Municipalities in California are being pitted against one another after a state law went into effect earlier this year limiting how much local law enforcement can cooperate with ICE agents.
SB54, or the California Values Act, makes the entire state a sanctuary, but while some cities are embracing the law, others are openly defying it.
NPR reports:
“This is an issue that I take very personally because I am the youngest child of a single immigrant mother with a third-grade education,” says state Sen. Kevin de León, who wrote the law. “I wanted to make sure that our local police officers, our sheriffs, were not a cog in the Trump deportation machine, separating innocent mothers from their children and children from their fathers.”
NPR has more on the contentious California battle over immigrant rights.
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