CALIFORNIA/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “San Diego County leaders on Tuesday [4-17-18] began debating whether to join the Trump administration’s court challenge to a California law limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, amid a conservative backlash to the so-called sanctuary movement. Approval by the Republican-controlled Board of Supervisors in California’s second-largest county, one that shares a border with Mexico, would follow similar action last month by Orange County, the state’s third-most-populous county, in voting to support the anti-sanctuary suit. The city of San Diego ranks as California’s second-biggest municipality and with the adjacent Mexican city of Tijuana comprises the largest cross-border metropolitan area shared between the United States and Mexico. Like their Orange County counterparts, all five San Diego County supervisors are Republicans. One of them was absent from Tuesday’s packed public hearing, and it was unclear whether he would take part in a closed-session vote on the proposal later in the day.”
-Jennifer Mcentee, “San Diego County may join Trump challenge to California ‘sanctuary’ law,” Reuters, April 17, 2018 11:49 am