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Newsom threatens to veto bill limiting state prison ICE cooperation

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) plans to veto a bill that would prevent the state’s prison system from collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement .

Assembly Bill 15 states that when California jails and prisons voluntarily and unnecessarily transfer immigrants eligible to release from state or local custody to ICE for detention and deportation purposes, these community members face “double punishment and further trauma” Newsom has previously vetoed this bill on two occasions.