Kudos to these guys for their courage and conviction.
Via Daily Caller:
A small California city has voted to exempt itself from a statewide sanctuary law, making it one of the few jurisdictions to formally reject the state’s resistance to President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.
City council members in Los Alamitos, an Orange County city of about 12,000, voted 4-1 on Monday night to opt out of Senate Bill 54, a law that went into effect Jan. 1 and sharply restricts municipal cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Although the ordinance is likely to be challenged by state officials and immigration groups, its supporters say it sends a clear message that the city is placing public safety over politics.
“This council is looking out for the constituents in our city,” Los Alamitos Councilman Warren Kusumoto said, according to the Orange County Register.
The law, which must pass a second city council vote scheduled for April 16, thrusts Los Alamitos into the national debate over sanctuary jurisdictions. The battle is particularly intense in California, which has emerged as the foremost state-level opponent of Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.