In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump saying he would use the military to carry out mass deportations , officials in Los Angeles will meet to vote on an ordinance to formally make the City of Angels a “sanctuary city.”
According to Global Refuge , a nonprofit serving refugees in the U.S. from across the world, generally speaking, a “sanctuary city” is a community with a policy – written or unwritten – that discourages local law enforcement from reporting the immigration status of individuals unless it involves investigation of a serious crime.
The American Immigration Council states that “there is no one clear definition” of what it means for a state or local government to adopt sanctuary policies, as they take many forms (such as prohibiting local law enforcement from enforcing federal immigration law, preventing the construction of immigration detention centers and restricting certain information on immigrants from the federal government, among others.)
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California AB 4 , passed in 2013, designated the Golden State as a sanctuary state; according to the Center for Immigration Studies , local law enforcement agencies need only honor ICE detainers for immigrants who meet a list of criteria, most of which pertaining to violent crimes…