Arizona Immigration Law Is Also California Law

City officials in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento have passed ordinances that seek to economically punish the people of Arizona for taking steps to stop a wave of violent crime.  Arizona’s new law empowers local police to identify illegal aliens and turn them over to federal immigration officials for deportation.

These California politicians apparently don’t know the law in their own state.

Here are excerpts from the California Penal Code Section 834B (emphasis added to highlight consistency with the new Arizona law).

With respect to any such person who is arrested, and suspected
of being present in the United States in violation of federal
immigration laws, every law enforcement agency shall do the
following:

(1) Attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a citizen
of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent
resident, an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time
or as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of
immigration laws.  The verification process may include, but shall not
be limited to, questioning the person regarding his or her date and
place of birth, and entry into the United States, and demanding
documentation to indicate his or her legal status.

(2) Notify the person of his or her apparent status as an alien
who is present in the United States in violation of federal
immigration laws and inform him or her that, apart from any criminal
justice proceedings, he or she must either obtain legal status or
leave the United States.

(3) Notify the Attorney General of California and the United
States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal
status and provide any additional information that may be requested
by any other public entity.

This law has been in effect in California for decades.

Conclusion:

There is nothing new or radical about local police enforcing federal law,  or state laws that are mirrors of federal law as is the case in Arizona.   What is new is the Democratic party’s strategy of deliberate non-enforcement of of the Southern border because they believe that policy will cause American citizens of Latino descent to vote against Republicans.