Officials in Santa Ana – Orange County’s only sanctuary city – are proposing a new law to ban local police officers from working a second job as an ICE agent almost a year since widespread deportation sweeps ramped up in the region.
It comes as a proposed state law – AB 1537 – also looks to prohibit local and state law enforcement officers from moonlighting with ICE, Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal immigration enforcement agencies.
At the 5:30 p.m. city council meeting Tuesday, Mayor Valerie Amezcua and Councilman Phil Bacerra – whose campaigns were heavily supported by the local police union – are calling for staff to prepare a law barring officers from also working immigration related jobs…