A California judge has dismissed the federal government’s legal challenge to Los Angeles’s sanctuary city ordinance that restricts the use of city resources to assist federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin of the Central District of California said the federal government failed to support its claim that the city’s ordinance violates the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity. But the judge stated that the government could file an amended complaint.
“The Ordinance does not directly regulate the federal government. Rather, it ‘controls the actions of [the City’s] own agents and agencies,” the judge stated in a five-page order dated June 20. …