Posted on 11/23/2024 4:12:33 AM PST by CFW
The City of Los Angeles declared itself a sanctuary city in advance of the second Trump presidency, which would bar city cooperation with immigration enforcement and providing of immigrant data to the federal government.
However, the city’s fiscal weakness combined with its reliance on federal funding for migrant services could leave it short on funds if Trump withholds federal funding to compel deportation compliance.
The city’s new ordinance — passed unanimously by city council — prohibits the use of city resources from being used for immigration enforcement or cooperating with federal authorities engaged in immigration enforcement. The ordinance also bans the direct and indirect sharing of data with federal immigration authorities.
“More than one out of three people who live in Los Angeles, including my own parents, are immigrants. One in ten [LA residents] are undocumented,” said Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez in a statement. “We refuse to stand by and let Donald Trump deport our neighbors, family, friends, and coworkers.”
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The City of Los Angeles received $22 million earlier this year from FEMA for migrant services, just one funding source among many, and non-inclusive of other federal grants to non-government organizations and other groups that provide benefits for migrants.
With the city described as “broke” by the city controller and now having to borrow $80 million to make court-ordered lawsuit payments, it’s unclear how the city can afford migrant services on its own if the Trump administration decides not to continue federal funding for migrant services.
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22 millions to LA from FEMA for migrant services as NC citizens freeze to death while living in tents. Media shrugs.
This needs to stop. If this is what California voters want, let them pay for it.
Same with Denver.
NO FEDERAL FUNDING for illegals — or for your roads — unless you cooperate.
Shut down the cash spigot = control.
Follow Hugo around. It seems that everyone Hugo knows is an illegal alien.
well then not federal funds period
LA.... Liberal Azzholes
No federal funds period, for anything. States need to take of themselves.
It sounds like your friends are America’s enemies. And you are helping them to remain behind America’s lines and steal resources from America.
What does this make you Hugo?
It sounds like Hugo may be an illegal. Present your papers Hugo!
Yes.
This is too easy.
This is akin to a Roadrunner cartoon where Wile E. Coyote is hanging from a cliff by a thread and the Roadrunner is smiling above him an a ledge with the scissors.
“The City of Los Angeles received $22 million earlier this year from FEMA for migrant services,...”
And THIS is why AMERICANS are suffering in NC and TN from the hurricane - criminals and their spawn are sucking America dry with the help of traitors in charge.
Cut off all funding for any kind of *migrant* services.
If people want to help illegals and gang and cartel members, they can do it out of their own pocket with their own personal funds.
Sounds like the kid who leaves home for her independence but writes asking for money.
I can’t wait to wave “goodbye” to ALL illegal alien invaders...ALL.
Right, how can US taxpayers be expected to fund sanctuary cities that want to break the law?
Like Elon said - a target rich environment for the DOGE.
Hugo Soto-Martinez, the Real American.
Funny how he uses American law to claim he has the right to make laws over us, but rebels and says he refuses to comply with federal law when it upsets him.
Funny that.
Paging Snake Plissken... your services will soon be required.
CA and the other blue sanctuary cities and states have absolutely NO right to demand tax dollars from the rest of the country to support their legal defiance.
Immigration law is the sole purview of the federal government and this has been tested at least 5 times (prob more) in the SC.
So it is simple- these mayors and governors are BREAKING THE LAW. All the gas and bravado may give them points with at the cocktail party, but it won’t give them a win. I’m sure that some of them actually know this.
NO. KIDDING.
Who ever thought fantasy would become reality? It’s the same with “Idiocracy”.
Deny all federal funds to sanctuary cities and where it fits, sanctuary states.
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