California bill seeks to limit detention of arrestees facing deportation

Los Angeles Times ^ | January 28, 2012 | Paloma Esquivel

[artichokegrower]

A bill being drafted by a state legislator would limit local law enforcement from holding arrestees on behalf of immigration authorities seeking to deport them.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) said he is finalizing amendments to a bill that would be the first statewide measure to counter the Secure Communities enforcement program, which requires law enforcement agencies to forward to immigration authorities the fingerprints of all arrestees booked into local jails.

[artichokegrower]

"States have their own ways of fighting back," Ammiano said. "We can't stand by and let innocent people, food vendors, etc., be caught up in sweeps, assume they're guilty of some violent offense and then deport them and separate them from their families."

So here is a state acting in opposition to federal law concerning immigration issues. Come on Eric Holder sue California as you did Arizona when that state took similar action.

[Steely Tom]

Put a fence around California.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This leaves adjacent states little choice but to again reopen their mandatory plant inspection stations on the California border, with the additional authority that if they believe individuals in vehicles are not legal citizens, that they be detained.

And, of course, to interdict any diseased plants or insects.

The bottom line is that, since California invites problems, then California, not its neighbors, should suffer the consequences of the problems it creates.

[ridesthemiles]

Ammiano needs to go back to supporting his fudge-packing buddies.