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Trump allies warn California leaders, including LA Mayor Karen Bass, that they could go to prison over sanctuary city laws

Dec 28, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -35% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : " The state is home to several major cities with policies limiting cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities.
53% : " To carry out his plan to deport more people than any other president, Trump will need the cooperation of local officials.
51% : San Diego's newly enacted ordinance goes a step further than California's existing state "sanctuary" law, which only limits cooperation between local law enforcement and the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
50% : State prison officials regularly communicate with ICE about people in their custody, including U.S. citizens, public records show.
50% : "While we are unable to comment on the specifics of the letter, we want to be clear: SB 54 was upheld by the courts during the first Trump administration, and it prevents the use of state and local resources for federal immigration enforcement with certain narrow exceptions.
49% : After San Diego County took steps earlier this month to strengthen safeguards for undocumented residents, an organization led by President-elect Donald Trump's adviser Stephen Miller sent a letter warning that elected leaders and employees of "sanctuary" jurisdictions could be "criminally liable" if they impede federal immigration enforcement.
46% : That law, Senate Bill 54, contains an exception for state prisons, which regularly transfer ex-inmates who have completed their sentences to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation proceedings.
43% : Trump has named Miller to be his deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor.
39% : Since 2019, California's state prison system has delivered more than 5,700 formerly incarcerated immigrants to ICE, federal data shows.
35% : The law prevents jailers from notifying ICE about non-citizen inmates who are about to be released from local criminal custody unless they committed one of about 800 serious crimes.
34% : With Trump pledging to carry out the "largest mass deportation campaign in U.S. history," San Diego's board of supervisors enacted a policy on Dec. 12 prohibiting local law enforcement from communicating with immigration authorities about undocumented people in local jails without a judicial warrant.
18% : Trump advisers, including Miller, have been considering using federal pressure, such as withholding federal funds, against jurisdictions that won't cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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