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<br />deportation. In responsec to this, on February 26, 2018, the American Civil Liberties Union
<br />(ACLTT) filed Ale. T- v. TCF (..-D- Cal.), No. 1-19-cv-00d2S, a nationwide class action that sought
<br />tea Wilt and undo the 7Ytnnp admutistration's thmily separation policy. On June 26, 2018, the
<br />district court issued a preliminary injunction ordering the TJ.S. government to halt the family
<br />separation polic-_v, ;and to reunify all fintilies that had already been separated. the court also
<br />strycd the deportation ol' separated lan-rilics. The case is cUuTcntly Ongoing.
<br />However, it should be nowd that another particularly cruel form of tainily separation also
<br />occun-ed Under the Trtur,h administration due to TC.E. Many undocumented individuals lice with
<br />family members in comrrnunitics throughout the United Statcs. As a result of increased
<br />enforcement and raids by ICE otticials, such individuals have been apprrhendcd and detained in
<br />detention centers, severing their connections to their loved Ones, despite having no crmnmal
<br />record. (See Priscilla Alvarez, Familv separation mica the Tranrp admiltislralioa's imtn�l>ratiart
<br />legacy (Oct. 7, 2020), CNN, available at htg3sl/,A,ww.cnn.conn/2020/10/07/politics/n-u111P-
<br />Ermily-separation index.htrnl.) Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. a Syracuse
<br />University -based roscarch urg.411ization, created aprolile ol'dctamccs held un 217ICE
<br />detention centers. As of June 30, 2019, WE was holding 44,435 people in cu.stndy. Out of
<br />this group, 58 percent had no crunimal convictions, wInlc abOut 21 percent had convnitled a
<br />nninor inliaction, such a uallic violation; and 16 percent had connniued winat ICE
<br />considered a serious cruaie, which included otienses such as selling marijuana.
<br />Tnavactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Profiling Who IC'EDetains -Fery Committeel
<br />Atny Crime (Oct. 9, 2018), available at httpJ/u;tc.syr.edtdimmigration/repor(s/530/.)
<br />The impact of these policies, particularly of family separation at the border, is ongoing. As of
<br />October 2020, hundreds of separated rrmilics hats still not yet been reunited. Despite court orders
<br />to reunify dtcsc rnmilics (See Ms. L v. ICE. supra), pour ttcord-keeping incrt;ascd criminal
<br />prosecutions of adult family members, and deportations of parents w¢hout their children have
<br />1>utdered rouni ication efforts. (See Kaitlyn Dickinsor>. Parents of i4 i children separated at the
<br />border cannot be found (Oct. 21, 2020), New York Times, available at
<br />htttnsl/www.nvtimes.cnm/2020/10/21/us/nntirant-children-seaaratul.html.) For a htr more
<br />thorough review of 10E's history ol'abUuiing detainees, Uu nrg deceptive tactics to carry out its
<br />raids, mimimaging its hudgel. misleading Congress, and suuggling to carry out it core nnission
<br />to protect the safety of the nation, please sec the Conuautice's amlysis ofAJR 1 (Kalra), which
<br />proposes t) abolish 1CF,after hamslening its duties to other federal ollicer and agencies m an
<br />orderly L shion.
<br />Now that Donald Trutttp is no longer precitlent, why i.e the bill necessary? TO 2017, motivated
<br />by the Trunit) administration's cntcl and cxtrcnx utunigatiOn pOh6CS. California passed a
<br />number ofnneasures to protect residents of the state, inclUding uundocunnented immigrants -
<br />Among these were three "sanctuary bills": A13 450 (( W. ('loop. 492, Stats. 2017, dealing with
<br />irking atiun nnspcchun ufwurl:placcs), Ala 103 (Conunincc un Public Sal ty, Clutp. 17, Slats-
<br />2017, imposing inspection requirements on farcililies lhal mouse civil innmigranoo detainees), and
<br />ST3 54, aLso known as the "Values Act" (DeLeon, Chap. 495, Stats. 2017, linuting the
<br />cooperation between state and local law enfirrcement with federal inrrnigratioar authorities). In
<br />response to a Tnn»p administration challenge to the laws, the 91h Circuit Couat of Appeals
<br />upheld must parts olall three. ultluan (LI-S. t, Culi%ornia (90' Cir. 2019) 921 Fad Sbs- cert.
<br />denied, U.S. v. California (2020) 141 S. Ct. 124.) And while DOn;dd liauTTP's presidency may
<br />have inspired the Values Act, it is also true that the suffering and abuse of immigrant
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