THE The January vote was unanimous. Huntington Beach, California, was “a non -sanctuary city for illegal immigration,” said his municipal council.
Thus, local officials of the Redoute Conservative of the County of Orange found rather surprising to note on Friday morning that their city had been included A list of “sanctuary jurisdictions”, “ that, the Ministry of Internal Security, “deliberately and shamefully obstructing the application of federal immigration laws”.
“I have already called someone with the federals and I said that it could not be further away from the truth,” said the mayor of Huntington Beach, Pat Burns, “so let’s turn him back.”
“I would love to know, really, who came with this list,” he added. “It’s very negligent.”
Huntington Beach is one of the more than 600 cities, counties and states that the federal government has accused of protecting “dangerous criminal foreigners”. The list, published Thursday, was mandated by An April executive decree This explicitly threatened the courts of the termination of federal contracts and said that they could even violate the law.
Some of the jurisdictions on the list had actually referred to as sanctuary cities in resolutions Or decrees. Civil servants in other places argued that the sentence “Sanctuary City” did not apply technically, although they were committed to protecting immigrants.
But mixed, there were many counties and cities that openly support efforts to apprehend and expel immigrants, or even actively cooperated with immigration and the application of customs. Managers of other places that had voted massively for President Trump but were far from the front lines of the debate on immigration were simply disconcerted.
