in World News Largest Illegal Alien County Prepares ‘Resistance’ to Trump
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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.
“The city of Los Angeles will protect all Angelenos,” Mayor Karen Bass claimed. ”Many of the immigrant protections here in Los Angeles have been in place for decades. Today’s action reinforces our commitment to protect our immigrant community and to keep all Angelenos safe.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom had announced a special session to “Trump-proof” California. While the session was heavily hyped, Newsom, a prospective presidential candidate in 2028, used it to plead for money to engage in lawfare against the incoming administration. Newsom’s special session proclamation however made little mention of illegal aliens or resisting deportations.
“We’ve thought about all the possibilities, and have prepared for every one of them and are ready to take action when there’s any unlawful activity,” Attorney General Rob Bonta, who had been expecting a spot in Kamala’s cabinet, boasted that he was preparing for “a full frontal assault on our immigrant communities.” Mostly though he’s preparing to run for governor.