JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville City Council failed to override Mayor Donna Deegan\u2019s veto of an immigration-related bill.<\/p>\n
The vote was 8 to 7, not enough to override the veto and it came hours after Mayor Deegan announced she opposed the bill that would have blocked tax payer money from being given to organizations that provide services to undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n
The bill included some exceptions, including for medical services provided by UF Shands, services for victims of labor and sex trafficking, children\u2019s services, and services provided to active military members and pregnant women.<\/p>\n
The bill also specified that organizations would have to \u201cknowingly\u201d provide services or distribute funds to someone in the country illegally to be considered in violation.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Mayor Deegan said the bill had many issues.<\/p>\n \u201cIt creates legal risk and makes our city a target for constitutional challenges and costly lawsuits,\u201d said Deegan. \u201cThis ordinance compromises public health and public safety.\u201d <\/p>\n She also said the bill does not make Jacksonville a sanctuary city and that the city follows all immigration law.<\/p>\n But Council Member Rory Diamond disagrees.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mayor essentially choose to put out a big sign that says Jacksonville is going to be a sanctuary city,\u201d said Diamond.<\/p>\n Now Diamond said these are his next steps.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will just put the same language in the budget in about a month and we only need 10 votes for that,\u201d said Diamond. \u201cWe will still not be spending any money.\u201d<\/p>\n The city\u2019s budget needs to be approved by the city council and the mayor by Sep. 30.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville City Council failed to override Mayor Donna Deegan\u2019s veto of an immigration-related bill. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[11030,12189,13822,13826,13820,5229,13816,13823,13817,6283,13825,13815,3188,723,13821,13819,7310,425,12176,7047,13824,13827,13818,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-13057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action","9":"tag-action_news","10":"tag-alexis","11":"tag-alexis_clevinger","12":"tag-alexis_covinger","13":"tag-america","14":"tag-ben_becker","15":"tag-chandler","16":"tag-chandler_morgan","17":"tag-council","18":"tag-diamond","19":"tag-donna_deegan","20":"tag-fl","21":"tag-florida","22":"tag-hall","23":"tag-jackson","24":"tag-jacksonville","25":"tag-local","26":"tag-mayor","27":"tag-republican","28":"tag-rory_diamond","29":"tag-shacks","30":"tag-taneka","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-united-states-of-america","33":"tag-unitedstates","34":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","35":"tag-us","36":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114743122724368208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}