Secure Communities opt-out bill advances

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano

This morning, a law that would allow California localities to decide whether or not to participate in a controversial immigration enforcement program passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee by a four-two vote.

The bill, if it passes the full Assembly and Senate, would let places like San Francisco and Santa Clara leave the fingerprint sharing program, which they say violates Sanctuary City policies and erodes law enforcement relationships with immigrant communities.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, chair of the committee, introduced the bill, called the Transparency and Responsibility Using State Tools Act, or “TRUST Act.”

The next action on the TRUST Act will likely take place in the Assembly Appropriations Committee in June. For more on the specifics of the bill, check out this post at our sibling site, KPCC’s Multi-American.

  • Anonymous

    Are you in a State whose political hierarchy have ignored enacting financial protections, from the flow of illegal aliens arriving there? Hopefully you are a resident of Arizona, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana, and Montana whose State lawmakers, have determined that they don’t want anymore economic refugees, that will be pouring into the Sanctuary States of California and Nevada and new potential welfare State of Utah. WHO WILL BE NEXT ON THE LIST OF EASY STATES TO GET FREE HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, WELFARE PAYMENTS AND MUCH MORE? IS YOUR JOB UP FOR GRABS? IS MARYLAND NEXT AS A SANCTUARY STATE?

    After failing to secure the border or put obstructions in the way of illegal aliens crossing the border or those lying to the immigration agent at the port of entry. This doesn’t give much credibility to either political party being candid with the American people. It’s not just Liberals who over three decades have only played at improving protection of US job market, or the huge financial deficits partially brought upon us, by handing out billions of dollars to foreign governments. We have been hoodwinked for so long into thinking the laws are enforced, that now the majority of the American people’s are just not going to listen to the propaganda now. Moderate Democrats are encircled by the frenzy of ultra-Liberals with an agenda, to maintain pacifying large blocs of a majority population. They have been promising admission to our welfare programs. The party is expecting in return votes from both ethno-centralists and in numerous States, non-citizens voting.

    Then we have lead Republicans who for as many years, have been offered favors by corporations and business an interminable flow of concession labor. Previous presidents, the House and Senate has superficially to close borders, whereas all the time slipping into our country a steady stream of mediocre skilled people in the form of six furtive amnesties. YES! There is constantly a need for top level workers, but not the pitiable of other lands that are in unfair competition taking jobs from low income Americans. Yet under our very noses of our people are foreign nationals, with no more skills than many Americans arriving from India. Then from across the world pregnant women who are fully sentient about loopholes in our immigration laws, that give foreign nationals traction on American soil, The 14th Amendment is bringing 300.000 females to America annually to intentionally cement their roots, by conceiving a child while here. In a breakdown of these laws, billions of dollars every year are conceded on to the birthright citizen child’s parents.Read the report in a Pdf file “Illegal Aliens and American Medicine.” and see one Texas hospital with 100 illegal aliens on Dialysis costing–YOU–the taxpayer a $100.000 dollars, yearly.

    Then if they are allowed to stay in the US, these low income recipients can collect welfare checks for every child born here; or a government check forwarded to the infant’s home in a foreign country. Currently the birthright law is under attack by the Republicans, with the hope of stopping this mockery, born at the ending of the Civil War. It should be noted when millions of Americans brace themselves to pay taxes on April 15th, under determined amount of illegal alien households get ready to celebrate a cash windfall of up to $5,750 from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Read at Google “Defrauding the American Taxpayer – The Earned Income Tax Credit and Illegal Immigration” It’s apparent Americans will not get any relief from either main leadership eternally, as both have shown little effort since the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli bill to construct the border fences, deploy troops to stop this dangerous extravaganza. Congress had at that time determined the best way to control immigration was to take away the incentive to enter the United States by preventing illegal immigrants from working or receiving government benefits. DID THIS HAPPEN? NO! Ththose cops who says it damages immigrant communities, better go and read statistics of the rising crime wave of illegal aliens in America at “The dark Side of Illegal Immigration.”

    When it comes to the protection of our country, we have all the money to protect Afghanistan and Iraq, but the previous administrations have intentionally disregarded laws to defend US jobs. We have always had the ability, but Congress has been minus the will. To much corruption and rot within the halls of power.We can only hope that Tea Party members in the senate or House stay their course and are not distracted by business campaign money or under the table gifts by lobbyists. This is why I joined the US TEA PARTY who have promised to enforce immigration laws, to mandate E-Verify, Secure Communities, 287 (G) and construct as initially intended the 2006 Secure Fence Act. All those Senators and Congressman/women who have pressed Washington, for any form Amnesty or Immigration reform will be unseated in the next election. It’s also imperative that we watch for illegal aliens voting in future election, as this happened in four States in the last midterm. We need either a countrywide ID biometric card, or the cross referencing of such documents as Passports, Drivers Licenses and State ID cards.