A 2018 law aimed to ‘Trump-proof’ California on immigration. What has it accomplished?
By Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Published: March 9, 2025, 6:00am
LOS ANGELES — Two days after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, California state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León canceled a flight to Germany and called his executive staff for a meeting.
They began to dissect the myriad ways Trump could “seriously hurt Californians” through policies and actions on the environment, freedom of choice and immigration.
The framework for landmark legislation on immigration — Senate Bill 54 — was born a few weeks later.
“We knew that we needed to do something to protect immigrants, and it wasn’t just something on a social media platform or a hashtag,” De León recalled. “We needed something with real teeth.”
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