CALIFORNIA/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The candidates running for governor reacted in familiar ways to news Tuesday [3-6-18] that the Trump administration is suing California over its immigration policies, with Democrats calling for insurgency and Republicans rejoicing.
Businessman John Cox, a GOP candidate, released a minute-long radio ad seeking to tie California and San Francisco sanctuary policies with the tragic death of a young woman who was killed in that city in July 2015… Cox notes that a San Francisco jury declined to convict the man accused in her death. He then pledged to overturn the state’s so-called ‘sanctuary state’ law, which he attributes to Newsom and Gov. Jerry Brown…
Assemblyman Travis Allen of Huntington Beach, Cox’s Republican rival in the race, has been calling on the Trump administration to prosecute California elected officials over the state’s immigration’s policies. He welcomed Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions’ arrival in Sacramento for a speech Wednesday announcing the legal challenge… Democrats, meanwhile, pledged to fight the Trump administration over the lawsuit, filed in federal court late Tuesday. It seeks to invalidate three state laws that the administration argues violate the federal government’s authority over immigration policy.
The laws make it a crime for business owners to voluntarily help federal agents find and detain undocumented workers, prohibit local law enforcement from alerting immigration agents when detainees are released from custody and create a state inspection program for federal immigration detention centers… Democratic State Treasurer John Chiang pledged to defend the state’s immigration policies if elected governor… Antonio Villaraigosa, the former mayor of Los Angeles and another Democratic gubernatorial candidate, said policies that nurture cooperation between immigrants in the country illegally and law enforcement made his city safer.”
-Seema Metha, “California’s candidates for governor react to Trump administration lawsuit over immigration policy,” The Los Angeles Times online, Mar. 7, 2018 07:54am