{"id":88701,"date":"2017-02-09T19:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88701"},"modified":"2017-02-09T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:07:48","slug":"us-senator-leads-campaign-to-keep-california-a-sanctuary-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/09\/us-senator-leads-campaign-to-keep-california-a-sanctuary-state\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator leads campaign to keep California a sanctuary state"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the Trump administration pursuing their own agendas from immigration, to science and environment,California is raising the stakes in terms of battling against immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n

California Senate President Kevin de Leon leads the campaign to turn California into a sanctuary state. Introduced as the Senate Bill 54 or the California Values Act, this bill ensures the safety of immigrants by banning immigration enforcement as well as\u00a0<\/span>ensuring that state and local resources and revenue are not used for mass deportations.<\/p>\n

De Leon represents a district that is comprised of nearly 18% percent of the Asian community primarily, FIlipinos. In an interview with ABS-CBN\u2019s \u201cBalitang Amerika\u201d, the senator mentioned his encounter with the Filipino community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my mother passed away, she was very, very sick. As a result, she couldn\u2019t cook for us. So, the Filipino women in her network really stepped up and came through for us. That\u2019s [when] for the first time, I started eating chicken adobo, pancit and lumpia and white rice because they would cook up and show up at our house,\u201d he said.<\/span>
\nThis is just one among many pro-immigrant bills that has been introduced in legislation such as the banning of creating a Muslim registry and providing aid to the families facing deportation. It \u00a0garnered opposition from the Republicans. The President himself threatened to cut the state\u2019s federal funding.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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