CALIFORNIA/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [3-28-18] extolled a major California county for joining his administration’s legal challenge to the state’s new limits on how much local police and sheriff’s departments support his rigorous deportation policy. ‘My Administration stands in solidarity with the brave citizens in Orange County defending their rights against California’s illegal and unconstitutional Sanctuary policies,’ Trump wrote in a tweet. The Justice Department had earlier welcomed the decision by California’s third largest county to join its lawsuit challenging the ‘sanctuary state’ law, officially known as SB 54, that Democratic-governed California enacted late last year. The Orange County board of supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday [3-27-18] evening to link arms with the administration.”
-Lisa Lambert, “Trump ‘stands in solidarity’ with Orange County on California sanctuary law,” Reuters, Mar. 28, 2018 5:23am