California Strikes Back Against Immigration Law

As a response to a controversial issue that is sweeping the country, California passed a bill known as the TRUST act, commonly referred to as the Anti-Arizona, that will prevent racial profiling by police and allow local governments to ignore federal requests to detain orderly immigrants for deportation.

"I think this policy was flawed in that it pits sheriffs throughout the state between undocumented immigrants and federal authorities,” Michael J. Rubio, California State Senator, said to CNN.

A trailblazing legislation, the bill was proposed as a response to Arizona’s Immigration act SB 1070 that allows police to verify with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) an immigrants status if police believe the suspect to reside in the country illegally. The bill has garnered acknowledgment on both sides of the issue.

“The Trust Act repairs the relationship between the local police and the immigrant residents they serve and protect,” Angela Chan, senior staff attorney of the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus, said to CNN.

Serving as an opposition to the Supreme Courts’ decision to uphold SB 1070, Anti- Arizona will allow police to disregard requests from ICE to detain an illegal immigrant, except in cases where the suspect poses a serious threat.

The Senate approved the TRUST act 21-13. Now that the law has passed the Senate it will be sent to the Assembly for approval. For more information on Anti-Arizona or Anti-Immigration, check out CNN’s coverage.