State Attorney General Rob Bonta requested on Dec. 4 that Californians report to his office any violations of state law—which limits the ability of state institutions, agencies, and local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement actions—in a statement issued “in response to the incoming Trump administration’s inhumane threats of mass arrests, detention, and deportations.”
Senate Bill 54—passed in 2017 and known as the California Values Act—blocks state and local agencies from using resources to assist immigration enforcement by arresting, detaining, detecting, interrogating, or investigating individuals suspected of entering the country illegally.
