L.A. mayor not rethinking ‘sanctuary city’ policy

Published July 15, 2015 8:01pm ET



Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told the Washington Examiner that high-profile cases such as the murder of San Francisco resident Kate Steinle have not prompted him to revisit his own city’s policy of not automatically turning over illegal aliens wanted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

“It did not cause us to think in a new direction,” he said during an appearance at the National Press Club in Washington on Wednesday.

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