The Los Angeles City Council considers a series of proposals aimed at protecting immigrants from President Trump’s planned crackdown.
Among the five proposals introduced by Hugo Sotomartinez and other city council members on Tuesday, it is possible for companies to report to the city of immigration measures in the federal workplace, including raids and audits.
One proposal is looking for a “Know your rights” campaign to notify the residents of LA about immigration protection, and the third non -profit legal service provider, like Trump, some Muslims. It provides space to prepare the ban from visitors from the country, implemented in 2017 and pledged to recover in his second term.
The measures are taken by Los Angeles, even if Los Angeles faces the Trump’s threat to avoid the federal fund, including the rescue funds needed to recover from the catastrophic wildfire last month, has a city -friendly policy that is friendly to the city. You will double.
This proposal instructs the city official to identify $ 540,000, and provides three -month funding to the immigration legal service provider, which has been supported by the Trump administration. They also support foreign laws, call for states’ laws, and increase funds for immigration legal representatives facing deposits and defends.
“This law sends a clear message. Los Angeles does not join Trump’s non-humanized agenda,” said Soto-Martínez. “We will fight back and protect the community.”
The Trump administration has threatened to punish them if they rejected the city controlled by Los Angeles, Chicago, and other Democrats with a large -scale expulsion of abroad and refused to cooperate with the president’s anti -immigrant agenda. Ta.
The proposal will come after Mayor Karen Bus signed in December. Sanctuary city law It is prohibited from city employees and resources from being involved in the execution of federal immigration, and has established a policy established by her predecessor, Eric Garcetti.
Since its second term, Trump has issued a rapid increase in presidential orders targeting immigrants and sanctuary.
One of Trump’s first day’s order was to block the federal officials to block funds for other jurisdictions that do not cooperate with immigration execution, and expose the rescue of the Japanese fire.
The Ministry of Justice also instructed the Federal Prosecutor Investigate A state or local officials that interfere with the president’s immigration plan. Sean Duffy, a new secretary of Trump, issued a threatening order last week. We will refrain from transporting funds from the jurisdiction of the sanctuary。
Trump has a long history of racism and foreign disgust, and “Mexico immigrants”RapeImmigration is “Poison the blood of our country“In his second phase, he promised” the largest expulsion of the United States in American history. “
Soto Martinez, a supporter of LA’s sanctuary city law, chairman of the Immigration, fairness, and civil rights committee on the Council, said, “Take my work and me to the school,” his parents are not documented. He said that he has built our lives without the constant fear of being able to go.
“All Angeleno deserves the same safety and dignity,” he said.
The support of immigrants remains strong in California More immigrants than other states。 The Immigration Community is concentrated on a large blue county like Los Angeles, which was more than twice the vote of Trump in November in November.
According to the USC Equitis and Institute, more than 60 % of LA County are born or at least one immigrant parent, and about 800,000 in the county lack legal status. Ta.