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<br />AB 937 helps California realize its promise of protecting immigrant rights and teforming our
<br />criminal justice system. . _ immigration Detainees can find themselves housed in county jails
<br />and even private tacilitics anywhere in Amenea, taicilities beyond the oversight and
<br />accowrtability of the state ofCalifinnia where abuse and neglect is well docuuluented. All
<br />Californians, regardless of ciriwnship status, should get the chance to reiritegrcate back inn
<br />thou- conunwrilics and rounite with then- lan-nlics when they have paid thou- dchL to society.
<br />ICE regularly emplohs methods that range between inhumane and illegal. ICL was created in
<br />response to the Magic events of September 1 I, 2001, with a stated mission to protect the United
<br />States from cross -border crime and illeigil immigration that threaten stational sceiviry and public
<br />safcry. However, critics claim drat the agency has gained a nouaious record ofalluse, illegality,
<br />waste, and ineffectiveness fir carrying out its intended pwpose. TCR's abusive tactics are well -
<br />documented. They firclulc the separation of toddlers from thew patents, toteed sterilization, and
<br />inhumane tr-catnimt fir facilities. iCE has ther-ch e; camed a reputation amongst in>tnigration
<br />advocates as a dishonest and racist agency that regularly ignores legal lints. (,Yee. e.g., Afs. L. v.
<br />ICE (S.D. Cal.) No. 3:18-cv-00428, lilcd February 26, 2018; Flores v. (TUHLI)Id (C.D. Cal.), No.
<br />2.85-cv-04544-DM(i-A(;R, filed Tune 26, 2020; Crew eta[ v. IC'P (T).D.(:.), No. 1 20-cv-
<br />03120, tiled October 29, 2020.)
<br />ICE under the Obanra administration. Immigration advocates hewn criticizin£ ICI•, dtlrinp the
<br />Gcotvc W. Bush. HUWCVCr it was durinr~ the Obart a administration that intcmal rtimoval of
<br />innnitnants by WE reached what was then an all-time high. The Obania administration removed
<br />approximately 1,242,486 immigrants fi'onl the interior ofthe United States daring its hull eight
<br />years, averaging 155,311 removals per year. Data li-otn the earlier Bush administration arc
<br />more speculative. but they show an increase in deportations during the last halt of President
<br />Bush's administration. 'Mis increase continttcd daring President Obaim's titst rent bctin-c
<br />flattening and, finally, dropping rapidly in his second teen During his second temr, President
<br />Obama responcled to the outcry against the hot rates of deportation, which led to a pronounced
<br />shin in 16CUs to the renxrval ofrecent border crussers and criminals, ratter than orthiLl y status
<br />violators apprehended in the interior of the U.S. As a result. interior removals decreased sharply
<br />I�om 181,798 in FY 2009 to 65,332 fit FY 2016. Nevenheless, border removals stayed high and
<br />increased, from 207,525 to 279,022 over the same period. (See IransaclionaI Records Access
<br />Clearinghouse. Tfre Role q%ICE L)eluinery Undet-Bitsh and Obanra (Feb. 1, 2016), mWi/able ar
<br />htg7sJ/trac.syr.edu/itn111IW lliorl/reporls/458/.) President Obatnt switinarived this later policy as:
<br />"Pelops, not f�n>ilies. Criminals, not children. Gang rnernbers, not a mom who's worku� hard to
<br />provide lot her kids" (.See Bamek Obatna, Remorlcs by the President in Address to the Nation on
<br />lmmLi>rarion (Nov. 20, 2014), available, ntln),J/obamawhitehottse.atchiyes.gt)y/the-przss-
<br />ottice/7014/11 /20/remarks-president-aciclress-nation-invni i.ation.)
<br />WE'.s changed priorities under the Trump administration. The frump administration,
<br />however, changed the tcderal government's immigration entirrcemcnt priorities and tactics.
<br />Marry of those changes en>anute from Executive Order 13768:'Fnhancing Pud)IlC Safety in the
<br />Interior of the United States," which President Trump issued on Janikary 25, 2017, tive clays after
<br />Liking ollice. (Executive Ordel-No. 13769, 82 Fed. Reg. 8799.) President Trwnp largely echoed
<br />President Obarm in Itis rhetoric regarding his itnnigation enforcement priorities, stating that he
<br />tatepded n, filc'Lt5 on crinlinals. His 11cu4al polit ies, however, dralimucally expanded ate list of
<br />jpnnigrawn enfi)rcentenl priorities to include virtually every tutdocuntented person. Pursuant to
<br />CXCCutIVC orders from President TnI1I]n, on February 20, 2017, Dcoartntcpt of Homeland
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