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So far, and it's early, the meeting is much tamer than the last go round. It started off interestingly with Jess Nieto pegging the whole thing to politics, saying Councilman David Couch is using this issue to burnish his conservative credentials for a run at the Board of Supervisors, for Ray Watson's seat. Watson hasn't said he's retiring but everyone pretty much assumes it. Couch's resolutions would make Bakersfield a non-sanctuary city, declare English the official language and find which services can be denied to illegal immigrants. Anyway, then Mayor Harvey Hall lectured everyone in the audience to behave themselves. And, SIGH, so far they are! Hmmm. Ed Herrera points out that declaring Bako a non-sanctuary city would mean police would have to enforce immigration laws. If that's true, that could be a problem. I mean, don't they have enough to do? What about the FEDS! (The City Attorney says it wouldn't have any affect on local policing.) Ok wait a minute, one speaker is...
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