From the Jails to the Streets, Courthouses and Worksites: California Takes on the Federal Immigration Police

The familiar lines were drawn.  Combatants clashed in a war of words, competing governance philosophies, conflicting laws, and judicial challenges – all in an age-old constitutional battle of federal power versus states’ rights. This time around, however, the roles were reversed.  Version 2018 is unlike the 1960s when extreme-right southern conservatives, claiming to champion states’ rights, defied but ultimately failed to stop federal efforts to protect civil rights.  This time, the state of California passed three statutes under its police powers with the avowed purpose of promoting public safety and protecting undocumented state residents against a determined army of newly-unshackled federal immigration enforcement officers. And this time, the state mostly won. By enacting three new California laws – Assembly Bills, AB 103 and AB 450, and Senate Bill (SB) 54 – lawmakers responded to aggressive federal immigration enforcement…

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