Hundreds protest homeless, sanctuary city law outside Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting


Hundreds of people gather outside the Board of Supervisors meeting at the Hall of Administration in Santa Ana on Tuesday, March 27. Orange County supervisors will decide Tuesday whether to rescind their recent vote that could site emergency homeless shelters in Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Laguna Niguel. Many immigration advocates are protesting Supervisor Shawn Nelson’s call to join the DOJ in suing CA about its Sanctuary State law. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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By JORDAN GRAHAM | jgraham@scng.com and ROXANA KOPETMAN | rkopetman@scng.com| Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: March 27, 2018 at 10:27 am | UPDATED: March 27, 2018 at 10:59 am


A crowd of hundreds showed up for the County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday morning, March 27, as the governing panel discussed two hot button issues: homeless camps and sanctuary laws.

Community members had started lining up by 7:30 a.m. to attend the 9 a.m. meeting. More were outside protesting as the meeting got under way.

Related: Watch the live stream of the supervisors’ meeting

Supervisors are expected to decide whether to rescind their recent vote on possibly placing emergency homeless shelters in Irvine, Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel.

Outside the building, those who couldn’t get into the meeting room held signs such as “No tent city in Irvine,” and “Protect our children,” and chanted “No tent city!” A small group of homeless advocates chanted “Love the homeless” back at the crowd.

Word of the supervisors’ plan for creating the tent camps last week prompted crowds of residents to fill city council meetings in Irvine and Laguna Niguel to make their concerns heard.

Residents mobilized quickly on Facebook and in Irvine a protest was held Friday morning.

Officials with WeIrvine, an internet-based business that promotes Irvine to Chinese immigrants and helps them settle in the city, had said previously it was chartering 14 buses to take residents to the county meeting.

Also, two of the supervisors said previously they planned to introduce measures contrary to California’s so-called sanctuary law that range from a county resolution similar in spirit to the ordinance passed in Los Alamitos defying the law, to filing a lawsuit against the state.

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/2...isors-meeting/