Amika's Blog

Describe the community in which your CP operates… is it a city, a town, a rural area? What kind of mayor does the community have? Does your CP have any interaction with local government officials? My community partner is San Bruno Mountain Watch which operates in the city of San Bruno. San Bruno is a small city located on the peninsula of San Francisco which is close to San Mateo. The mayor of San Bruno is Jim Ruane and he is on his second term as mayor in the city. He has served as a council member since 1995. San Bruno Mountain Watch does work closely with the cities government officials such as the mayor but also the citizens that lives in the town as well. The CP needs to keep connections with San Bruno's government officials for the protection of the San Bruno Mountains.    

Since California is mainly a democratic state, they use their power to preserve state and local values in the face of conflicting Federal policies in many ways. Recently while researching I've noticed an article that stated that San Francisco is suing President Trump over executive order targeting sanctuary cities. San Francisco is suing the Trump administration because they are violating the states rights in the U.S Constitution. The reason why the city is suing is because the Trump administration started issuing orders to put counties and cities on notice that they will loss federal funding if they do not start cooperating with immigration officials/agents. California as a state alone is very liberal and very protective over immigrants that are in this state illegally and if they do not comply, they would lose federal funding. Federal funding usually covers health care, programs for the poor, etc. California knows that this is avery wrong thing and it violates the rights that the...