Saturday, May 22, 2010

California Penal Code

Check this out. There's more hypocrisy here than I can wrap my tiny little brain around. My buddy David sent me an email talking about the California Penal Code mirroring Federal Immigration Law. Of course, I called bullshit and started an internet search of the California Code. Look what I found:
834b. (a) Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully
cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization
Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is
suspected of being present in the United States in violation of
federal immigration laws.
(b) With respect to any such person who is arrested, and suspected
of being present in the United States in violation of federal
immigration laws, every law enforcement agency shall do the
following:
(1) Attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a citizen
of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent
resident, an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time
or as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of
immigration laws. The verification process may include, but shall not
be limited to, questioning the person regarding his or her date and
place of birth, and entry into the United States, and demanding
documentation to indicate his or her legal status.
(2) Notify the person of his or her apparent status as an alien
who is present in the United States in violation of federal
immigration laws and inform him or her that, apart from any criminal
justice proceedings, he or she must either obtain legal status or
leave the United States.
(3) Notify the Attorney General of California and the United
States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal
status and provide any additional information that may be requested
by any other public entity.
(c) Any legislative, administrative, or other action by a city,
county, or other legally authorized local governmental entity with
jurisdictional boundaries, or by a law enforcement agency, to prevent
or limit the cooperation required by subdivision (a) is expressly
prohibited.


It looks like California Law mirrors Federal law, just as Arizona law does. Ain't that amazing?

2 comments:

Rivrdog said...

...and ain't it amazin' how all those tens of thousands of Kali LEOs can ignore those codes?

Somewhere in that myriad CPC, I'd bet they have written a "King's-X" into the Penal Code. It's either in the form of a "racial profiling" prohibition to prevent the exercise of "suspicion" in 834 (b)(a)(b), or there is a court decision that holds the whole section in abeyance.

There are a few good sheriffs in Kali, esp. Eastern Kali, and that law would be enforced out there if it could be.

If I am incorrect, then the entire state is so corrupt it ignores it's own Penal Code, and militias should be formed to enforce it, as they have had to be several times in Kali's turbulent past.

Flintlock Tom said...

When I first heard of this P.C., on conservative talk radio, it didn't surprise me at all.
At one time California used to be a respected part of the republic.
I was born here, but I fully intend to be elsewhere when I die.

Tom in San Diego (but not for much longer)