The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place a lower court opinion upholding one of California’s sanctuary laws “that limits cooperation between law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, a measure that the Trump administration says is meant to “undermine” federal immigration enforcement,” CNN reported.
The California law “prohibits state officials from telling federal ones when undocumented immigrants are to be released from state custody and restricts transfers of immigrants in state custody to federal immigration authorities,” wrote Adam Liptak in the New York Times.
The Trump Administration sued California in 2018 in federal court, “accusing the state of unlawfully obstructing enforcement of federal immigration law and saying the measures violate the U.S. Constitution’s provision that federal laws take precedence over state laws,” noted Ted Hesson of Reuters.
“The case, which would have been heard next fall or winter, raised the broad issue of whether state and local governments can effectively provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants threatened with arrest or deportation,” wrote USA Today’s Richard Wolf.
The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 