By Mariel Waloff, Crosscurrents from KALW News
It’s been a busy season for immigration issues. In June, President Obama announced that he would halt the deportations of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors. A week and a half later, the Supreme Court struck down most of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB 1070.
Meanwhile, in California, the TRUST Act, which some are calling the ‘anti-Arizona’ bill, passed in the state Senate and Assembly. In the next month, Governor Jerry Brown will decide whether to sign this legislation into law.
The TRUST act would enable California to opt out of several of the requirements of a controversial federal immigration program called Secure Communities. The federal program, known as S-COMM, asks local law enforcement to run the fingerprints of people they arrest through a federal immigration database. If a person is undocumented, they must report him or her to federal officials.
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