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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“The joke is that geographical impossibility.”
I apologize for being dense. The humor just didn’t reach this end of the thread. I assumed you were being serious.....sorry.
Arizona should provide one-way bus tickets to California for the illegals they arrest.
It's ok; perhaps I read a bit too much Terry Pracket this year (British humor)... Or maybe I needed illustrations.
That's very true. Native Californians are becoming more and more rare in their home state, it seems. Like me, many are doing the (formerly) unthinkable, and pulling themselves out of California by the roots. Essentially, they're simply being run out of the state.
As a native Californian, I grew up being used to newcomers to the state, and never gave much weight to the fact that some of us had a natural birthright to the existence and future direction of the place. The undefined and nebulous nature of California's cultural identity tended to make Californians susceptible to intrusions and take-overs by out of state and foreign interlopers.
There just has never been a strong enough sense of group identity and strong allegiance to the state amongst native Californians for them to put up a fight. This is brought into stark relief when comparing the culture and attitudes of native Texans to native Californians. Texans' forebears fought a war for independence to liberate themselves, and I believe that basic difference in their histories, is what separates the two.
Since living in Texas, I've often noted the fact that simple displays of state patriotism are common and widespread, while in California, they're rare. In all my half a century living in the state, I only once saw someone flying the California flag in their yard. If I had a dollar for every time I've seen that in Texas, I could buy a new house with cash.
Ha-ha - jokes on them: the court said states can’t have their own immigration laws. :)
Precursor for civil war.
Like Illinois (my sad state), California will sink under the weight of it’s own foolishness.
Just an FYI guys, the next terrorist attack should be blamed on the state of CA, because they let illegals in. If Mexicans can walk through no problem, then so can Al Qaeda and Hezbollah. God damn this state I live in.
Just an FYI guys, the next terrorist attack should be blamed on the state of CA, because they let illegals in. If Mexicans can walk through no problem, then so can Al Qaeda and Hezbollah. God damn this state I live in.
Every single time I think that this state could not get more insane, the lunatics in the legislature prove me wrong.
Moonbeam Brown would be smart to veto this stupid bill - and if not, it should be repealed by referendum. Assuming conservatives decide to stay here if this monstrosity is passed.
If I were an illegal criminal alien, I would get to California as fast as I could.
If I were a criminal citizen of the US or non-citizen if you can get away with it, I would run for any office as a Democrat as fast as I could.
You have a decent shot at being Prezbo/King of the UnUnited Socialist States of America.
So is DEATHCare, but "not if it a 'tax'" according to J. Roberts.
Ate dinner at a Marie Callenders in North San Diego last week. The mexican waiter was nice enough but I had to ask for silverware. Then I didn’t get a lime with the tacos and he never brought one even though I asked him. Then I get an ObamaCare-like rationed sized blueberry pie gone in 3 bites for the price of a whole pie. He didnt get a nice tip from me. Eating out is quite the rip-off these days even with the so-called cheap labor from the southern promised land imports.
Because I care about my children and grandchildren, I prefer Arizona’s anti-California bill. SB1070. Yeah. The one the morons on Barry’s Supreme Court are clueless about.
We rarely eat out any longer because the cooks and wait staff are all third world in California, even in expensive restaurants.
The nurse at the school I work at told me she and her fellow nurses rarely, if ever eat out b/c of the risk of hepatitis, brain worm, e coli contamination, etc. — all have gotten the Hep A shot to protect themselves.
Better to cook it myself.
If it weren’t for elderly relatives, I too would be out — something I thought I’d NEVER EVER say because I am a native and this is my home.
Damn the politicians in this state for allowing it to go Third World — I cannot even walk my dogs alone in the foothills behind my home any longer b/c of all the illegal aliens that camp out there now. They set wildfires too.
Some of my neighbors pack heat even though there is NO CCW here, I’m thinking about it just to walk around here — and I live in a neighborhood with homes in the $700,000 + neighborhood.
Tom Ammiano - another scheming democrat human toilet.
Nam Vet
I was going to post nearly the same thing. There are at least 2 states that are hopelessly liberal and hopelessly lost until they completely collapse. In IL it will be welfare that does us in. Then, and only then will they have any hope of purging the Dem scum and starting over. As long as Chicago exists the way it is and has been, the rest of us will be forever irrelevant. I was born and raised here and at 43 I’m getting the hell out while I still can and to give my kids a better future. I’m leaving before the collapse so I can salvage what’s left of my assets. I suggest others do the same. Let these pigs and ignorant sheep wallow in their own mess.
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