I thought that was Santa Monica?...Santa Ana?....
The L.A. Council did order the LAPD not to cooperate with the INS, when, for example, they arrested an illegal alien for committing a crime...
Santa Ana is now "majority latino" (actually majority illegal alien) and has debated giving illegals the vote ("we must be inclusive, and after all, they must live under our ordinances---shouldn't they be able to vote for the Council members?")
Santa Monica (I believe) declared itself to be a haven for "the homeless", which resulted in a gigantic colony of bums in the parks and the lawn in front of City Hall, publicly urinating and defecating, and so on. I think they eventually reversed their decision...over Martin Sheen's "dead body".
--Boris
I recall that they did that also. I can't remember exactly when they did that sanctuary resolution thing other than it was in the late 1980's, but I sure remember some of the Council members, such as Joel Wachs, backtracking like crazy before they finally passed another resolution recinding it because of the uproar it caused.