Mass Deportations: State Immigrants

mass deportations: Democratic lawmakers also passed resolutions in both chambers urging the incoming administration to uphold a program for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants in the country illegally, despite intense protests from some Republicans, according to The Chronicle Herald. State Sen. California lawmakers on Monday urged President-elect Donald Trump to refrain from pursuing mass deportations and introduced urgent legislation to fund immigration lawyers and help public defenders protect the state immigrants. Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, introduced a bill to fund lawyers for immigrants in deportation proceedings, while Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda, proposed helping public defenders assess the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. This is a salvo, if you will, across the board to make it very clear that these are the values of California, Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, a Democrat from Los Angeles, told reporters. Related Iran president Trump won t be able to harm the nuclear deal Both measures were marked urgent and aim to protect immigrants in California which has more than 10 million foreign-born residents from Trump campaign promises of tougher immigration enforcement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.