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New California law lets immigrant parents name a caretaker for their child if they’re separated
The Orange County Register ^ | December 18, 2025 | Linh Tat

Posted on 12/25/2025 12:32:31 PM PST by TheDon

A new law allowing parents to designate someone to care for their child in the event they are detained or deported by federal immigration authorities will soon take effect in California.

Starting Jan. 1, the Family Preparedness Plan Act expands the type of relative who can qualify as a “caretaker” and creates a process by which a parent may nominate a caretaker to be a “temporary joint guardian” through probate court.

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Parental rights advocates earlier this year who said the bill could endanger children by allowing strangers to falsely sign an affidavit claiming a child is under their care, then making education- and health-related decisions on their behalf.

The caregiver’s authorization affidavit only requires a person to self-attest, under perjury, that they are the caregiver for a minor.

The form, which does not require a parent’s signature, has been used for years in California.

The California Policy Center, an educational nonprofit, said the affidavit process “could easily allow for increased kidnapping and human trafficking of our children.” One pastor, according to CalMatters, called it “the most dangerous bill we’ve seen” in Sacramento.

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(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


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California is supporting the breakup of families?
1 posted on 12/25/2025 12:32:31 PM PST by TheDon
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To: TheDon

Deport the kids and the caretakers named.


2 posted on 12/25/2025 12:36:25 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: TheDon

Sniff? Sniff? What do I smell in the air? Potential fraud????
What could possibly go wrong with this law? :(


3 posted on 12/25/2025 12:38:59 PM PST by BigB60 (C. S. Lewis loves hobbits)
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To: TheDon

Not controversial. The caretaker for parents and children is still Uncle Sam. And his taxpaying relatives.
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Green is the color of my true love’s grift
In the immigration,
when they rise,
In the immigration,
when they rise.

That’s the time,
that’s the time,
we lose the most.

Nod to Donovan from his LP Fairy Tale (1965).


4 posted on 12/25/2025 12:43:06 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: TheDon

Most of those bass turds never were married and neither wants to change the unaccompanied “anchor” baby’s diapers now that ICE isn’t doing it anymore since the far-left sickos taught the Mexican flag waving illegal alien slaves that ICE people are NAZIs. Nazi ICE (NICE).


5 posted on 12/25/2025 12:48:05 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (MAGAism is the greatest CURE for DemonRAT Demockrazy. )
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To: TheDon

Designate Gov Newscome.


6 posted on 12/25/2025 1:13:13 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: TheDon

Grappling hook babies.


7 posted on 12/25/2025 1:16:47 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: TheDon

“only requires a person to self-attest, under perjury, that they are the caregiver for a minor.”

Every child trafficker’s dream.


8 posted on 12/25/2025 1:47:20 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: TheDon

Is a parent is being deported, then it’s most likely the child is an anchor baby. Baby needs to go with Mom and Dad. (I wonder how SCOTUS will will re the anchor baby issue.)


9 posted on 12/25/2025 1:49:49 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: TheDon

Fixing the 14th Amendment’s misapplication fixes this.


10 posted on 12/25/2025 1:51:17 PM PST by montag813
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To: TheDon

Hey SUCKER take my kids ,LOL


11 posted on 12/25/2025 2:07:51 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: TheDon

Sign an affidavit, get the kid(s) and sell them on the black slave market all with the blessing of the government.


12 posted on 12/25/2025 2:10:54 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Along with the biological parents.


13 posted on 12/25/2025 2:29:22 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: montag813

Correct.


14 posted on 12/25/2025 2:29:36 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: TheDon

Apparently so.


15 posted on 12/25/2025 2:30:12 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Wilderness Conservative

That is the parents’ choice. But, if the kid is a citizen by birth then it can possibly stay .


16 posted on 12/25/2025 3:11:07 PM PST by bobbo666
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To: TheDon

Kiddie diddlers will be volunteering in droves.


17 posted on 12/25/2025 3:57:17 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: TheDon

“Immigrant parents?”

More like illegal alien invaders!


18 posted on 12/25/2025 4:52:24 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Charlie Kirk's assassination / murder was our Fort Sumter moment. But only one side is fighting.)
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To: TheDon

SCOTUS needs to end birthright citizenship NOW.


19 posted on 12/25/2025 4:57:02 PM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: TheDon

California is supporting child trafficking? Is there proof of parentage by DNA testing? Money to be made.


20 posted on 12/25/2025 6:29:22 PM PST by healy61
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