This morning in downtown Los Angeles, protesters called for the city council to pass an ordinance preventing the city from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, officially making LA a sanctuary city. This comes a year and a half after the council passed a motion saying that an ordinance must be drafted within 60 days.

“This ordinance has been languishing in the City Council for two years,” said Felipe Carceres, campaign coordinator for the Service Employees International Union.

“(The city needs to) make sure that undocumented workers know that the city of LA is a place where we’re not going to work with ICE on anything.”

The march went from Pershing Square to City Hall.

The march comes just five days after the election of Donald Trump, who promised to do it deport millions of undocumented immigrants living in the country and the review of the refugee resettlement program.

Maria, a high school teacher who works for the Los Angeles Unified School District, was at the protest and said that in recent days, students have asked her if ICE could show up at their school and about the possibility that they could see their own their family members are deported.

“It’s a very difficult place to be because we don’t have answers,” said Maria, who asked that LAist withhold her last name because of job security concerns.

On Friday, former LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell was confirmed by the city council as LA’s new police chief. Immigrant rights activists took the opportunity to raise concerns about whether the police department will cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). McDonnell said he would not.

Read more about the confirmation from LAist’s Frank Stoltze here.