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The silly people.
Moments after the governor spoke, they opened a new session by directly confronting Trump’s tough-on-immigration rhetoric, which has included calls to deport millions and block immigration by Muslims, in passing a resolution rejecting the president-elect’s hardline stance.
The resolution states that “California stands unified in rejecting the politics of hatred and exclusion” and exhorts Trump “to not pursue mass deportation strategies that needlessly tear families apart, or target immigrants for deportation based on vague and unjustified criteria.” Lawmakers paired the call with announced legislation to fund legal services for immigrants facing deportation and allocate money for training public defenders in immigration law.
Other proposed bills would bar providing the federal government with religious information that could be used for a database of American Muslims, let Californians vote down a border wall in environmentally sensitive areas and prohibit the state from contracting with for-profit immigrant detention companies.
“We have all heard the insults, we have all heard the lies, and we have all heard the threats,” said Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Paramount. Speaking of an undocumented immigration population that is the nation's largest, he said, “if you want to get to them, you have to go through us.”
Jerry Brown says U.S. can’t ‘go rogue’ on climate change, while lawmakers blast Donald Trump
Moments after the governor spoke, they opened a new session by directly confronting Trump’s tough-on-immigration rhetoric, which has included calls to deport millions and block immigration by Muslims, in passing a resolution rejecting the president-elect’s hardline stance.
The resolution states that “California stands unified in rejecting the politics of hatred and exclusion” and exhorts Trump “to not pursue mass deportation strategies that needlessly tear families apart, or target immigrants for deportation based on vague and unjustified criteria.” Lawmakers paired the call with announced legislation to fund legal services for immigrants facing deportation and allocate money for training public defenders in immigration law.
Other proposed bills would bar providing the federal government with religious information that could be used for a database of American Muslims, let Californians vote down a border wall in environmentally sensitive areas and prohibit the state from contracting with for-profit immigrant detention companies.
“We have all heard the insults, we have all heard the lies, and we have all heard the threats,” said Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Paramount. Speaking of an undocumented immigration population that is the nation's largest, he said, “if you want to get to them, you have to go through us.”
Jerry Brown says U.S. can’t ‘go rogue’ on climate change, while lawmakers blast Donald Trump
