News Flash:\u00a0 Common sense and patriotism are not dead in the state of California.<\/p>\n
First, the city of Los Alamitos voted to denounce California\u2019s sanctuary law when it voted in mid-March to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and hand criminal aliens apprehended by the city over for removal.\u00a0 Citing his pledge to uphold the Constitution of the United States as well as protect the welfare of the citizens of his small Orange County, California, community, Los Alamitos Mayor Troy Edgar explained<\/a> \u00a0that his city is in complete disbelief over what has transpired in Sacramento over their passage of the statewide sanctuary law.\u00a0 \u201cI think we should 100 percent be coordinating and helping out federal agents,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Second, Dave Herrington, the mayor of Aliso Viejo, joined the chorus in publicly challenging the heresy coming out of Sacramento, which Herrington calls<\/a> \u201cunconstitutional.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cSanctuary laws make us less safe,\u201d said<\/a> Herrington, a former Orange County Sheriff.<\/p>\n In another show of support against dangerous sanctuary policies, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens recently made the release dates of jail inmates \u2013 including illegal aliens \u2013 publicly available online.\u00a0 The Sheriff\u2019s Department, which was forced to release 172 inmates back into the county in the last three months because of the state\u2019s shortsighted sanctuary policies, is now taking steps to become part of the solution.\u00a0\u00a0 Don Barnes, Orange County undersheriff, told the Los Angeles Times<\/em> that ICE is now out looking for the released illegal aliens, and “it would be easier for everyone involved and safer for the community and law enforcement if they were relinquished to the custody of ICE rather than returned to the community.”<\/p>\n The open border lobby in Sacramento and their friends in the mainstream media began wondering what in the world could be happening in Orange County \u2013 once a stronghold of Republican politics \u2013 but most recently a county that voted to elect Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 And perhaps more importantly, will this anti-sanctuary contagion spread?<\/p>\n The answer was a resounding yes, and it came just days later when the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted<\/a> to denounce the state\u2019s sanctuary laws.\u00a0 \u00a0The county\u2019s board of supervisors voted unanimously (3-0) to join the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s lawsuit against the state of California.\u00a0 “This legislation prevents law enforcement from removing criminals from our community and is a threat to public safety,” Supervisor Shawn Nelson said prior to the vote.<\/p>\n