Louis DeSipio, UC Irvine professor of political science and Chicano/Latino studies, said Santa Ana has a long history of activism and “a much more heterogeneous electorate where even the U.S. citizen voters have non-citizen family members” as compared to the rest of Orange County. And these residents encourage local elected officials to “respect immigrant rights and use the power that they have as the city council of Santa Ana to protect immigrant rights.” He added that a sanctuary city designation has always been “more of a symbolic thing than a substantive thing.”

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