Valley organizers rally over state and federal immigration policies

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Immigrant rights advocates gathered successful downtown Fresno to dependable concerns implicit policies and authorities they judge unfairly people those who are undocumented.

"Will origin immigrants who are precise overmuch bully immigrants, bully workers, radical that are contributing to the community, they'll beryllium caught successful that nett and they could beryllium deported," said Stan Santos with the Fresno Immigrants Rights Coalition.

Santos says he's upset astir a societal media video successful which Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni and Supervisor Nathan Magisg called for betterment to SB54 past month.

The authorities instrumentality passed successful 2017 limits practice betwixt section instrumentality enforcement and national migration agencies.

Supporters accidental it allows constabulary officers and deputies to absorption connected nationalist information and gathering spot among each residents alternatively than deportation efforts.

However, critics reason it protects criminals who are successful the state illegally.

"We're conscionable talking astir being capable to prime up the telephone and pass with ICE, that's each we're doing is to say, 'Hey, this idiosyncratic is successful my custody,'" explained Sheriff Zanoni.

"That idiosyncratic inactive has to person been progressive successful transgression enactment oregon a transgression that's listed nether SB 54."

Sheriff Zanoni says he's not advocating to person ICE astatine the jail, lone to enactment with national partners erstwhile needed to support the community.

"It's ensuring that radical are held accountable to the highest standards of the law, the fullest grade of the law," said Sheriff Zanoni.

"Many of these radical erstwhile they spell backmost retired connected our streets, they reoffend."

Those who gathered adjacent O and Tulare besides expressed their vexation implicit the Laken Riley Act, which President Trump signed into instrumentality successful January.

It requires national authorities to detain immigrants who deficiency ineligible presumption and are accused of theft oregon convulsive crimes with the imaginable for deportation, adjacent earlier they are convicted.

"Our halfway strategy has laws. They did not work the Laken Riley Act that does distant with your time successful tribunal and a accidental to beryllium that you're innocent," said the President of the Central Valley Leadership Roundtable, Eliseo Gamino.

The instrumentality is named aft a 22-year-old nursing pupil who was murdered conscionable implicit a twelvemonth agone by an undocumented antheral connected the University of Georgia's campus.

Some advocates accidental it sparks fearfulness among communities successful the Central Valley.

"In each taste group, there's immoderate atrocious apples, but you instrumentality 1 lawsuit and you're going to justice a full taste group? That's not the American mode if you inquire me," said Gamino.

Congressman Jim Costa appeared connected ABC News Live with Kayna Whitworth past month, acknowledging his stance connected the legislation.

"About the Laken Riley act, it conscionable passed. Did you ballot for it?" asked Whitworth.

"Yes. I deliberation it was horrific a execution that took place, but we request to bash different things to support our citizens and to marque definite that they're harmless and I anticipation that we'll travel unneurotic connected a meaningful borderline information package," said Costa.

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