California lawmakers seek to fight Trump deportation efforts | Reuters
By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - California lawmakers planned on Monday to introduce legislation that would help protect undocumented immigrants under the administration of President-elect Donald Trump, who campaigned on hard-line promises of mass deportations.The bills, if passed, would provide free legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation and assist them in criminal court, according to the California Democratic lawmakers introducing the proposals.Trump, a Republican elected on Nov. 8, promised to deport a large chunk of the estimated 11 million migrants who are in the United States illegally.The California effort marks the first major state attempt at passing laws targeted at helping migrants since Trump's election, said Muzaffar Chishti, director of the Migration Policy Institute office at the New York University School of Law. The mayors of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago have vowed to limit cooperation with federal authorities seeking to deport undocumented immigrants under the incoming Trump administration.
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