"Her bill aims to protect individuals who exercise their right to monitor or record law enforcement activities. California's sanctuary law was enacted in 2017 during Trump's first term to limit state and local law enforcement agencies' involvement in federal immigration enforcement operations involving people without a violent criminal record. Nevertheless, Pérez said, ICE has called on local law enforcement agencies to keep members of the public who have a right to monitor or document ICE activities from doing so."
"A state lawmaker from Los Angeles County has introduced legislation meant to prevent local law enforcement officers from being "commandeered" into helping federal immigration officials carry out President Donald Trump 's mass deportation program. The Protect California Rights Act, introduced by Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, D-Alhambra, would clarify that state and local law enforcement agencies cannot aid federal agents during operations involving what she described as racial or identity profiling, the criminalization of protected free speech or the use of "unauthorized military weapons" against Californians."
The Protect California Rights Act would clarify that state and local law enforcement agencies cannot aid federal agents during operations involving racial or identity profiling, criminalization of protected free speech, or the use of unauthorized military weapons against Californians. The measure would protect individuals who exercise their right to monitor or record law enforcement activities. California enacted a sanctuary law in 2017 to limit local involvement in federal immigration enforcement for people without violent criminal records. ICE has asked local law enforcement to keep members of the public from monitoring or documenting ICE activities. One reported incident involved a police perimeter preventing observers at an ICE operation.
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