Orange County Supervisors battled against themselves this week, with the panel’s three Democratic members narrowly voting down calls from the panel’s pair of Republican members to settle a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit centered around alleged noncitizen voting.

The county’s chief election official has refused to hand over certain unredacted data federal investigators are looking for – a move backed up by a narrow Democratic majority.

Federal immigration enforcement issues continue to dominate many city halls across Orange County as different cities take different stands on responding to heightened federal immigration sweeps across the region.

Santa Ana officials are renewing their immigration defense legal fund with $250,000, months into widespread deportation sweeps. Costa Mesa of

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