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  • Los Angeles passes sanctuary city ordinance to protect immigrants

    11/19/2024 3:04:15 PM PST · by george76 · 53 replies
    NBC ^ | 11/19/2024 | Helen Jeong
    The newly approved ordinance would also prohibit “any city resources, property or personnel from being utilized for any federal immigration enforcement.".. The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday adopted a sanctuary city ordinance that prohibits the use of city resources in immigration enforcement, including cooperating with federal immigration agents as the incoming Trump administration hints at immigration crackdown. The city council passed the motion unanimously to codify the protective measures after City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto and Mayor Karen Bass expedited the draft ordinance last week. Because the measure was passed with an urgency clause, the sanctuary city statute will go...
  • LA Considers Ambitious Proposal To Provide Housing For Every Homeless Person

    03/24/2018 3:23:10 PM PDT · by C19fan · 94 replies
    CBS LA ^ | March 23, 2018 | Staff
    The Los Angeles City Council Friday is considering a motion that would enact a plan to provide housing for every transient in the city, as it continues to grapple with a housing shortage which has spiked rents and sent thousands of people into homelessness. The motion, introduced last month by Councilmen Mike Bonin and Marqueece Harris-Dawson, says there is little evidence that anything is being done to create or improve shelters for the homeless in the city and that a true sense of emergency is needed to deal with the problem.