https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/04/californias-sanctuary-law-sb-54-heres-what-it-is-and-isnt/
https://archive.fo/J9Wwg
https://archive.fo/J9Wwg
Senate Bill 54 was introduced during the first day of the 2017 California legislative session as a direct response to President Donald Trump’s stated plan to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities and step up immigration enforcement.
Though aimed at reassuring the state’s vast immigrant community that their lives wouldn’t be upended, the law, also known as the California Values Act, also has become a political rallying point, with candidates on all sides of the immigration debate declaring positions against and for SB54.
The premise of SB54 is that local and state law enforcement authorities may not use resources, including personnel or facilities, to investigate or arrest people for federal immigration enforcement purposes. The law builds on a 2013 state law called the California Trust Act, which prohibited local agencies from holding potentially deportable immigrants for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unless those detainees had been convicted of serious or violent felonies, or misdemeanors that could be classified as felonies.
SB54 doesn’t allow for holds any longer, but it does allow for the transfer of inmates on hundreds of offenses, including assault, battery, sexual abuse and exploitation, rape, crimes endangering children, burglary, robbery, theft, fraud, forgery, a crime resulting in death, gang-related offenses, some domestic violence offenses, drug and weapon-related offenses and felony (but not misdemeanor) driving under the influence convictions.
This article regarding Senate Bill 54 was published on May 4, 2018, date written 5/4 or 4/5
No comments:
Post a Comment