The city of Los Angeles is one step closer to becoming a so-called "sanctuary city" after the L.A. City Council voted unanimously on the measure which had been championed by mayor Karen Bass who wrote a draft ordinance a few days back. The measure will come back to the council for a second vote as a formality.
Los Angeles now joins more than a dozen other cities in the country that take part of the ordinance which bars city resources from being used for immigration enforcement and city departments from sharing information on people without legal status with federal immigration authorities, key measures in anticipation of potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump.
