Newsom Signs Laws To Limit ICE Actions at Schools, Hospitals

"Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a groundbreaking package of bills he said are California's response to "federal overreach" and to protect communities "terrorized by Trump's lawless raids." The new laws aim to prohibit federal law enforcement officers, including ICE, from hiding their identities, and make it less likely that federal immigration enforcement officers target children in classrooms and patients in hospitals."

""Public safety depends on trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve - but Trump and Miller have shattered that trust and spread fear across America," Newsom said in a statement. "California is putting an end to it and making sure schools and hospitals remain what they should be: places of care, not chaos." Our places of learning and healing must never be turned into the hunting grounds this federal administration has tried to make them out to be,"

"Families should be notified when immigration enforcement comes on school campuses, and establish that student information and classrooms are protected from ICE - and require a judicial warrant or court order to be accessed. Emergency rooms and other nonpublic areas in a hospital are off limits to immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant or court order, and it clarifies that immigration information collected by a health care provider is protected as medical information."

California enacted a package of laws limiting federal immigration enforcement actions to protect communities from raids and require transparency by officers. The laws prohibit federal officers, including ICE, from concealing identities and require officers to display name or badge numbers, with narrowly defined exceptions. The laws bar immigration enforcement from nonpublic hospital areas and emergency rooms without a judicial warrant or court order and protect immigration information collected by health care providers as medical information. Schools must notify families when immigration enforcement enters campuses, protect student information and classrooms from ICE access, and require judicial warrants for searches.

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