Posted on 05/13/2018 1:45:46 PM PDT by doug from upland
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to a bill that would place strict limits on the disclosure of a person’s immigration status in open court, continuing the sanctuary state’s rebellion against the Trump administration’s illegal immigration crackdown.
Protesters take over Sansome Street in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, to respond to the 150 detentions in Northern California by ICE this past week. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) Protesters take over Sansome Street in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, to respond to the 150 detentions in Northern California by ICE this past week. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) Senate Bill 785 was introduced in response to news reports of ICE agents tracking down undocumented immigrants in courthouses across the country. It takes aim at a tactic that advocates say is keeping many immigrants from testifying in court, reporting crimes or simply showing up to pay a ticket.
“This is about protecting public safety,” said Assemblywoman Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego, one of the bill’s authors, in a statement Thursday. “Our criminal-justice system can’t function if witnesses or victims are afraid to testify out of fear of being deported. You should be able to testify against a murderer or rapist without fearing that you or your loved ones will be thrown out of the country as a result.”
A spokesman with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the agency doesn’t comment on pending legislation.
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Another day, another pro-illegal/LGBT bill from the California State Assembly.
California launching one more attack against the USA!
The A-B-C’s of how to destroy a country.
The California legislature is in a state of insurrection against our constitutional republic.
Damn the courts (looking at you, Sessions). Send in the Marines to arrest the lot of them for sedition.
Lock them up!
If they repeat it enough and believe real hard...still a lie.
California’s separatist movement isn’t really thinking rationally.
Sure some of California’s occupants don’t agree with the rest of the nation, but I’m thinking more in terms of leaving the human race than just leaving the nation.
These people are a throwback to ancient illiterate times.
Lock them up!
So California wants to secede given its policies.
The only reason they want to stay is for their ability to tilt elections in their favor.
I call B S on Gonzalez Fletcher!
This stops the media from pronouncing
That the Arrested person has been deported
Twenty times previously,
Showing what a disaster California
has become due to illegals!
Just another indication that government of California is not of the people, by the people or for the people . . .er unless you are an illegal.
There are many Californians getting sick of it. They just don’t get press and have virtually no representation nor political hope. Most conservative common sense propositions and plurality are shot down by judges or ignored altogether by the California one party system.
Laughing stock. They are way out of line.
The Mexicans are deconstructing the laws of American California in favor of, of course, Mexicans.
It’s all they think of.
That’s what actual nations do: go mad in favor of their people.
Gonzalez Fletcher is not an American. She is rabidly for the people of her nation: Mexico.
We shouldn’t let her make laws for us by claiming that she’s “one of us”.
Time to end this silliness.
” You should be able to testify against a murderer or rapist without fearing that you or your loved ones will be thrown out of the country as a result.”
SAME OLD RHETORIC!. Always “testify against rape and murder”. Why do these leftard clowns have the same speech written? What if the damn illegal IS the rapist and murderer? My idea is just have the citizens act as bounty hunters and apprehend the illegals and you get cash money.
Republicans would be really stupid if they don’t keep reminding voters how the RATs care more about illegals than they do American citizens.
Pound that home each day!
Not the least be surprising.
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