The Chief Justice of California continues to criticize federal immigration enforcement at the courthouses. Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye has forcefully called on federal immigration agents to stop looking in California’s courtrooms for people they suspect are living in the country Unlawfully. The Chief’s statements have been challenged by, among others, Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Yesterday, Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye said that she believes that it his her duty to speak out against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers arrested people in and around courtrooms, a practice she said has been “in full force.”
“If no one ever speaks out, then we can never be the land of the free and the home of the brave,” Cantil-Sakauye said at a panel discussion hosted by state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara.
Since President Donald Trump took office in January, people – those here legally and undocumented immigrants – are less likely to report crimes, to come forward as witnesses to crimes and to seek help if they are victims of crimes, Cantil-Sakauye said. That impedes public safety, infringes the constitutional rights of individuals and their access to justice and has led to a “tide of rising violence,” she said.
KJ
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