What a wonderful gift for Thanksgiving Day, to realize that the majority of our City Council do believe in the principles on which our nation was founded! I thought I heard the Pilgrims rejoicing, and the Statue of Liberty smiled and cheered for hours, to know that Los Angeles was a City of Sanctuary.
Let us not be too critical of INS authorities for their muddled testimony. They are under orders to discriminate against refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala; that is why only 2 1/2% of those fleeing those two countries are granted asylum, compared to the average of 31% from all lands.
