Welcome to Maywood, Where Roads Open Up for Immigrants. The mostly Latino city’s council wants it to be a sanctuary. Some warn about ‘testing the limits.’ California

Posted on: March 21st, 2006
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“At a time when communities across the nation are considering efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, one small city south of downtown Los Angeles is charting a different course.

In Maywood, where 96% of the residents are Latino, and more than half are foreign-born, the City Council has vowed to make the municipality a “sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants, and over the last few months it has set out to prove it.”

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