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    Wednesday’s Briefing: ICE Plans Immigration Sweep in Sanctuary Cities; West Coast Sea Lion Population Rebounds

    By Robert Gammon


    1. Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are planning to conduct immigration raids and sweeps in sanctuary cities in the Bay Area, reports Hamed Aleaziz of the San Francisco Chronicle, citing an unnamed source. ICE officials are angry that sanctuary cities, like Oakland, Berkeley, and Alameda, have refused to help them deport undocumented immigrants — and that Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation in October making California a sanctuary state.

    2. The West Coast sea lion population
    has tripled in the last 40 years to more than 250,000, reports Paul Rogers of the Mercury News$, citing a new federal study. “Federal biologists say strict environmental laws to protect marine mammals have worked so well that California sea lions have become the first marine mammal that lives along the entire West Coast to recover to its natural carrying capacity. That’s the maximum population size a species can reach based on an area’s available food.”

    3. The costs of California’s high-speed rail project, connecting Southern California to the Bay Area, continue to soar, with the
    estimated cost of the first 119 miles of track jumping $2.8 billion to a total of $10.6 billion, reports Ralph Vartabedian of the LA Times$. The price spikes were “mainly driven by … higher costs for land acquisition, issues in relocating utility systems, the need for safety barriers where the bullet trains would operate near freight lines, and demands by stakeholders for the mitigation of myriad issues.”

    4. Congressional Republicans say they’ve reached a short-term spending deal to avoid a shutdown of the federal governmenton Friday, the Washington Post$ reports. Democrats say they won’t vote for the pact because it doesn’t include a deal to extend DACA, the federal program that protects young undocumented immigrants who came to the country when they were children.

    5. And nearly all the members of the National Park System Advisory Board resigned in protest over the Trump administration’s refusal to meet with them, the Washington Post$ reports. Board members and park advocates are especially concerned with the administration’s plan to greatly increase user fees.

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    Northern California police refuse to cooperate in upcoming ICE raids: report

    Law enforcement officials from Northern California said they will refuse to assist federal authorities in the upcoming sweeps that aim to capture more than 1,500 illegal immigrants, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.

    The paper, citing an anonymous source, reported about a planned operation to be conducted by the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency. The report did not specify a date, but said it will be conducted in the near future.

    Law enforcement officials told the paper they have not been notified as of Wednesday, but said they would not provide support.

    Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf told reporters that police in her city will not assist ICE officials if the report on the raids is accurate.

    Federal officials’ ability to work with local jurisdictions was curtailed on Jan. 1st, after a new California law – SB54 – came into effect that limited inter-agency cooperation. The law officially made California the first “sanctuary state.”

    Thomas Homan, the acting director of ICE, said last month that federal immigration officials are prepared to protect local communities in California if local officials refuse to do so.

    Proponents of the law have argued that sanctuary laws are necessary to establish trust between immigrants and local law enforcement.

    The Oakland City Council on Tuesday passed a resolution that ends all cooperation between local police and federal immigration officials.

    Under the state’s law, California police are limited in their communication with federal agents on possible illegal immigrants in jail or awaiting trial.

    Homan called the resolution “unconscionable” and a “danger for local communities.”

    ICE has refused to comment on the operation because the agency does not release information on future operations.

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