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    California's Trust Act shaped the debate on the 'sanctuary state' proposal

    by By Jazmine Ulloa, Los Angeles Times Sep 10, 2017 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES _ Over the past few months, immigrant advocates have rallied at sheriff's departments, marched to the state Capitol and occupied the governor's office in a push for a California Senate bill that would limit law enforcement from questioning or holding people on immigration violations.

    The so-called sanctuary state bill, by Senate leader Kevin de Leon, a Democrat, has drawn national praise and rebuke, touted as part of a legislative package by Democrats to shield thousands of immigrants without legal residency from President Donald Trump's call for expanded immigration enforcement.

    But Gov. Jerry Brown has been in talks with elected county sheriffs over possible changes to the bill, SB 54, after expressing reservations about signing the legislation should it come to his desk, telling NBC's "Meet the Press" that some people here illegally who have committed crimes "have no business being in the country."

    For those who remember the passage of the bill's predecessor, the California Trust Act, the

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