The proposed California measure, introduced by Republican lawmakers, aims to end the state’s sanctuary law, following what was described as a violent attack on federal immigration agents in Los Angeles earlier this month.
Congressional resolution 98, introduced by Congressional Republican leader James Gallagher (R-East Nicolaus) and Congressman Stan Ellis (R-Bakersfield), calls “a quick ending that blocks enforcement of legal immigration and encourages the governor to take immediate action to restore law and order.”
“Federal officials were violently attacked for working on the streets of Los Angeles, and Gavin Newsom’s policy helped create conditions that allow it to happen,” Gallagher said in a statement. “Newsom’s Sanctuary State Agenda has made it difficult to enforce the law and makes it easier for mobs to take over our city. It’s enough.”
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The measure also argues that California’s sanctuary law “leads in dangerous gaps in communication and coordination between agencies, making it difficult to plan for safe operations and encourages consequential disruptions of those opposed to immigration enforcement.”
The resolution urges immediate measures to improve coordination between the governor, state, local and federal law enforcement agencies.
Democrats in Sacramento have often supported sanctuary policies aimed at protecting the country’s immigrants without permission from deportation.
California has been a sanctuary state since 2017, when former government government Jerry Brown signed the California Value Act.
The resolution could face a difficult battle in the California Legislature, where Democrats hold a supermajority.
Meanwhile, one Socal Community (the prominent Republican base, Huntington Beach) officially declared in January as a “non-Sant-Ari city.”
