Donald Trump is planning on rounding up all the illegal immigrants and deporting them to their rightful homes, but in California that's not gonna fly.
California hates the idea of deportation so much that the state is apparently threatening to charge police officers in El Cajon with felonies (and take away their pensions) should they comply with Trump's order.
Mayor Bill Wells tells the story:
I want to make it clear right now that El Cajon is not a sanctuary city. We're going to do everything we can to help the federal government to help ease this immigration problem, to help solve this problem.
The problem we're facing in El Cajon is that state law, State of California law, says that if a police officer does his duty, that we're asking him to do by complying with the federal government, that police officer can be charged with a felony and lose his pension.
El Cajon is a 30-minute drive from the border, so Mayor Wells has reason to comply with Trump's order when the time comes.
The law he's speaking about here is California's SB-54, which states in part,
This bill would, among other things and subject to exceptions, prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies, including school police and security departments, from using money or personnel to investigate, interrogate, detain, detect, or arrest persons for immigration enforcement purposes, as specified, and would, subject to exceptions, proscribe other activities or conduct in connection with immigration enforcement by law enforcement agencies.
Mayor Wells says California is now threatening to charge officers with a felony and even take away their pension if they should follow Trump's orders and help deport non-citizens.
One commenter pointed out the obvious:
And we've already heard Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, speak on this:
It's a felony if you knowingly conceal or harbor an illegal alien from immigration authorities. It's also a felony to impede a federal law enforcement officer.
This puts local California law enforcement in quite the pickle.
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