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Gov. Jerry Brown signs, vetoes bills affecting immigrant communities

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Alejandra Molina
The Press-Enterprise via the San Gabriel Valley Tribune
October 1, 2016


--- Quote ---Beginning in 2018, a new law will require authorities to inform undocumented immigrants in local custody of their basic rights to decline an interview with federal immigration officials or to have an attorney present.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed the Transparent Review of Unjust Transfers and Holds, commonly known as the TRUTH Act, which also requires local law enforcement agencies to provide immigrants the same information they share with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE...

Brown on Wednesday also signed into law SB1139, authored by Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, which will prevent a person from being denied admission into medical school solely based on immigration status...

But while immigrant rights organizations praised Brown for signing these two bills, they also criticized him for his decision to veto a bill known as the Dignity not Detention Act, also sponsored by Lara.

SB1289 would have made it illegal for a city, county or local law enforcement agency to enter into a contract with a private corporation to detain immigrants in civil immigration proceedings for profit...
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