COUNTY : Group to Ask County to Become Sanctuary
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Orange County should become an official sanctuary for refugees from war-torn Central America countries, a Quaker group said last week.
The Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Orange County Friends Meeting (Quakers) said it will ask the county Board of Supervisors to place the idea on the agenda in September.
However, David A. Munro, spokesman for the group, said the Quakers realize that probably not a single supervisor would vote to make the county a sanctuary.
Munro said the idea was in response to an Orange County-based group seeking a crackdown on illegal immigrants. That group, initiated by Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Harold Ezell, is called Americans for Border Control.
Munro said that seeking to make Orange County an official sanctuary for refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala is “a better way” to rebut Ezell and Americans for Border Control.
Ezell, contacted for comment, called the pro-sanctuary effort “a tragic thing” and accused the City of Santa Ana of already being “the undeclared capital of illegal aliens.”
Times staff writers Steve Emmons, Bill Biliter and Jeffrey A. Perlman compiled the Week in Review stories.
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