Los Angeles Formally Declares Itself a ‘City of Sanctuary’
POSTED 2:50 PM, FEBRUARY 8, 2019, BY LOS ANGELES TIMES, UPDATED AT 06:39PM, FEBRUARY 8, 2019
It took nearly a year and a half, but officials voted Friday to declare Los Angeles a “city of sanctuary,” long after other left-leaning cities took a similar stand against the Trump administration’s policies toward immigrants who lack legal status.
The Los Angeles City Council voted 12 to 0 to approve a symbolic resolution that elected officials first proposed in September 2017.
At the time, Councilman Gil Cedillo and Council President Herb Wesson called the proposal a response to President Trump’s plan to unwind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.
But their resolution sat in committee for months. Critics questioned whether they would turn their press conference rhetoric into an actual label for an immigrant-rich city.
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We do not want to have a thirty foot wall on our Southern Border to represent who we are, but rather our Statue of Liberty.
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