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L.A. County voting yesterday to declare a state of emergency,

specifically a state of immigration emergency,

and it gives them a whole host of authorities.

And we need to know exactly what those are.

KFI's Michael Monks joins us from the KFI newsroom.

Was this a plan thing?

This kind of just kind of jumped on the radar screen.

It's not something that was talked about really.

And now all of a sudden a state of emergency.

Very dramatic, Michael Mons.

The board has been talking about various options to assist illegal immigrants who are here in the community.

There are many in Los Angeles County.

And in fact, they've

already taken multiple steps to assist folks who they say are impacted by immigration enforcement

efforts by the federal government here in Los Angeles County. We're talking about making access

to benefits like food access or even some monetary assistance for rent. All of this stuff has already been enacted,

but some on the board suggested that they needed to declare a state of emergency because in

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