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Residents urge Garden Grove council to adopt protections for immigrants; city attorney outlines legal limits
Summary
Multiple residents asked the council to reaffirm non‑cooperation with ICE and adopt sanctuary-style protections. City attorney and staff said Garden Grove is a general law city with limited authority over federal operations and confirmed local police do not perform immigration enforcement.
Dozens of Garden Grove residents used the council's oral communications period to press elected officials for city-level steps to protect immigrants from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
Speakers asked the council to publicly reaffirm non-cooperation policies with ICE, adopt a "safe/welcoming" city resolution, fund legal defense, provide "know your rights" training and require public reporting when ICE operates locally. "The limitation isn't the law, it's the will," one speaker said,…
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