AG Rob Bonta offers legal support and warns of potential scams targeting immigrants
by Thomas Hughes, Bay City News
December 24, 2024
State Attorney General Rob Bonta issued further guidance last week to immigrants in California about their rights under state and federal law and offered new model policies for public institutions like courts, hospitals and schools.
The attorney general’s advisory also warned of potential scams that could target immigrants.
Bonta convened with legal advocates and elected officials in San Francisco for the second of five regional meetings that the attorney general scheduled after Donald Trump was elected in November with threats of carrying out mass deportations across the country.
California became a sanctuary state in 2018, prompted by Trump’s first election. The law prevents local or state law enforcement from using resources to assist federal immigration authorities or making arrests of their own on that basis. It also affirms residents’ rights under the state constitution, regardless of immigration status.
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