(ProsperNews.net) – A California city has canceled annual identity festivities and voted to replace them with a unifying celebration of all residents and their shared background. The City Council of Huntington Beach, one of the few remaining conservative regions of the Golden State, announced it would scrap “heritage and identity commemorations” in 2024 and focus instead on the history of Huntington Beach. In the upcoming year, there will be no Pride Month, no Black History Month, and no Women’s History Month in the city.
Known as a conservative outlier in overwhelmingly liberal California, Huntington Beach has a record of clashing with state authorities. Back in 2018, the city fought the state government in court over its introduction of controversial “sanctuary state” laws, which were instituted as a rebuke to strict migration measures enacted by the Trump administration. SB54 was passed by the state legislature in 2017 and limited the ability of local law enforcement authorities to cooperate with federal immigration agencies.
The Trump administration opposed the law, as well as the Inspection and Review of Facilities Housing Federal Detainees legislation and the Immigrant Worker Protection Act, which were passed the same year.
Several counties, including Orange County and San Diego County, passed local resolutions against the sanctuary state legislation, while Huntington Beach announced a lawsuit against the state government. In July 2018, a district court blocked the application of the Immigrant Worker Protection Act, which prevented employers from giving access to employee records to immigration enforcement authorities, but upheld the other laws.
Last October, the City Council of Huntington Beach came to the attention of the liberal Los Angeles Times, and in an op-ed, the paper appealed to city residents to stop voting conservative. The article, written by former Huntington Beach council members, said the council is out of touch with the people and regularly passes ordinances at odds with public opinion. They also accused the body of “book burning,” authoritarianism, and intolerance.
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