Across the country, cities and states have been grappling with how to resist the Donald Trump administration’s escalating and increasingly violent mass deportation raids. Some have moved to ban masks and bar local law enforcement from helping federal agents. Others have hinted at prosecution for federal agents who violate the law and looked to bar them from entering certain types of locations.

In California, Los Angeles County is poised to respond in a potentially more effective way: with an eviction moratorium.

Momentum for a countywide eviction moratorium has been building in LA for the past few months, ever since the Trump administration drastically ramped up Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids there this past June, leading to scenes of chaos and violence on American streets. Now thanks to pressure from local tenant unions and immigrant rights groups, it’s on the verge of becoming law, if the county board of supervisors votes it through in the coming weeks.