Law California now a Sanctuary State - tops list for stupidiest decision made

California becomes first 'sanctuary state' for undocumented migrants

Los Angeles (AFP) - California became the first "sanctuary state" for undocumented immigrants Friday, a decision criticized by the Trump administration which believes the move will compromise security.

California's governor, Democrat Jerry Brown, signed the landmark legislation -- Senate Bill 54 (SB54) -- which grants better protections to people who are in the US without permission, including those who have committed crimes.

It also limits cooperation between local police forces and federal authorities in operations to track down undocumented immigrants.

The legislation, which will come into effect on January 1, 2018, is part of a series of laws which protect the almost 3 million undocumented immigrants living in California -- most of whom are from Mexico and Central America.

Brown insisted in his signing statement the measure will not "prevent or prohibit Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the Department of Homeland Security from doing their own work in any way" -- but it will stop local authorities from assisting.

"They are free to use their own considerable resources to enforce federal immigration law in California," he wrote, adding that the new legislation will not deny ICE access to prisons.

But in a statement, ICE acting director Tom Homan responded: "The governor is simply wrong."

The law will "undermine public safety and hinder ICE from performing its federally mandated mission," Homan said.

"Ultimately, SB54 (...) creates another magnet for more illegal immigration," he insisted, adding ICE will have "no choice but to conduct at-large arrests in local neighborhoods and at worksites, which will inevitably result in additional collateral arrests."

ICE said it will also likely send immigrants arrested in California to detention centers outside of the state, "far from any family they may have in California."

A number of cities in California, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, have already banned police officers from collaborating with ICE on operations to capture undocumented immigrants.

Last week, ICE detained 450 undocumented immigrants in the United States -- 101 of whom were in Los Angeles.

The bill signed into law by Brown also includes assistance for students and measures to combat abuse of tenants.

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[Bunny Tracks]

How long do you guys think before California decides to secede from the nation?

 

[Clownfish]

How long do you guys think before California decides to secede from the nation?

Fuck I'll help them do it

 

[AnOminous]

How long do you guys think before California decides to secede from the nation?

Half the counties in California would secede from California and declare war on it themselves if they tried.

 

[escapegoat]

California has spent literally decades playing legal in this state, but illegal federally, with weed. This is way not an unknown area re: law enforcement.

California will very soon be teeming with ICE agents going out of their way to arrest and deport everyone they possibly can, largely to send a message to other states considering this form of dumbshittery.

Bullshit.

That's not how Prop 215 went, the state was not suddenly swarming with DEA, and if you think the rest of the country wants to deal with 20 dollar foreign salads, because the food in the Valley is rotting on the ground, well, lulz. Del Monte is not going to go for that.

I mean, I get that agricultural news is fucking boring, but other states have tried the Extreeeeme Mexican Crackdown tactic. You end up with farmer's fucked and prices going waaaay up and rotting food.

 

[KM 749]

Use California as a shield against North Korea nukes

And then we can use the ruins to build the wall.

 

[Vault Boy]

Half the counties in California would secede from California and declare war on it themselves if they tried.

Also, there's the matter of all the Air Force, Navy, and Army bases not taking too kindly to the surrounding state trying to secede. Should such an event occur, the result would be a swift failure to secede, and the state being under marshal law for an indefinite amount of time.

 

[Some JERK]

Nah, it won't be that bad, because there's a near-equal influx of new Californians for every person of means leaving the state, which is part of the problem as it creates even more Californians to contribute to the ongoing diaspora.

The general cycle seems to be:
-Move to CA as an idealistic kid recently graduating college (or move there to attend college) seeking opportunity
-Get caught up in the general fart-sniffing superiority of the two major metropolitan areas
-Hit the mid-20's and realize they're getting too old for underpaid gigs with little-to-no advancement while sharing a 3 bedroom apartment with 4 people
-Realize it's extremely unlikely they will ever be able to afford their own place, buy a house, or settle down in their current area
-Listen to people 5-10 years older than them break the superiority bubble as they whine about tax rates, how public schools are terrible in the area but private schools are unable to meet demand, and how high the crime and homelessness rate is
-Get offended that CA is run by charlatans and neoliberals insufficiently committed to the progressive cause (or sometimes chalk it up as a fluke due to administrative incompetence rather than a flaw in the underlying governance philosophy)
-Move to the closest out-of-state metropolitan area that has its shit marginally more together than CA
-Vote for the same policies that created the dystopia they just escaped from

California is basically a cancer incubator for the rest of the country. I imagine the cycle is rather similar on the East Coast with New Yorkers.

I don't know. That could very well be what's going on but that hasn't been my experience at all. The people I know who are looking to leave aren't struggling Millennials. They're established, successful people who want to leave specifically because of the bullshit policies that are making this state impossible to live in, and would never vote for those policies somewhere else.

 

[CWCchange]

Like I said turn Cali into a prison colony and processing center for undocumented migrants.

Got too high of a population in Missouri prison system? Send them to California and have them on the dole. Got refugees from Syria? Send them to California. If they complain just call them racist and watch the place burn.

For starters, maybe reopen Angel Island?

 

[AnOminous]

Bullshit.

That's not how Prop 215 went, the state was not suddenly swarming with DEA, and if you think the rest of the country wants to deal with 20 dollar foreign salads, because the food in the Valley is rotting on the ground, well, lulz. Del Monte is not going to go for that.

Nobody actually wants the federal drug laws, though. Deporting illegal immigrants is actually popular enough it got a President elected.

 

[Absolutego]

I don't know. That could very well be what's going on but that hasn't been my experience at all. The people I know who are looking to leave aren't struggling Millennials. They're established, successful people who want to leave specifically because of the bullshit policies that are making this state impossible to live in, and would never vote for those policies somewhere else.

Than your experience is likely similar to mine in the sense that you found a group of like-minded people in a sea of the opposite. The vast majority of fellow ex-Californians I've encountered now that I've escaped the state have the exact same political beliefs that they had in CA and when I press them on their reasons for leaving they'll just default to it being "too crowded" to save face.

 

[Herbert Hoover]

California picked the worst time to do this. If they had decided to do this in 2014 or so they probably would've gotten away with it. But they chose to do this under a Congress and President that actually has the mandate and the balls to strengthen ICE in the state.