{"id":783047,"date":"2026-05-09T00:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783047\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:06:19","slug":"chula-vista-mayor-does-not-support-el-cajon-immigration-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783047\/","title":{"rendered":"Chula Vista Mayor Does Not Support El Cajon Immigration Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chula Vista Mayor John McCann, a Republican, said on Friday he does not support a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/el-cajon-trump-aligned-think-tank-sues-california-attorney-general\/4017552\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">lawsuit filed last week<\/a> by the city of El Cajon seeking to overturn California\u2019s immigrant sanctuary law. The law prohibits cooperation with immigration enforcement efforts except with people convicted of violent crimes. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, spearheaded by El Cajon Mayor Bill Wills, also a Republican, argues that California\u2019s sanctuary policy limiting local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities forces cities to violate either federal or state law when deciding whether to assist federal agents.<\/p>\n<p>Local Democratic politicians assailed the El Cajon lawsuit after the city filed it. Until now, observers wondered whether other San Diego-area Republican leaders would join in supporting the suit.<\/p>\n<p>McCann, who has come under fire in his city for recusing himself from votes on a recent local sanctuary policy, said in response to questions from Voice of San Diego he \u201cdefinitely would not support a similar legal action [to El Cajon\u2019s] in Chula Vista.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic safety is always the most important issue for me, and the Chula Vista Police Department does an excellent job at keeping our city safe\u2026within the guidelines of state law,\u201d McCann said.<\/p>\n<p>McCann did not go so far as to offer blanket support for all unauthorized immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, he took pains to clarify that \u201cI voted for Chula Vista to become a welcoming city for legal immigrants. Immigrants and their families want violent criminals, rapists and pedophiles out of their neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chula Vista Mayor John McCann, a Republican, said on Friday he does not support a lawsuit filed last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":783048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,118795,1582,276,5410,409,26781,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-783047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bill-wells","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-ice","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-john-mccann","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116541704586851000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783047","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=783047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}