Appearing with a host of state and local officials in downtown Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of legislation Saturday that would restrict the Trump administration\u2019s ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
Newsom signed five bills at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, alongside LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, Mayor Karen Bass, County Supervisor Hilda Solis, Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance, state Sen. Lena Gonzalez, D-Long Beach, and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re here in Los Angeles, the most diverse city in the most diverse state, California, in the world\u2019s most diverse democracy. It is a point of pride. \u2026 At our best we don\u2019t tolerate that diversity, at our best we celebrate that diversity,\u201d Newsom said.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026Our status is unique \u2026 it\u2019s what makes California great. It\u2019s what makes America great. And it\u2019s under assault by this administration,\u201d the governor continued. \u201cThere\u2019s a word that you\u2019ve never heard uttered from the president of the United States\u2019 lips, and certainly not (White House Deputy Chief of Staff) Stephen Miller, and that\u2019s pluralism. We practice pluralism. It\u2019s a deep point of pride. Those values are under assault, to a degree we could have never imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bills include SB627, a ban on law enforcement agents wearing masks, SB805, a requirement that they visibly display identification, and a prohibition against bail fugitive recovery agents from using their position for immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n
Two of the bills are specifically focused on public schools: SB98 requires K-12 schools and higher education institutions to notify parents, students and staff when immigration enforcement is confirmed on campus, and AB49 requires enforcement officers to obtain a valid judicial warrant and meet other requirements before entering a school or facility. It also prevents school officials from collecting immigration information and prohibits them from disclosing pupil or family information to immigration authorities without a warrant or court order.<\/p>\n
Newsom also signed SB81, which restricts health-care facilities from sharing patient information or granting access to immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n
Four of the bills go into effect immediately, while the masking law goes into effect in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that we need bills to protect people\u2019s rights of privacy from information sharing, masking of federal agents \u2014 if they are federal agents \u2014 protecting kids so that they can come to school \u2026 all of this legislative resistance is to protect Angelenos from our own federal government,\u201d Bass said. \u201cThat is profound.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026 But what I\u2019m so proud of in our city is that and we have legislative resistance, we have resistance from local government and state government, and we have resistance on the streets,\u201d the mayor added.<\/p>\n
Carvalho noted that the LAUSD has already taken steps to prepare for immigration enforcement affecting students, including sending students home with information packets with tips for dealing with questioning from federal agents and establishing \u201czones of protection\u201d for safe passage to and from campuses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no sidewalks for immigrant children and sidewalks for everybody else. Everybody walks the same sidewalk of hope and opportunity to our school,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
California Democrats have assailed the raids, which began in the Southland in June. They\u2019ve accused agents of targeting people based on their race, and of detaining people without due process. They also say the raids have failed to live up to the administration\u2019s promise to target those undocumented immigrants suspected of committing violent crimes.<\/p>\n
Officials with the Department of Homeland Security have released the alleged criminal histories of many of the detained immigrants.<\/p>\n
And appearing on Friday night\u2019s \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher\u201d in Los Angeles, White House border czar Tom Homan said even those in the United States illegally who don\u2019t commit other crimes create a backlog in the immigration system, delaying the process for thousands who are waiting their turn to come here legally.<\/p>\n
\u201cIllegal immigration is not a victimless crime,\u201d Homan said. \u201cIf you send a message that there\u2019s no consequences and you want to reward illegal behavior, (it\u2019s) not going to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026 If you want to be a part of the greatest nation on Earth, there\u2019s a right way and a wrong way to do it,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe ones who are here illegally cheated the system. They moved themselves to the front of the line and they overwhelmed the immigration court system back nine, 10 years, which means that people who are really trying to come here the right way are sitting in the back of the bus.\u201d<\/p>\n
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday\u2019s signing ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Appearing with a host of state and local officials in downtown Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[4231,4503,1582,276,409,2961,224,5337,3435,121922,7093,56149,17941],"class_list":{"0":"post-242382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-bills","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-newsom","17":"tag-package","18":"tag-raids","19":"tag-restrict","20":"tag-signs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115238818774269726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}