Los Angeles County considers creating ICE-free zones

Editor’s note: This story has been updated since its initial publication to include a comment from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

(The Center Square) – Los Angeles County is considering designating ICE-free zones as a response to the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

The proposal comes from Los Angeles County Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis, who sit on a board that governs the county. The plan is for an ordinance to be drafted and brought before the board in 30 days.

Speaking during Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Horvath said, “Our federal government is killing its own citizens” in broad daylight and in front of witnesses and cameras.

“People have been shot; people have been killed; families have been shattered,” said Horvath.

One of those people was Renee Good, a mother of three who was shot and killed last week by an ICE agent in Minnesota.

The Trump administration says Good hit the ICE agent with her vehicle and that the agent a...