Freshly Released From ICE Custody, Local Father Advocates 'Sanctuary State' Policy Outside LASD Headquarters

A day after he was released from the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez - the local father who spent six months in detention after being arrested outside his daughter's Lincoln Heights school - appeared outside the L.A. County Sheriff's Department's Temple Street headquarters on Thursday to speak in support of a bill that would designate California as a "sanctuary state."