopes that if Los Alamitos and other cities stand against the sanctuary laws, the U.S. Department of Justice will step in to help.

"We're just calling on the federal government to stand up on behalf of the city," she said.

There's still some patriots in Commiefornia.

LOL.

I thought that state laws shouldn't be nullified or contravened by municipalities.

(03-20-2018 09:56 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  LOL.

I thought that state laws shouldn't be nullified or contravened by municipalities.

Unconstitutional laws should be nullified.

(03-20-2018 09:56 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  LOL.

I thought that state laws shouldn't be nullified or contravened by municipalities.

LOL.

I thought you said they should be

(03-20-2018 09:56 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  LOL.

I thought that state laws shouldn't be nullified or contravened by municipalities.

Nor should federal laws be nullified by individual, rogue States.

Immigration policy is a federal issue, not open to the whim and fancy of idiots in one place here, another there.

Get in line like all the good folks I’ve known, then we’ll talk.

Jumping a rusty fence doesn’t make you a citizen. Anywhere.