"Immigrants selling food, flowers, and other merchandise along the sidewalks of California will have new privacy protections intended to keep their identities secret from federal immigration agents. The measure, signed into law this past week by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, comes on the heels of other recently enacted state laws meant to shield students in schools and patients at health care facilities from the reach of President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement actions."
""The actions of the states really reflect the polarization of the country on this issue," said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports immigration restrictions. "We have seen some states move to cooperate to the greatest extent that they possibly can" with Trump's administration and others "doing what they can to try to thwart immigration enforcement in their state.""
California will prevent federal immigration agents from accessing identifying information about immigrants who sell food, flowers and other merchandise along urban sidewalks. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the measure, joining other state laws that shield students and patients from federal immigration enforcement. Democratic-led states are enacting protections while some Republican-led states require local agencies to cooperate with ICE, reflecting national polarization. State lawmakers nationwide passed over 100 immigration-related bills this year, split between measures offering and denying immigrant protections. Street vendors are vulnerable to enforcement because their outdoor public work makes them easier targets than people inside private homes.
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