... and why not pray tell ... why not?
Posted on 07/05/2012 8:15:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - The California Senate on Thursday passed a bill supporters dub the "anti-Arizona" law, which seeks to shield illegal immigrants from status checks by local police and challenges Republican-backed immigration crackdowns in other U.S. states.
The Democrat-led state Senate voted 21 to 13 for the California Trust Act, which blocks local police from referring a detainee to immigration officials for deportation unless that person has been convicted of a violent or serious felony.
The bill has the backing of about 100 immigrant rights groups, police chiefs and mayors.
It has already passed the state Assembly in a 47-26 vote. It will go back to the Assembly for a concurrence vote following the summer recess before heading to Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat.
The measure seeks to create a national model to counter what backers say is racial profiling inherent in the part of Arizona's anti-immigrant law allowed to stand by the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
It also seeks to push back against a federal program called Secure Communities, which shares the same principles as Arizona's law, supporters say.
"Today's vote signals to the nation that California cannot afford to be another Arizona," Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a Democrat who sponsored the measure, said in a statement.
"The bill also limits unjust and onerous detentions for deportation in local jails of community members who do not pose a threat to public safety," he added.
In passing the law, California stands apart from not only Arizona, but also Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah, which have all adopted strict laws in the past two years to try to discourage illegal immigrants from settling in their states.
On June 25, the top U.S. court upheld the most controversial aspect of Arizona's immigration statute..
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Greece on the Pacific.
Oh, ho ho, when the time comes for illegals to be considered invaders and those helping them to be guilty of treason this will bite them.
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HAHAHHA! |
What, and slow down the stampede of illegals of AZ into CA?
Hey Tom Ammiano, my mother-in-law who waited for years to emigrate legally to America from Ireland and is now a US citizen says FU!!
... and why not pray tell ... why not?
The leftists running this state are insane.
Is that like one of those little buildings that the border agents hang out in?
As many know the process is very taxing.
Most government expenditures are.
California, the Lindsay Lohan of the United states.
There are millions of sane people still left. But America has lurched so far left in the last 40 years. What kind of nation allows itself to invaded this way and protect foreign born law breakers this way?
I can’t believe this is happening.
It’s the green light for drug cartels and anyone who does not care about the rule of law.
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It's our SHTF retreat, not near the border nor anything else. By "taxing" I meant difficult and demanding. Although to pay for it I had to earn about 50% more than it cost due to paying my less than fair share, lol. |
I want out of this state SO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This state is a war zone and the tax payers have lost.
OUTSTANDING!
Now Arizona can pass a bill offering $50 and a bus ticket to California to anyone here illegally!
Free bus ticket, enough cash for beer and ice, and a destination that will protect you from the cops - how could they resist?
“Unconstitutional”?
I think the Constitution got flushed down the toilet the past three years, and a plunger was used last week by the SCOTUS to make sure it was gone.
They did, they called it Nevada... unfortunately it's not a tall wall, and due to a surveyor's mistake it doesn't extend all the way down... but those are minor details.
Wrong target. It's not California. It's the wackadoo infestation that's gone viral in that state. They're in the majority now, and will continue to enact contra-survival legislation until the place implodes in anarchy and violence.
I was born in California and spent nearly half a century there. I got the hell out in 2005 and never looked back. So should any other law abiding, productive, patriotic American.
We can take it back from the wack jobs after it collapses.
Re “California cannot afford to be another Arizona”. You Aholes wish you were Arizona, despite the destructiveness of Gov. Janet Napolitano (who has been given an opportunity to show off her incompetence at the national level).
Your cities are going bankrupt, your gangs are larger than most major cities’ police forces and National Guard, crime is rampant in many of your major and medium-sized cities, your Gov. doesn’t know what planet he is on, and your state legislature sounds more like the Soviet Politburo than a sane, representative body.
You think that breaking the law is permissible and that enforcing it is not. George Orwell would be proud of you, comrades.
Let’s celebrate your latest legal fiasco like “it’s 1984”.
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