In a unanimous vote, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday instructed housing staff to facilitate a "Know Your Rights" training campaign for all homelessness outreach, interim housing or permanent housing service providers funded by the city.
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Tuesday's motion was introduced by members Monica Rodriguez and Imelda Padilla. Elected officials also requested a report on a plan to distribute red cards, or wallet-sized cards designed to help immigrants understand their rights when approached by immigration officers, as part of regular outreach to people experiencing homelessness.
The cards are expected to be printed in multiple languages.
The Housing Department and city attorney will be tasked with working with immigrant rights groups such as the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights and Central American Resource Center to expand opportunities for homeless individuals to receive legal consultation. Such aid could serve as guidance on immigration status and legal rights, according to a city report.
Elected officials anticipate an increase in federal immigration aids in the city following Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which lifted restrictions of so-called "roving patrols" that a Los Angeles federal judge determined targeted people for deportation based on their race or language.
In a statement shared with City News Service, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the administration would continue conducting its immigration enforcement operations in the area.
"This stay reaffirms what we've always known: Lower court activist judges are trying to impede the president from lawfully carrying out the American people's agenda," she said. "We look forward to full vindication on this front in short order, but in the meantime, the Trump administration will continue fulfilling its mandate to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens."
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called the high court's ruling "un- American" and a danger to working families in the region.
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a statement saying, "Trump's hand-picked Supreme Court majority just became the grand marshal for a parade of racial terror in Los Angeles. This isn't about enforcing immigration laws -- it's about targeting Latinos and anyone who doesn't look or sound like Stephen Miller's idea of an American, including U.S. citizens and children, to deliberately harm California's families and small businesses. Trump's private police force now has a green light to come after your family -- and every person is now a target -- but we will continue fighting these abhorrent attacks on Californians."
Mark Rosenbaum, senior special counsel at the Los Angeles civil rights firm Public Counsel, said the ruling "allows the Trump administration to resume racially discriminatory raids across Los Angeles, giving federal agents license to detain people without evidence or due process simply because of the color of their skin, the language they speak, or the work they do."
"... This fight is not over," he continued. "We will continue pressing our case in court until every person in our communities can live free from fear, with their rights and dignity fully protected."
Writing in concurrence with the court's 6-3 opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said U.S. District Judge Maame Frimpong went too far earlier this summer when she issued temporary restraining orders banning law enforcement from detaining suspected illegal migrants in the area without reasonable suspicion.
"The prospect of such after-the-fact judicial second-guessing and contempt proceedings will inevitably chill lawful immigration enforcement efforts," he wrote.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi called the ruling a "massive victory."
"Now, ICE can continue carrying out roving patrols in California without judicial micromanagement," she wrote on social media.
The high court's order does not halt further proceedings in the case. On Sept. 24, Frimpong will hear arguments on whether to issue a preliminary injunction based on what is expected to be additional evidence presented by plaintiffs.
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