California city sued over anti-sanctuary ordinance
A small California city is being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for voting to completely opt out of the state’s sanctuary law.
Los Alamitos, located within Orange County, has been at the forefront of California’s sanctuary city debate, with the city’s mayor, Troy Edgar, calling out the state government Thursday for “outstepping its boundaries.”
“Our residents are very appreciative of us stepping up,” Edgar told FOX Business’ Trish Regan. “This is a rule of law issue, you know, this is just another example of California outstepping its boundaries here.”
Los Alamitos approved an ordinance on Monday that exempts it from the sanctuary state law, SB 54, which limits cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
“When this item gets up to the Supreme Court, they’ll actually know there are cities within the state that actually don’t agree with the direction that governor [Jerry Brown] is going,” the mayor said.
President Donald Trump called the actions by cities like Los Alamitos a “revolution,” as local governments across the state are growing in opposition to Democratic Governor Brown’s sanctuary city stance.
"If you look at what's happening in California with sanctuary cities — people are really going the opposite way," Trump said in Key West, Florida, as he met with a drug trafficking task force on Thursday. “They don’t want sanctuary cities and there’s a little bit of a revolution going on in California.”
Mayor Edgar said, a former submariner in the U.S. Navy, he took an oath of office to protect the laws stated within the Constitution.
“I almost feel it’s an unlawful order for us to be sitting back contemplating whether we should be following the state on something like national security.”