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Activists Plan to Shut Down ICE

A coalition of Hispanic activist groups has announced a plan to take it upon themselves to “shut down” another federal agency next Monday. At a news conference outside the Phoenix Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) office, activists announced a “day of action” against ICE. Organizers say the Obama administration is about to set a shameful…

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California limita detención de inmigrantes – Yahoo Noticias

El gobernador de California Jerry Brown promulgó el sábado un paquete de iniciativas de ley relacionadas con inmigración, incluida una que prohíbe a agencias judiciales locales detener a personas para deportación si fueron arrestadas por un delito menor que les permita ser elegibles a obtener la libertad. El proyecto de ley AB4 del asambleísta demócrata Tom Ammiano crea un estándar estatal sobre cómo deben las agencias locales cumplir con el programa federal de Comunidades Seguras, el cual exige a agentes judiciales revisar el estatus de inmigración de la gente que sea arrestada y retener durante 48 horas a cualquiera a quienes las autoridades federales deseen detener. La ley que firmó Brown permite a la policía estatal y local, así como a los departamentos del alguacil, detener a inmigrantes solo si han sido arrestados o declarados culpables por ciertos delitos graves o violentos.

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Villaraigosa, Ammiano, and key leaders celebrate California TRUST Act, Urge other states and feds to follow CA’s lead

    Signing of TRUST expected to propel national immigration debate in new direction     When: Monday, Oct. 7, 10:30 AM  Pacific / 1:30 PM  Eastern Who: Confirmed speakers include –  Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, D – San Francisco Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning undocumented journalist and founder of Define American Rabbi Ken Chasen, Leo…

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Governor signs ‘TRUST Act’ limiting the detention of immigrants | news10.net

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that prohibits local law enforcement agencies from detaining people for deportation if they are arrested for a minor crime and otherwise eligible to be released from custody. Assembly Bill 4, also known as the “TRUST Act,” was designed to counteract an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that critics of the program say has led to nearly 100,000 Californians classified as “dangerous criminals.” AB 4 aims to give illegal immigrants in California “protection from overzealous immigration enforcement,” according to a statement from a spokesperson for the bill’s sponsor, Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco.

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