Southern California county urged to avoid Trump’s ‘sanctuary’ lawsuit
SANTA ANA — Leaders of Orange County planned Tuesday to consider fighting a state law aimed at protecting immigrants from stepped-up deportations under the Trump administration.
The backlash to the state’s so-called sanctuary law comes a week after the small city of Los Alamitos in Orange County voted to opt out of the policy.
The all-Republican supervisors of the county of 3.2 million people were expected to discuss passing a resolution in support of Los Alamitos and whether to join the U.S. government’s lawsuit over the law, which bars police in many cases from turning over suspects to federal immigration agents for deportation.