The State Legislature sent Gov. Jerry Brown a bill Friday that would prohibit local law enforcement from holding arrestees at the request of federal immigration authorities.
Known as the Trust Act, AB1081 by Tom Ammiano of San Francisco makes an exception for violent and serious criminals, but was opposed by the California State Sheriffs' Association. The bill's target is a program run by the United States Immigration and Custom Enforcement called Secure Communities, which has the stated goal of prioritizing "the removal of criminal aliens, those who pose a threat to public safety, and repeat immigration violators."
Critics of Secure Communities argue that the policy enlists local law enforcement in a process that victimizes innocent people and erodes trust with immigrant communities.
The bill passed the Assembly floor Friday on a 48-26 vote.
According to the "Los Angeles Times," Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca plans to defy the Trust Act if it becomes law. What do you think local law enforcement should do if Governor Brown signs the bill into law?
Why is it, that predominently leftist fanatics resort to name-calling when they do not have any facts to back up their arguments? (Some woman (who I know) and I were discussing the fact that Donald Trump was demanding to see Obama's birth cert-remember that? And because I agreed that he should show his birth cert as all Presidents are required to do, she said that the only reason I didn't vote for him was because he was black. Actually I liked him; however I didn't vote for him because he was a one-issue candidate.) And these folks who enter this country illegally are not just hispanics. They are from plenty of other countries as well.
I do not believe the "liberal middle class" is either rich or necessarily "liberal". What statistical evidence do you have to support that claim? I know from personal experience I used to argue with a friend who is a middle class senior citizen with a middle class income that her illegal alien housekeeper and her anti immigrant views were at odds with each other. She knew she was breaking the law but it was more important to her to have the help with her house. She figured her little "exception" was doing no harm. At the same time she was and is a very conservative Republican and she expressed anti Hispanic views to me so often I asked her to stop doing it. I finally just stopped being friends with her. There is a lot of hypocrisy in America.
To allow someonene to enter the US without background check , Megan Law would be futile and look forward to more 9/11 ? to allow someone that leave in underground economy ? AndI could go on , not that our own Citizen are perfect a couoples of them are going to meet their makers pretty soon for blowing the federal building in Oaklahoma . We do need somekind of enforcement , Ithink I am going to the gun store and get ready , because if the Police officers can't enforce the federal law , don't break in my house unless you do have a wood box ready . Plain and simple .
To sum up the arguments against this bill: "OMG, OMG, the liberal criminals who run California and don't want to be part of America are teaming up with Obama (who believes in violating the U.S. constitution and who ships guns to Mexican drug gangs) to let armies and armies of criminal foreigners freely cross the border and silently infiltrate our society and they are going make the police let them commit crimes and steal our identities and use our hospitals and food stamps and make babies so they can steal our money and steal our rights as Americans and commit all kinds of other crimes. If this bill passes the cops won't be able to stop the brown people and jail them until they prove their citizenship and that'll lead to the civil war and 9/11 combined, so we all need to buy a lot of guns and barricade ourselves in our houses and defend ourselves against the army of criminal foreigners. And if that doesn't scare you enough ALL OUR BASE BELONG TO CHINA!" Did I miss anything?
That was great! Thank you!
"Why is it, that predominently leftist fanatics resort to name-calling..." Honestly, you can't make this stuff up anymore.
Robert, You sure are putting lots of words in my mouth! I thought Mike's tongue-in-cheek synopsis was funny and sometimes a good sense of humor is really needed. If you are interested in my opinions, and actually want to comment on them, scroll back - they are in there. You have to scroll almost to the top to find my first post. Then you can apologize.
My argument against the bill is: if you don't like federal immigration policy, take it up with DC, don't throw a hissy fit. The bill simply erects road blocks to status quo immigration enforcement and advances no legitimate interest of citizens.
I don't think you scrolled back far enough. As I stated, it's a bad bill. It puts local law enforcement in a bind and I hope the Governor doesn't sign it. If he does, as I previously stated, I think it will be challenged legally and end up tied up for a long time. Also, since federal law trumps state law I'm confident a legal challenge will ultimately win. It's a bad law. And you are reading me correctly - sort of. I'm usually to the left of center but I don't " bleed " for anyone as in " bleeding heart". a bad law is a bad law.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gov-brown-vetoes-ab-1081-lapd-says-were-going-to-implement-it-anyway-172722371.html