by Ben Whedon
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted in favor of declaring an emergency over the Trump administration’s immigration raids in the area.
The 4-1 vote came as federal law enforcement continues to target illegal aliens in the Los Angeles area, The Associated Press reported. The city was the site of major anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) riots earlier this year, which led the Trump administration to deploy the National Guard.
Supervisor Janice Hahn said that “[w]e have residents afraid to leave their homes, we have constituents contacting my office because their family members never came home and they don’t know if they’ve been taken by ICE or where they’ve been take.”
“We have entire families who are destitute because their fathers or mothers have been taken from their work places and they have no way to pay their rent or put food on their table,” she added.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., and LA City Mayor Karen Bass have been among the most high-profile critics of the immigration crackdown, though they have thus far done little to dissuade the administration from its current policy.
In August, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that federal law enforcement arrested more than 5,000 illegal immigrants. Among these illegal immigrants, law enforcement arrested rapists, gang members, murderers, and child sex offenders, the DHS stated. DHS started this operation in June.
“Families protected. American taxpayers spared the cost of their crimes AND the burden of their benefits. Thank you to our brave law enforcement officers. Make no mistake: if you are here illegally, we will find you, arrest you, and send you back. This is just the beginning,” Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem stated.
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Ben Whedon is a reporter for Just the News. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
