Sacramento – In response to the Trump administration’s aggressive and ongoing immigration attacks in Southern California, state lawmakers began strengthening protections for immigrants in schools, hospitals and other areas targeted by federal agents.
The Democrat-led California Legislature is considering nearly a dozen bills aimed at covering up illegal immigration, including helping children tear apart families in law enforcement actions.
“Californians want smart, wise solutions, and we want safe communities,” said Christopher Ward (D-san Diego), a rally hall. “They don’t want peaceful neighbors torn from school, from hospitals, from workplaces.”
Earlier this week, lawmakers passed two bills for the protection of school children.
Senate Bill 98, written by Senator Sasha Renne Perez (D-Alhambra), requires school administrators to notify families and students if federal agents conduct immigration operations on K-12 or university campuses.
legislation proposed by the General Assembly Director Al Muratsuchi (D-Rolling Hills Estates), AB 49, Immigration agents in non-public areas of the school will be denied unless there is a judicial arrest warrant or a court order. It will also ban the school district from providing information about students, their families, teachers and school employees without an arrest warrant.
Senator Jesse Arreguín (D-Berkeley), SB 81, Healthcare officials are prohibited from disclosing patients’ immigration status or place of birth, or providing access Non-public spaces in hospitals and clinicsIn the absence of a search warrant or court order, immigration authorities.
Now, the three bills are now headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom for consideration. If signed into law, the legislation will take effect immediately.
“Providing critical protection to students, parents and families to help ensure that schools maintain safe spaces, each student can provide critical protection to schools without worrying, as each student can learn and thrive.”
Federal immigration agents recently detained several 18-year-old high school students, including Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz Picked up while walking dog last month He started his senior year at Reseda Charter High School the other day.
Most Republican lawmakers voted against the bill, but Perez’s measures were supported by two Republican lawmakers, convener Juan Alanis (R-Modesto) and state Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh (R-Yucaipa). Muratsuchi was supported by six Republicans.
“No one should be able to go to school and possess another person’s child,” Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) said before the vote.
Medical Acts follow The surge in cancellations Regarding the health appointments of immigrants staying at home, there is concern that they may be swept away in immigration raids if they go to a doctor or clinic.
California Nurses Association. President Sandy Reding said the recent raids by federal agents ignored “traditional safe havens” such as clinics and hospitals, and the news agency’s approval would ensure that people in need of medical treatment “can safely receive care without fear or intimidation.”
Some Republicans have delayed a package of bills, including outspoken conservative lawmaker Carl Demio (R-san Diego), who said the state passed the “sanctuary” law in 2018 triggered a raid on Democrats’ “making this hay.”
State law Demaio attacked SB 54, forbidding local law enforcement from helping enforce federal immigration laws, including arresting someone for a deportation order and sending someone from jail so that immigration agents can pick them up.
Laws criticized by President Trump and the Republican president of the nation do not prevent police from notifying federal agents that people who are illegal in the country are about to be released.
“If you want to perform a more orderly process for enforcing federal immigration rules, you’re going to back off the complete failure of SB54,” Demaio said.
Trump’s supporter, Sonja Shaw, president of the Chino Valley Unified School Board, running for state principal public education, said the bill on school safety is “a political theater that creates fear without need.”
“Schools already need appropriate judicial orders before allowing immigration to enforce law on campus, so these bills won’t change anything,” said Shaw. “They are making families believe that the school is not safe when the system has actually protected students.”
But Muratsky, who is also running for principal, said the goal of the legislation is to ensure that regions everywhere protect their students from immigration enforcement, “including in more conservative areas.”
The Legislature is still awaiting six other immigration bills. Legislators must send the bill to Newsom’s table before sending it to the 2025 session next Friday.
These include AB 495 Through the convention illustration Celeste Rodriguez (D-san Fernando), this will make it easier for parents to designate caregivers who are not bloody relatives (including teaching and teachers) as short-term guardians for their children. More and more immigrant parents have Make emergency arrangements If they are deported.
The bill would allow non-health management to make decisions such as getting children to school and agreeing to some medical services.
Conservatives criticized the bill as an attack on parental rights and said the law could be abused by alienated family members and even sexual predators – and that the current guidelines for establishing family emergency programs are sufficient.
Still pending AB 1261raised by the General Assembly by Mia Bonta (D-Alameda), which will establish legal representation for unaccompanied children in federal immigration court proceedings; and SB 841 Visits to immigration authorities of homeless people and the homeless and survivors of rape, domestic violence and human trafficking were restricted by Senator Susan Rubio (D-Baldwin Park).
