CA GOP Public Safety Weapon for Attacking Saints Laws

From Pedro RiosCalmness

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Some of the most powerful people in San Diego County have not been ashamed of their hostility to the main law of the Sanctuary in California and challenge it in every way, using rhetoric that has a fear that has a small basis in reality.

In one of the largest cities in the area, the El Kajon Municipal Council recently accepted controversial resolution In an attempt to disinfect his mayor’s contempt in the policies of the sanctuary, which protect migrants from excessive implementation, couching him as a measure of public safety. The resolution barely passed with 3-2 votes on its third trip to the Council in February.

The main drawer Bill Wales told Inewsource In December he would be ready to break California’s Values ​​ActThe 2017 Law, which prohibits state and local resources from being used to implement federal immigration laws, With some exceptionsS Law enforcement authorities can still cooperate with federal immigration agencies through joint working groups and when targeting a person who has committed certain serious crimes.

Eva Pacheko, a 34-year-old resident of El Kajon and a member of the Grassroots Group Latinos En Acción, which brought dozens of members of the community community, believes that the justification of this measure is to support the mass plans for the president’s deportation and to endanger the residents of EL Caj.

After passing the resolution, Pacheko said that this day many people prefer to stay home. “The people we know who are undocumented stopped going to workand they expressed a lot of fear When they see police officers from El Kajon. “

Wales, the main supporter of the resolution, uses a story of public safety to mislead the public about the law of the state sanctuary, suggesting that it restricts police officers to do their jobs. He They said to the right media of American news American News that the law does not allow any cooperation with the federal government in terms of immigration, which is false. He also has Promised in social media To “fight the state of California for tooth and nails.”

Other statements Wells made to immigrants suggest that he subscribes to the white top. “A great replacement theory“, Which claims that Democrats purposefully carry colorful immigrants to the United States to replace white populations in the white vote. Support the same ideologyS

An Interview published in December non -profit explicit encouragement The theory revealed the depth of Wales’ faith in it.

“I think it is to take the country from a power base,” he said. “You send these people to the big blue cities like Chicago and New York, knowing that these people will vote for a Democrat and then be re -elevated in the role of Congress, so they receive additional places in Congress.”

Tom Homin, the Trump Administration Border Kings, has also approved the theory of replacement once-as many more Ambitious and actively servicing civil servants.

Wales and Member of the Municipal Council of El Kajong Steve Gubble met with Homn in December 2024, and Wales obviously I met again with him In January. In a statement by email, Goble denied that his conversation with Homen included any preliminary agreement on the use of the El Cajon resolution as a way to challenge the law of the sanctuary in California in court. Still, there is concern among the defenders of the rights of immigrants who may be the strategy.

Wells did not respond to multiple comment requests.

El Cajon employees, again at 3-2 votes, voted in March to send support Letter To us rep. Gabe Evans of Colorado who has Introduced a bill In Congress, this will amend the federal law to enable the challenges of state laws such as the California values ​​Act.

Read more: California sheriff plans to violate the law of the state’s sanctuary. Here’s how

California General Prosecutor Rob Bont noticed. His service replied to El Kajon’s letter regarding his legal obligations in accordance with the State Law of the Sanctuary. Along with a stable list of resources, civil servants reminded El Kajon that “California law enforcement authorities are focused on the implementation of criminal implementation rather than the implementation of immigration.”

A 2020 Demantod UC Irvine Study that the policies of the sanctuary do not increase the degree of violence or crime. A Utah State University The same year even suggests that the policies of the sanctuary can Reduction Property crimes. Los Angeles, for example, has long since understood that Public cooperation is vital to police work And they forbade employees to ask about citizenship status decades ago to ensure that confidence remains.

Still, El Kajon is far from external. Some legislators in California have used a similar justification for public safety to insist on the more feast legislation on the implementation of immigration. State Seni. Brian JonesThe leader of the minorities in the Senate introduced a bill for the “major overhaul” of the law. At a press conference that announced the proposal – with Wales that surrounds it – Jones said “The Safety before the penalty sanctuary is a measure of strength, simple reform to tighten the state policy of the sanctuary in California, in favor of better public safety. ”

Assembly Kate SanchezRancho Santa Margarita’s Republican, introduced Assembly Bill 324 This would add exceptions to the Act of Values ​​by allowing law enforcement officers to detain someone who is alleged to have violated … certain provisions related to sexual traffic, “even if they were not convicted. Interview with Fox NewsSanchez described how her bill fits into Trump’s plans to deport millions of people, appealing to the same public safety argument.

“We want safe communities; we want to be able to maintain the rule of law,” she said.

Another bill, AB 85Attempts to tingle the protective nature of the state law of the sanctuary. But the author, Bill EsailiHe resigned from the Assembly last week to become a federal prosecutor of the Trump administration, leaving the fate of the bill in question.

Salvador Sarmiento, Director of the Campaign on the National Work Day Network and a member of the California Coalition, a group that advocates to end the end entanglement Among the law enforcement agencies of California and Ice, they noted that equality strategies fail in Orange County during Trump’s first term.

“The racist political cascade caused a huge turn,” he told me. “The members of the Natural Council were overthrown, the members of the congress were outraged and the community prevailed.”

The strategies have changed significantly at the beginning of Trump’s second term, and Republicans from Magica in California eagerly make their bidding. Trump has already signed an enforcement order aimed at jurisdictions with policies that limit their cooperation with federal immigration forces and threatens to reduce federal funding without providing details of what funds will be reduced.

Nevertheless, the El Kajon community remains sustainable as these policies are crawling closer. Pacheko told me that “Although these are anti -immigrant policies we resist, and this resolution makes us continue to participate and not be afraid. We are here and will stay here.”

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