Trump asks court to toss California ‘sanctuary law’

Bloomberg

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the US Supreme Court to throw out a California immigrant-sanctuary law that restricts local police from helping federal authorities round up and deport people who are in the country illegally.
In an appeal, the administration said the 2017 measure undermines federal immigration enforcement efforts.
The law “makes it more difficult for federal officers to identify, apprehend, detain, and remove aliens under the procedures specified by Congress,” US Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued. “The result is that more removable aliens — often with criminal records — are released into the community.”
The San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the measure in April, saying federal immigration law doesn’t require state authorities to actively assist with deportation efforts.
The state law bars local officials from holding an immigrant at the request of federal officials or telling those officials when an immigrant is about to be released from jail.