The immigration war between the Trump administration and the officials in California ended with the round of 150 arrested people. Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, keep her promise to the people. She alerted residents that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would be conducting their operation in Oakland. She urged undocumented people to be cautious.
Oakland declared itself a sanctuary city in order to combat Trump’s immigration crackdown. The resident of Oakland are in awe by their mayor’s actions and praised her for the warn.
But this isn’t the first Mayor Libby Schaaf, has been a real one. In a CBS articled posted January 17th, 2018 the Mayor said she’d go to jail if needed to in protest of the ICE raids.
When asked if she were willing to go to jail to defend those policies, Schaaf answered emphatically “Yes!”
Thomas D. Homan was not happy with Mayor Scaaf announcement. Homan express that Mayor Scaaf decision to exposed ICE operation increased the risk of his officers and alerted “criminal aliens”. He called her decision reckless.
Scaaf stood by her decision stating that she was just giving her residents time to learn of their rights and know their legal options. "It was my intention that one mother, or one father, would use the information to help keep their family together. do not regret sharing this information. It is Oakland's legal right to be a sanctuary city and we have not broken any laws. We believe our community is safer when families stay together," she said in a statement.
To find out more on the story check out these links:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/01/17/oakland-bans-cooperation-federal-immigration-agents-braces-for-ice-raids/
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-oakland-mayor-ice-20180228-story.html
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