A bill before the Legislature would limit cooperation between corrections and immigration officials. The Senate should pass it, and Gov. Gavin Newsom should sign it.
demonstrated the alarming extent to which the state prison system goes out of its way to report U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to ICE, often racially profiling people in custody. The agency has been “relying on racist assumptions and ignoring their own records,” according to a report by the ACLU of Northern California and others.
AB 1306 is an important step toward addressing these abuses and fully realizing recent reforms that allow resentencing and release to address past injustices. It will help ensure that qualified citizens and noncitizens alike have an opportunity to reunite with their families and communities., who was convicted of second-degree murder in 2002 after a man fired from the window of her van, killing a teenager, as she drove friends to Taco Bell in South-Central L.A.
Sixteen years later, after the state Legislature narrowed the felony murder law, a state judge vacated Castañeda’s conviction and ordered her freed. Yet rather than let her go home, prison officials arranged for Castañeda, a legal resident who had been in the U.S. since she was 9, to be transferred to ICE’s custody on the very day she was released.
The Senate should pass and the governor should sign this bill to ensure that the state stops unjustly denying second chances to rehabilitated immigrants who have paid their debt to society.
México Últimas Noticias, México Titulares
Similar News:También puedes leer noticias similares a ésta que hemos recopilado de otras fuentes de noticias.
Opinion: California needs companies to fully disclose climate risksInvestors need greater transparency to help build our green energy future.
Leer más »
Opinion: With global warming, Angelenos are being cut off from the most glorious places in CaliforniaYou might mock the muddied attendees at Burning Man, but their experience reflects the plight of nature lovers elsewhere cut off from wilderness by extreme weather.
Leer más »
Opinion: Housing initiative that actually works deserves full funding from California LegislatureIn an era in which 'affordable housing' costs $700,000-plus per unit, facilitating the construction of much cheaper ADUs is both smart and obvious
Leer más »
As climate change challenges home insurers, an 'uninsurable future' loomsCalifornia’s former insurance commissioner offers perspective on what insurance companies’ retreat from California means.
Leer más »
Opinion: Why negotiating drug prices won’t hinder new curesPublic investments contribute substantively to the emergence of new drugs and drug-related patents.
Leer más »
California sea lions are dying—now scientists know whyTwenty-two sea lions have been found dead on beaches in California, with many more found sick.
Leer más »