No single measure by California lawmakers will prevent the Trump administration from coming after the Golden State’s immigrant population. The battle against President Donald Trump’s campaign to instill fear in immigrants — of arrest, deportation, incarceration — will be waged in the courts at least as much as it will in the halls of the state Capitol.
Still, California’s Democrat-powered Legislature has passed a series of measures that, taken together, provide immigrant families with some protections against ICE raids and other intimidation tactics. It’s the most ambitious and voluminous set of such measures in the country, befitting a state whose 10.6 million immigrant residents comprise nearly a quarter of the foreign-born population of the United States.
