Posted on 07/05/2012 8:15:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - The California Senate on Thursday passed a bill supporters dub the "anti-Arizona" law, which seeks to shield illegal immigrants from status checks by local police and challenges Republican-backed immigration crackdowns in other U.S. states.
The Democrat-led state Senate voted 21 to 13 for the California Trust Act, which blocks local police from referring a detainee to immigration officials for deportation unless that person has been convicted of a violent or serious felony.
The bill has the backing of about 100 immigrant rights groups, police chiefs and mayors.
It has already passed the state Assembly in a 47-26 vote. It will go back to the Assembly for a concurrence vote following the summer recess before heading to Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat.
The measure seeks to create a national model to counter what backers say is racial profiling inherent in the part of Arizona's anti-immigrant law allowed to stand by the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
It also seeks to push back against a federal program called Secure Communities, which shares the same principles as Arizona's law, supporters say.
"Today's vote signals to the nation that California cannot afford to be another Arizona," Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a Democrat who sponsored the measure, said in a statement.
"The bill also limits unjust and onerous detentions for deportation in local jails of community members who do not pose a threat to public safety," he added.
In passing the law, California stands apart from not only Arizona, but also Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah, which have all adopted strict laws in the past two years to try to discourage illegal immigrants from settling in their states.
On June 25, the top U.S. court upheld the most controversial aspect of Arizona's immigration statute..
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Right now those conservatives are only giving their money to a dying state of CA
My Dad has the same oath. So do I.
God Bless.
no just not you.
Think about it, we have to pay for a woman who can’t keep her legs closed s we kill and pay for her baby.
We now have poeple running about saying they should be given right, special right because they like turd burgling and then saying they’re proud of how they have sex.
We build windmills which kill birds, make an eye sore of the landscape and then kill jobs too.
we now say to those who break our laws by coming here illegally that it’s hey OK and we’ll reward you.
I could go on but yes we have complete lunatics for the last 40 years making and passing laws
I lived in Thousand Oaks from 1985 to 1989. There were still some Conservatives there back then. I probably witnessed one of the last sane political acts to take place in the state: The defeat of Rose Bird and her minions.
Imagine showing this sentence to people 20, 30, 50 years ago. They'd think you were insane! Why wouldn't EVERY state want to discourage illegal immigrants from settling there?
They'd be shocked the controversial stand is that taken by those few states, not the CA law.
You would not be believed.
However "one bill Gil" (Cedillo) isn't finished. He's likely to try again and this year he's got the L.A. Chief of Police on his side calling for illegals to have driver's licenses.
Nice selective editing:
"and due to a surveyor's mistake it doesn't extend all the way down" is meant to imply that it is Nevada that was 'misplaced.'
Isn’t it “unconstitutional” for the states to get involved in the immigration fiasco? It’s time for Eric the Red to sue California’s ass. This isn’t their job.
I also took that oath! USCG
I will stand with you.
If they want a bail out, they'll have to go to foreign nations to get it, because that's where all their tax dollars went.
“I hope they don’t expect the rest of America to bail them out when the state goes bankrupt.”
When ? We’re already there.
If you're young enough, just go now. Run, save yourself...
the corrupt and stupid politicians in CA have long ago ceded the state to illegal invaders and now the only way they can retain power is to pander to them. The voters, meanwhile, get what they deserve which is living in a state that resembles a third world country more and more each day
“Nice selective editing:”
Nothing selective about it. Except in the small area where Arizona, Nevada, and California meet together at the pointy southern tip of Nevada, there is no Nevada wall between Arizona and California. I fail to understand your comment that Nevada is a wall between Arizona and California. Geographically impossible....Care to clarify???
Should read: California says “Okay” to Reconquista...
That pretty much the way it is. Our universities were neural 30 years ago. Now the liberal arts department are liberal, Marxist and feminazi dominated. Same holds true for our NGO sector and major charities and foundations. Lesbian and feminazi controlled
It's humor. I also said that "and due to a surveyor's mistake it doesn't extend all the way down" i.e. it was misplaced/misdesigned.
The joke is that geographical impossibility.
If you're young enough, just go now. Run, save yourself..
No, I've got it. I'm too old to start over, too.
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