Third in a series.

Re: “The Law Comes First for Clarke”

He is polite as usual and sensitive, too, but Mayor Jim Clarke is having a difficult time agreeing to officially, in headline style, brand Culver City as a sanctuary city.

A group is pounding drums to formally crown the community a sanctuary city that will ignore the law in deference to illegal aliens, as the government calls them.

Their case comes up at the March 27 meeting of the City Council, and the group cannot count on Mayor Clarke as an ally.

“Call it whatever you want to call it,” he said. “But at the end of the day, calling this a sanctuary city will be more of a symbolic statement than any kind of change in our policy.

“I don’t think we are going to change our policy one bit.”

Mr. Clarke said that his Council colleagues and others “can do more education and outreach to the community so they can understand what our policy is.

“I would support the idea of a community meeting with the Police Dept. being there.”

Then came the mayor’s “however” moment.

“At the end of the day,” Mr. Clarke said, “I don’t see any particular change in our policy. If you want to call that a sanctuary city…”

(To be continued)