not to be dumb but LA is a sanctuary city no matter what trump says, so why are there so many ICE sightings and raids rn?? What can city leadership do to prevent this?
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[Caveat: Not a lawyer.] Not much. "Sanctuary city" status means is that local police will not help ICE. If someone undocumented is stopped by a cop, the cop can't snitch to ICE. But ICE has jurisdiction everywhere, so if the feds want to spend the money, they can do raids themselves everywhere.
My limited understanding: Local government and law enforcement of a sanctuary city don’t cooperate with ice, don’t call them on people, don’t hold people for them, don’t process them in local courts. But they can’t stop a federal organization from their own investigations & utilizing federal courts.
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