Posted on 06/24/2012 2:51:57 PM PDT by artichokegrower
A bill that would pull back California's participation in President Barack Obama's flagship immigration enforcement program is gaining momentum a week after Obama halted the deportation of young illegal immigrants.
A key policy committee recently approved legislation that would limit the state's participation in Secure Communities, a federal fingerprinting program that calls for local jails to give immigration officials arrestees' fingerprints and to hold those who are deemed to be in the United States illegally.
AB1081 by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano would prohibit law enforcement from keeping people who have not been convicted of a serious felony in jail only for immigration enforcement reasons. The bill now moves to its final committee.
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A serious felony. What bull. CA has downgraded alsmost all felonies to minor crimes or misdemeanors , so no one will be kept. Three strikes may still be the law, but the court system has gutted its bite out of crime too.
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