Date: January 9, 2017
For Immediate Release: Contact Robin Hvidston at 909.749.1382

The Chief Executive Officer and the Sheriff are scheduled to report back to the LA County Board of Supervisors on the proposed motion to shield those illegally in LA County from deportation – expending the taxpayers’ dollars. As the county officials promote the breaking of federal immigration laws, the potential impact on federal funding will also be a topic on the agenda.

Citizens who support enforcement of immigration laws plan on attending the meeting in order to voice their stance during the comment segment.

LA County Board of Supervisors
Agenda Item 14
http://bos.lacounty.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=R3RJeRBYt90%3d&portalid=1
“Report by the Chief Executive Officer on recommendations for a Countywide strategy, including specific recommendations from each Department, for protecting immigrant residents, an analysis of the feasibility of creating an Office or Department of Immigrant Affairs to serve and protect all immigrant residents of Los Angeles County, and recommendations on the structure of such an agency and an analysis of the potential funding impacts to the County and potential service impacts to County residents if receipt of Federal funds are conditioned on compliance with current or proposed requirements relating to immigration enforcement; Report by the Superintendent of Schools on an analysis of potential impacts on students, family members, or school employees and recommendations for addressing such impacts; Report by the Sheriff on policies, practices and/or procedures currently in place in the Sheriff’s Department related to immigrant residents and any planned changes in any of these practices, policies and procedures should the President-Elect move to implement mass deportation.”

But citizens who oppose the county strategy will be calling upon the county to focus on American citizens.

“The supervisors should be fighting on behalf of American citizens in the county, not those breaking federal immigration law,” Robin Hvidston, Executive Director of We The People Rising and CA State Coordinator for The Remembrance Project, said. “How much will it cost the county taxpayers to provide legal services to those in the county illegally? Instead of expending county funds to represent those illegally present in the county, the supervisors – should expend tax dollars – to fight on behalf of the burgeoning number of homeless families in the county, unemployed citizens, veterans, U.S. foster children and the disabled citizens. LA County should be focused on helping American citizens.”

Hvidston and concerned citizens of LA County will stage a rally at 8am, before the board meeting, in order to display The Remembrance Project Stolen Lives Quilt banners. The Remembrance Project memorializes American citizens who have been killed by those illegally in the United Stated. http://www.theremembranceproject.org/

“Americans First: helping American citizens in LA County should be the first and the primary objective of the supervisors,” Hvidston said. “It is disappointing to witness elected county officials expending tax dollars to fight on behalf of those breaking federal law rather than the vulnerable and suffering American citizens in the county.”

DATE: Tuesday, Jan 10

TIME: Rally at 8am before the LA County Board of Supervisors’ Meeting, which begins at 9:30am

LOCATION: Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 West Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012