SECTION 1.
The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(a) President Trump issued an executive order on January 25, 2017, titled “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement” and created heightened fear and insecurity among many immigrant communities within this state and across the nation.
(b) The state has a moral obligation to protect its residents from persecution.
(c) Immigrants are valuable and essential members of the state.
(d) California enacted Senate Bill 54 of the 2017–18 Regular Session (Chapter 495 of the Statutes of 2017), making this state a “sanctuary state.”
(e) A registry of individuals identified by religion, national origin, or ethnicity, in a list, database, or registry, including that information, could be used by the government to persecute those individuals.
(f) President Trump has repeatedly signaled that he intends to require Muslims to register in a database.
(g) Trump advisers have invoked World War II Japanese American internment as a precedent for the proposed expansion of the registry.
(h) The United States Census Bureau turned over confidential information in 1943, including names and addresses, to help the United States government identify Japanese Americans during World War II for the purpose of relocation.
(i) President Trump has ordered a sweeping expansion of deportations and assigned unprecedented powers to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers targeting and terrorizing immigrant communities.
(j) President Trump has issued three executive orders banning entry from certain Muslim-majority countries.
(k) ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations issued a request for information on August 3, 2017, to obtain commercial subscription data services capable of providing continuous real-time information pertaining to 500,000 identities per month from sources such as state identification numbers, real-time jail booking data, credit history, insurance claims, phone number account information, wireless phone accounts, wire transfer data, driver’s license information, vehicle registration information, property information, payday loan information, public court records, incarceration data, employment address data, individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN) data, and employer records.
(l) The United States Department of Homeland Security published a new rule on September 18, 2017, authorizing the collection of social media information on all immigrants, including permanent residents and naturalized citizens.
(m) On September 8, 2017, ICE arrested hundreds of immigrants in intentionally targeted sanctuary cities.