Councilors approve that Los Angeles be a Sanctuary City
In the face of President-elect Donald Trump's plans to undertake mass deportations, council members voted to declare Los Angeles a Sanctuary City that prohibits city staff from collaborating with federal immigration authorities for the purposes of arresting undocumented immigrants. The motion had been introduced by councilors Hugo Soto Martínez, Nithya Raman and Eunisses Hernández in 2023, but given the victory of President Donald Trump, they had to work in an emergency to approve it. Although the city of Los Angeles is home to 1.3 million immigrants, more than 34% of the population, under municipal law it was not a Sanctuary City. Los Angeles was designated a Sanctuary City by former Mayor Eric Garcetti through an executive order, but it was a purely symbolic m...
