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L.A. braces for Trump's vow of wide deportations
Los Angeles — In Los Angeles, post-election fears of deportation are moving precocious among the estimated 1.3 cardinal documented and undocumented immigrants surviving successful the city.
A store tally by the L.A.-based migrant advocacy radical the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, oregon CHIRLA, is teaching clients astir their rights if they're confronted by national officials.
"I expect Donald Trump, arsenic president successful his 2nd term...they're going to treble down connected cruelty," the group's enforcement director, Angelica Salas, told CBS News.
President-elect Donald Trump's program to deport millions of undocumented migrants was 1 of the cardinal points of his statesmanlike campaign, with Trump often boasting that it would beryllium the largest specified effort successful U.S. history.
Since clinching a 2nd term, he has tapped Tom Homan arsenic a alleged "border czar" to caput up the process. Homan served arsenic acting manager of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement successful Trump's archetypal term. Trump has adjacent indicated helium could effort to deploy the subject to assistance transportation retired deportations.
The Los Angeles City Council earlier this period voted 13-0 to approve an ordinance declaring itself a sanctuary metropolis successful defiance of Trump's plan.
L.A. City Council subordinate Eunisses Hernandez sponsored the measure.
"We can't usage immoderate metropolis resources...to enforce national migration law," Hernandez said. "We cannot usage immoderate of our unit to enforce national migration law, oregon their time. So that means we are not going to beryllium doing the bidding oregon the enactment of national migration departments and agencies to abstracted families."
People successful the assemblage clasp up signs successful enactment of immigrants arsenic the Los Angeles City Council considers a "sanctuary city" ordinance during a gathering astatine City Hall successful Los Angeles, California, connected Nov. 19, 2024.
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L.A.'s enactment echoes that of California, which has been a sanctuary authorities since 2018. Nationwide, determination are much than 600 sanctuary jurisdictions, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
However, the incoming medication seems undeterred.
"I'm sending a connection for the radical who accidental they are going to get successful our way," Homan said this week. "They're going to halt america from doing what we're doing — an interior enforcement operation. I've said 100 times successful the past week: don't transverse that line…don't trial us."
Hernandez says L.A. officials are taking Trump's declarations seriously.
"We would beryllium foolish to underestimate him, to not judge his rhetoric," Hernandez said. "And that's wherefore we are trying to hole alternatively of being caught disconnected guard."
The Washington Post reported this week that Trump is considering punishing sanctuary cities by withholding national backing from states and municipalities that don't cooperate with the deportation plan.
"We besides often deliberation it's conscionable targeting the undocumented, but successful astir families, it's a mixed presumption family," Hernandez said. "So the wounded is not conscionable connected the undocumented individual, but connected their full family."
Andres Gutierrez is simply a CBS News newsman based successful Las Vegas. Most precocious a newsman with CBS News Detroit, Andres brings much than a decennary of award-winning breaking quality reporting and fill-in anchor acquisition crossed respective markets including Kansas City, Missouri and Dallas, Texas. While covering Detroit, helium reported connected large nationalist stories, including the wide shooting astatine Michigan State University, and the historical six-week onslaught by the United Auto Workers. Gutierrez besides played a large relation successful CBS News and Stations' in-depth sum crossed platforms of the trials of James and Jennifer Crumbley - the archetypal parents successful the U.S. to beryllium held criminally liable for a schoolhouse shooting committed by their child. Gutierrez graduated from New York University and is simply a subordinate of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
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