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'Anti-Arizona' Immigration Law Passes California Senate
'Anti-Arizona' Immigration Law Passes California Senate
By Elizabeth Llorente
Published July 06, 2012
Fox News Latino
Sacramento, California – ... The California State Senate passed a bill Thursday that raises the bar for when police can act on immigration status. The vote comes a little over a week after the U.S. Supreme Court left standing a provision of Arizona's anti-illegal immigration law that requires police to check the status of people they stop for another reason, if they suspect the person is undocumented ...
San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano said he wrote AB1081, also known as the TRUST Act, because a federal policy requiring local law enforcement to check the immigration status of an arrestee wastes resources and erodes trust.
Under the bill, officers would only refer people convicted of serious felonies to immigration officials. They would no longer detain lower-level offenders on immigration holds ...
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/07/06/california-passes-anti-arizona-immigration-law/
