Can you guess how many illegal aliens live in this 'sanctuary county'?
Eight percent of Los Angeles County is illegal. This is where 800,000 illegal aliens out of an estimated 3 million statewide (the real numbers are likely much higher) have been harbored.
And that may be about to change.
In no county and state has the political power of the Democrats been as closely tied to open borders as in Los Angeles County and California. Flipping California convinced the Democrats to tie their national fortunes to mass migration and for a while it seemed to be working.
Biden’s open borders team, from Border Czar Kamala Harris to Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and USCIS director Ur Mendoza Jaddou, were not only Californians, but typical products of its diverse checkbox political class who rejected the idea of national borders.
California deportations had sharply dropped off after the state began implementing pro-illegal and pro-crime laws in 2014, falling from a high of nearly 100,000 to less than 4,000 in 2024. With the California Values Act (SB 54) blocking law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities in place, the first Trump administration struggled to bring deportations up to around 30,000 a year and under Biden deportations effectively disappeared in California.
But the 2024 election may be about to crack the nation’s worst sanctuary state, county and city.
If Kamala had won, she would have been the first White House Democrat from California, but instead California Democrats in the largest illegal alien county in the country are panicking.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors introduced a motion declaring that their 800,000 illegal alien base is “crucial to our economy, workforce and cultural diversity.” The board moved to create a Department of Immigrant Affairs to resist federal immigration policies.
Supervisors Hilda Solis fumed that Trump had created a “deep sense of instability” for illegals while Janice Hahn warned of the past “devastating impact” of enforcing laws on illegal aliens.
LA County is already a ‘sanctuary county’ and bans county sheriffs from turning over illegal alien criminals to federal immigration authorities. The municipality of Los Angeles is also moving to impose a ‘sanctuary city’ law that will ban the LAPD and city officials from cooperating with the federal government. Councilman Bob Blumenfeld, who represents a district with illegal aliens, claimed that LA is “hardening our defenses” in the face of federal immigration enforcement. --->READ MORE HERE
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California has been sanctuary state since 2017 after passage of SB 54
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously last week to become a "sanctuary city," categorically withholding any municipal assistance to federal immigration authorities despite a bevy of illegal immigrants arrested there for violent crimes and even violence against children this year.
The 13-0 vote last Tuesday comes weeks after President-elect Donald Trump's ballot-box victory and in the same year that dozens of illegal immigrants were picked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in the L.A. metro area for murder, homicide and assault against children.
So far this year, Los Angeles ERO has arrested 1,263 illegal immigrants in the metro area so far this year, and 715 of them had criminal convictions, according to ICE data. The agency gathered 19,726 noncitizens between 2021 and 2024, and 7,255 of them, about 36%, had prior criminal convictions.
That includes 26 illegal immigrants with pending charges or convictions for murder, homicide and assault against children who were arrested in the Los Angeles area during a nationwide operation from Jan. 16-28, ICE said.
Among them were one Mexican citizen, 47, who was wanted in his country for human trafficking, specifically recruitment for the purpose of sexual exploitation; a 36-year-old Mexican living in Harbor City and wanted in his home country for homicide committed in connection to a robbery of the victim; and a 39-year-old El Salvadorean who had already been convicted of forcible oral copulation of a victim under 14 years.
"The men and women of ERO Los Angeles are mission-driven and dedicated to the safety of our communities and neighborhoods," ERO Los Angeles acting Field Office Director Ernesto Santacruz wrote in a press release in January. "The outcome of this operation is another example of their continued professionalism, integrity and commitment to safeguard the homeland."
On Feb. 1, the agency apprehended a 27-year-old El Salvador native in Los Angeles after he had been convicted in a U.S. court of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old and possession of child pornography. --->READ MORE HERE
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