Port Police: Immigration Status and Residents Foreign-Born

port police: Los Angeles champions inclusiveness and tolerance, and welcomes everyone who seeks to realize their dreams and build their families here, regardless of national origin or immigration status, Garcetti's directive said, according to Metro News. Immigrants are the engine of the Los Angeles economy, with nearly two out of three residents foreign-born or children of immigrants, Garcetti said. An executive directive asks the fire chief and chiefs of the airport and port police to follow the Police Department's decades-old policy of not investigating individuals solely to determine their immigration status. The directive bars any city employee from co-operating with the enforcement of federal civil immigration laws or allowing use of city money or resources for such enforcement unless legally required to do so. Jails and police agencies around the U.S. have opted in recent years not to co-operate with immigration authorities, in some cases citing federal court rulings that immigrants cannot be held in those jails strictly because of their immigration status. Additionally, workers cannot give federal immigration agents special access to any city facility unless legally required to do so. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.