Why CA Sheriff plans to violate the law of the sanctuary of the state

The specific way in which the sheriff of the village district of North California says it will violate state law is through contact Immigration Authorities after arresting someone who is in the country illegally.

It is equally true to say that the sheriff of Amador Gary Redman believes that he obeys the federal law, more special The US Penal Code tab This prohibits illegally sticking people to the country.

Both opinions are likely to be tested in court as soon as he makes his first call to immigration and customs law enforcement.

The California law of the sanctuaryAdopted in 2017 during the First Trump Administration, it forbade police from participating in the implementation of immigration. They are allowed to inform the immigration authorities of someone in the country illegally after the person has been convicted and served his sentence or otherwise is about to be released from custody.

Between 2018 and 2023, the last date for which data is available, there was 4,192 Transfers of people From prisons in California to immigration authorities.

Redman now plans to test the law of the sanctuary, as President Donald Trump promises the largest deportation program in US history. Trump’s allies have signaled that they want to target the cities of deportations and countries with the laws of the sanctuary. They have also indicated they will sue the local agencies they look at as Irr. Immigration ImplementationS

At the beginning of the new administration most California Sheriffs said to Calmatters that they will not cooperate with the federal authorities to implement immigration based on their own policies or laws adopted by their counties and will prohibit immigration agents from using district staff, property or databases without a federal order.

Others have said that while the California Law prevents direct cooperation with the federal implementation of immigration, immigration authorities are free to use their databases in prison and fingerprint databases to identify people interested. Riverside Chad Bianko County Sheriff, who announced his plan to run for governor in 2026, swore to work “around” California’s law to support federal immigration.

But only one sheriff promised to violate the law of California by contacting the implementation of immigration during a person’s arrest.

“Ninety -nine percent of (the law of the California sanctuary) we follow and will continue to follow,” Redman said. “I have been asked by several people in the community when you come into contact with violent criminals, someone you have arrested for rape, and they are illegal, what will you do?

“I said, well, I do not return them to the community if they are released. So the violation of (the law of the sanctuary in California) will enter. “

Trump has already tested the California Sanctuary Act

When the law of the sanctuary was a debate, a number of sheriffs of California came out against him. After its passage, the California Department of Justice has promised to closely monitor the law enforcement departments.

Now, in response to Redman’s claim that he would violate the law of the sanctuary, the Prosecutor General Prosecutor’s Office said that the law of the sanctuary in California had already survived a constitutional test when the Trump administration was suing the state in 2018, a group of the 9th Court of Appeal found that the State Sacred Legislation was not in conflict with Federa.

US Supreme Court refused to put the case To their doom, effectively confirming the decision of the 9th chain.

“The federal courts have upheld (the California Sanctuary Act) and found that this was not in conflict with the federal law,” said the Prosecutor General Email. “We are closely monitoring the compliance with law enforcement (the law of the sanctuary in California).”

The original Trump administration case tried to invalidate the law of the sanctuary in California, stating that it was contrary to the federal law – the one that prohibits the state and local law enforcement agencies to intervene in the communication of someone’s immigration status.

But Redman claims that a different federal statute forces him to contact the implementation of immigration and that legal theory has not yet been tested.

“I look at the fact that we have a federal law that specifically speaks of a port in a building. My prison is a building, ”he said.

Maria Romani, director of the North California immigrants’ Rights Program, said that the most typical violations of the California Sanctuary Act are issues of policy within the sheriff or police office, such as when immigration enforcement authorities can legally take a person who is released from prison.

Romani said most of these incidents were resolved by conversation, not a case.

But Redman is the first sheriff to whom she was confronted with, who has stated that she knows she is breaking the law, she said.

“I think this opens his office for responsibility and I don’t think it’s good for his staff,” Romani said. “This type of messages is not good for public safety. I think the immigrant community will be afraid to contact the sheriff when there is a sheriff who says that I will call (immigration and customs application) at any time when someone is arrested. “

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Redman said he was not a solid conservative and did not take this position based on his feelings for immigration. He is described as Democrat of Kennedy, who grew up in Los Angeles, before moving north, closer to where his wife was raised.

He has lived in Amador County since he joined the Sheriff’s Department in 1998, the county has changed significantly during that time, Redman said, with transplants at the Bay region changing political geography.

This does not mean that it becomes liberal: Registration of voters in Amador County It was divided almost evenly between the Democrats and Republicans in the 2000 presidential election until the 2024 presidential election. The Republican registration was still about 49%, but the registered Democrats fell to only 26% of all district voters.

Redman insists that despite his new policy, he is not involved in the implementation of immigration.

“We are not in the aspect of immigration application,” Redman said. “We will not participate in circles. We do not have this type of population. “

He said that his district did not have a large agricultural base compared to the larger counties of the Central Valley to the south. The main industries in the county are casinos, prison and vineyards. Redman said that the most frequent contacts of his deputies with unlawful immigrants occur during raids in illegal marijuana.

“We just don’t deal with many illegals, but during my career we have been involved in the cartels,” Redman said. “Usually it was here on large -scale marijuana operations. And we were involved in armed items that were illegal. “

If nothing else, Redman said, he responds to the requests of his deputies, who are ignited in the restrictions placed on them when confronted with someone in the country illegally but cannot hold the person or direct them to the application of immigration.

“They look at the fact that the person is here illegal, this is against the law, why can we do nothing?” said Redman. “It’s kind of like black and white.”