VENTURA, Calif.—On June 26th, the Ventura City Council passed the care policy 6 to 1 to protect undocumented immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, and those seeking reproductive healthcare. “Bundling all these unrelated and controversial issues of immigration, gender identity and abortion, it divides our community rather than unites it. These are deeply personal issues,” said Ventura City Councilman Jim Duran.
Councilman Jim Duran was the lone "no" vote on The Care Policy. “These are things that you deal with at the state and federal level. If you want to change policy, if you want to change a law, that's where you do it. You don't do it at the city level,” said Duran. With the Trump administration threatening to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities and states, Duran says this vote puts a target on Ventura, even though it is mostly symbolic. “Every protection that was listed in that resolution already exists under California law. And so restating them at the city level adds nothing legally enforceable. It's only symbolic,” said Duran. Duran says they could lose loans and grants amounting to over $100 million dollars. “We need to fix roads. We need to fix sidewalks. We need to deal with the homeless situation here, economic vitality,” said Duran. A Ventura woman who moved to the U.S. from Australia says losing funding is only going to hurt the people who live here. “We don't have oodles of extra money to just splash around on things. So. Refocusing city Council on the business side as well as the human side is equally as important in my view,” said Kelly Wilmer. When the policy passed back in June, most attendees appeared to be in favor of the policy. As for the potential loss of funding, the courts may back states like California. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in June that blocked the trump administration from withholding transportation funds over immigration policy.
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