Kevin De Leon is the California State Senate President Pro-Tempore and has been serving as such since 2014. He is well-spoken and completely, 100% certifiable. His advocating of illegals breaking the law as often as they like and not be held up to deportation is not a stunt or a political ploy. De Leon is dead serious and he intends on making the entire state of California a sanctuary state.
Courthouse News Service:
Over objections from sheriffs’ unions and the California Police Chiefs Association, the California Assembly Judiciary Committee took a step forward in making the Golden State a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.
State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon, D-Los Angeles, said his measure, Senate Bill 54 or the “California Values Act,” is intended to prevent state and local law enforcement from cooperating with what he calls the “Trump Deportation Machine.”
Opponents call it a “sanctuary state measure” that goes against federal immigration law and obstructs the ability of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to do their job.
De Leon said the bill is only necessary because of the election of President Donald Trump and his campaign promise to drastically reduce the number of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
“If Jeb Bush or Chris Christie or John Kasich had been elected, this bill would not be necessary,” De Leon said. “These are extraordinary times.”
“Under constitutional threats from the reckless Trump administration, SB 54 protects state and local law enforcement and resources necessary to keep our communities safe,” De Leon said. “ICE is out to arrest and deport honest, hard-working parents who obey the laws and pay their taxes and owe allegiance to the red, white and blue. Arrests of undocumented immigrants with no previous criminal record are up 150 percent since Trump became president.”
Assemblywoman Eloise Gomez Reyes is another advocate for illegals, being the daughter of Mexican immigrant parents herself. Her views, however, do not fall in line with traditionalism at all. In fact, it could be said that a Left-leaning Democratic issue is not Left enough for her. I don’t believe there is a single issue on the Left that is too far Left for her.
Assemblywoman Eloise Gomez Reyes said the measure is necessary not just for California, but for the nation.
“California must send a clear message that we will remain the last line of defense against the fear-mongering and xenophobia,” Reyes said. “Rather than addressing the failure of policy, the federal solution has been to demonize our immigrant communities.”
The biggest problem with SB54 is the fact that it disallows cooperation between investigation and law enforcement officials. It basically says that, yes, the ICE agents are allowed to do a raid, to take an individual on an expired visa, or to bust someone for being an illegal. BUT THEY’D BETTER NOT ASK FOR LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS’ HELP! This bill would block the federal agents from asking local law enforcement to provide them with information that would lead them to where the illegal is holed up or where they’re hiding out in the city. This is the equivalent of the Trump Election Fraud Commission being told by officials all over the nation that they states will not cooperate with the commission members because state law prohibits it. Therefore, illegals and felons and others ineligible to vote will in fact continue to vote. The same goes here. If ICE needs information, don’t even think about asking one of our local officers.
De Leon even goes so far as to say that this bill will not shield criminals from ICE agents. The president of the sheriff’s committee begs to differ.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, also president of the California Sheriffs Association, said sheriffs and deputies do not act as immigration police and that SB 54 protects criminals.
“We believe this bill provides sanctuary to criminals and makes our communities less safe,” Brown said. “SB 54 would result in many dangerous criminal offenders being released to our streets without proper communication and cooperation with immigration authorities.”
Brown said that due to the narrow definition of crimes that permit local law enforcement interaction, many criminals – including those convicted of burglary, multiple DUIs, spousal abuse and murder suspects who have not been convicted – would not be turned over to ICE.
But just check out the crimes that are not considered by De Leon to be that big a deal and will not be covered under the SB54 as a deportable defense.
Many of those arrested in the May 25 raids had ties to El Salvadoran prison gangs such as MS-13. About 90 percent had previous criminal records for a variety of crimes including drug offenses, domestic violence, DUI, sex crimes, battery, weapons violations, assault, burglary, fraud, vehicle theft, arson, cruelty to a child, robbery, obstructing justice, property damage, larceny, escape, manslaughter, prostitution, trespassing, incest, and receipt of stolen property.
Under SB 54, virtually all of these individuals wouldn’t be transferred to ICE after serving time for convictions since the measure specifies “serious felonies” – which doesn’t include most of the crimes precipitating the May 25 raids.
This is a terrible idea and a even more terrible advocate. De Leon should not be allowed to stay in office after his remarks that, to me, border on recklessness. He apparently doesn’t care that much for the legal part of his community.
Source: Courthouse News Service
Image: Russ Allison Loar
cut off all fed dollars
Cut their federal funding to keep them from using tax payer dollars to keep up illegals.
Absolutely no funding for them. Cease all commerce as well. Nothing in or out. They want to be on their own, so be it.
Ha ha. No fed funds for your stupid asss
Maybe all the Hollywood elite can hug them some refugees.
This mean “open season” in california?
We all knew they were gonna fall off the map one day. Looks like that day might come sooner than we thought
They should become their own country!