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Contact We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. “As is protocol on any stop involving law enforcement, he pulled in behind to back them up.

This sanctuary state policy means that they cannot assist federal ICE agents when they are seeking to arrest and deport undocumented people for immigration violations.Despite the efforts of law enforcement groups like the California State Sheriffs’ Association, which lobbied against these legal protections when they were debated by state lawmakers in 2017, the state legislature overwhelmingly approved Senate Bill 54, known as the Still, some police officers have recently boasted about breaking state law and collaborating with ICE agents, according to messages recently posted in a private Facebook group and obtained by The Appeal.The social media comments raise questions about how effective California’s sanctuary policies actually are when police officers can subvert the law and continue working with ICE and Border Patrol.The Facebook comments obtained by The Appeal were part of a discussion started on Oct. 2, when a retired California Highway Patrol officer posted a question in a private group also named California Highway Patrol.“Are CHP officers being prohibited from working with ICE?” the retired officer asked. The group’s private status means that it appears in searches, but only members can see content such as the thread about working with ICE.“Well, Ironically enough I backed 3 ICE units up this morning on Bell St.,” CHP Officer Chris Kelly wrote in the comment thread.Kelly did not respond to emails sent to his CHP address or direct messages over Facebook, but according to CHP records, he works out of the highway patrol’s North Sacramento station.The Appeal provided a complete copy of the Facebook discussion thread to the highway patrol for comment. One of the main goals of SB 54, de León said, is to ensure that undocumented immigrants are confident that if they report crimes and cooperate with the police, their information won’t be given to federal immigration agents.Although the Facebook group is not an official account run by the highway patrol, it has over 12,000 members, including current and retired CHP officers as well as police and sheriffs deputies from other agencies. Golden Gate University Law Review Volume 5|Issue 1 Article 3 January 1974 Private Police in California: A Legislative Proposal Mark L. Webb James F. Harrigan Get illegal criminals out.”Further down the discussion thread, a retired state parole agent called Governor Gavin Newsom “Gavin Nazisom,” and another retired CHP officer chimed in that Border Patrol agents used to give boxes of ammunition to state police when they turned over undocumented people.Immigration advocates who reviewed the officers’ comments expressed dismay that police would casually discuss breaking state law to help ICE and Customs and Border Protection deport people.“These brazen admissions cry out for investigation, accountability and action,” said Jon Rodney, a spokesperson for the Immigrant Defense Project.

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U.S. We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press. At least one current CHP officer gave a “thumbs up” to the comment.Another retired CHP officer wrote, “Yes cooperate.

“I said BS i will call them if I get a load vehicle,” he continued, referring to a car containing drugs or other contraband. The officer did not know they were ICE agents until they got out of their cars. Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue. “I will just do my duty to my oath in any encounter.”Former state Senator Kevin de León, who authored Senate Bill 54, said that the CHP remained neutral when the bill was being considered in 2017, and that he believes the Facebook comments of a few are not representative of the average police officer’s beliefs.“This small minority is by no means a reflection of the outstanding men and women who serve us every day in the CHP,” said de León.But he added that even a small number of rogue officers can undermine trust between California’s millions of immigrants and law enforcement.