{"id":57731,"date":"2025-11-18T01:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/57731\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:50:08","slug":"local-immigration-resources-are-coming-to-garden-groves-website-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/57731\/","title":{"rendered":"Local immigration resources are coming to Garden Grove\u2019s website \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of \u201ckicking the can down the road,\u201d as Councilmember Joe DoVinh worded it, the Garden Grove City Council is having a know-your-rights resource page created on the city\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal \u2014 recently brought to the dais by Councilmember Ariana Arestegui \u2014 narrowly passed, with Councilmember George Brietigam absent and Mayor Stephanie Klopfenstein and Councilmember Cindy Tran abstaining.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents and activists had been pushing their elected officials <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofoc.org\/2025\/10\/garden-grove-immigration-debate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for months<\/a> to issue a response to local concerns about immigration enforcement activity.<\/p>\n<p>The product of these concerns was a community resolution presented to the dais in late October asking councilmembers to \u201cpromote protection of due process and civil liberties for all\u201d and to post an immigration resources on Garden Grove\u2019s website. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/11\/02\/residents-push-garden-grove-city-council-again-for-immigration-resources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">But before voting on that original resolution<\/a>, council members wanted to tweak the document\u2019s verbiage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this resolution, I don\u2019t see it as an anit-ICE resolution. I reject that notion,\u201d DoVinh said. \u201cI edited it heavily so that it\u2019s not an anti-ICE resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The council\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/agendasuite.org\/iip\/gardengrove\/file\/getfile\/18256\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heavy-handed edits<\/a> stemmed from concerns, several councilmembers said, over fears of potential legal repercussions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, we may be investigated, and indeed, we may lose funding and, indeed, we may be prosecuted. Those are the risks. Helping others always comes with risk,\u201d DoVinh said before the recent deciding vote.<\/p>\n<p>Tran still had some concerns and suggested the council table the vote until some finer details on directions to staff were addressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much is this going to cost the city?\u201d she also asked her colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Tran added she and the mayor have had some discussions about hosting an event in December at a local church to offer free legal services to residents.<\/p>\n<p>More than a third of the city\u2019s 171,000 or so residents are non-citizens, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe harsh and honest reality,\u201d Arestegui\u00a0 said after the vote, \u201cthe reason that there\u2019s so many young people leading the movement is because it\u2019s so many of our parents and our elders that are on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want us to have no misunderstanding here that this is a community-driven effort and it\u2019s our residents that have asked for this, that have been asking for this,\u201d Arestegui said.<\/p>\n<p>DoVinh said constituents could expect to see a resources page posted on the city\u2019s website early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of \u201ckicking the can down the road,\u201d as Councilmember Joe DoVinh worded it, the Garden Grove&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,179,11078,14,1071,23,611,77],"class_list":{"0":"post-57731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-community","13":"tag-garden-grove","14":"tag-immigration","15":"tag-local-government","16":"tag-local-news","17":"tag-orange-county","18":"tag-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}