Does California really want to support immigrants? A thread.
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Local police, jails, and prisons willingly turn over or create opportunities for ICE to take immigrants daily, including in liberal Cali.
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For every 100 immigrant deported by ICE, about 75 are there because a cop or sheriff got them there. Sometimes for really petty shit.
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If Trump wants to deport a million people, he doesn't really need more ICE agents. Local police can just do the job.
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Stopping a pipeline that starts with getting pulled over speeding and ends with deportation requires states to resist cooperation with ICE.
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If Cali really want to resist Trump and the horrors he's very clearly proclaiming against immigrants, it needs to stop cooperating with ICE.
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Senator
@kdeleon's SB54 would do just that. It identifies the areas in which local cops, jails, and prisons cooperate with ICE and stops it.Show this thread -
SB54 was already amended to incl what are called serious and violent felonies. But new amendments proposed by Gov
@JerryBrownGov go further.Show this thread -
I was leaked a copy of Gov
@JerryBrownGov's amendments to SB54 and outlined what's at stake here:https://theintercept.com/2017/08/28/jerry-brown-sb54-california-sanctuary-state-ice-prisons/ …Show this thread -
Because it's unconstitutional, California no longer holds detainees for ICE. Gov Brown's proposed draft amendment allows it in a new way.
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SB54, a bill that's supposed to make Cali a "sanctuary state," includes an amendment to hand more people over to ICE than it does now.
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It's not just that: Gov. Brown's amendments would maintain the status quo, where local cops and sheriffs essentially do ICE's work.
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Senator
@kdeleon has an opportunity to get a bill passed that would really resist Trump's terror against immigrants. But....Show this thread -
Senator
@kdeleon hasn't made clear whether he'll accept Governor@JerryBrownGov's amendments to SB54. The amendments are due today.Show this thread -
Whatever
@kdeleon does with SB54 will not only affect immigrants in California, but also in states that will copy our legislation.Show this thread -
Will California senate leader
@kdeleon's SB54 truly create avenues to resist Trump, or will it be a gift to Trump and his terror? We'll see.Show this thread
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