CORONA, Calif. - Immigrant advocates on Wednesday said police in Southern California flouted a state law aimed at protecting immigrants when they called border agents on a driver who showed a Mexican license. Eva Bitrán, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said 34-year-old Daniel Valenzuela was stopped by police in Corona in January for allegedly speeding and then was held while officers asked about his immigration record. U.S. border agents were called and they came and detained him. “The result of these violations was to tear apart a family,” she told reporters outside city hall in the community southeast of Los Angeles. Immigrant advocates in New Mexico, Chicago and elsewhere said earlier this year that they’ve seen police and others co-operate with federal immigration officials despite local “sanctuary” policies barring local law enforcement from doing so.

Source: thestar June 12, 2019 22:41 UTC