Rob Bonta

We were able to get the unlawfully federalized National Guard out of California after six months of fighting tooth and nail.

And, you know, we're fighting on many fronts.

So that is a politician's answer, long answer to a short question.

I didn't imagine I would be doing this, but our life has changed considerably, but we continue to do all the things we were doing before.

Plus on top of that, we've added the important work of holding a president accountable when he breaks the law.

Sure, and it's not a term I prefer.

I prefer to say a pro-public safety, pro-community trust state.

Okay.

As enshrined in our California Values Act, which you've referred to, passed in 2017 during Trump 1.0.

And it basically says that

the limited and vital criminal law enforcement resources of California will focus on crime.

They'll focus on tackling crime like murder and rape and robbery and assault and battery and not be used with some exceptions,

to engage in civil immigration enforcement, particularly when there is a whole set of federal departments and agencies that enforce immigration laws, ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, among them.

And so that is fully within our 10th Amendment rights to take that position, to wanna focus on crime, to take the position that when victims feel safe and able to come forward, when witnesses can come forward and report crime to law enforcement, then crimes will get solved and communities are safer.

And certainly the federal government can enforce federal immigration law if they do that lawfully and the states cannot obstruct or interfere.

But the anti-commandeering principle of the 10th Amendment, which provides strong rights for states, and the 10th Amendment basically says that all powers that are not delegated to the United States government or prohibited from the states from having are provided to the states or the people.

And that is where this anti-commandeering principle exists, where it says that

The federal government can enforce federal law, but they can't force states to do their job for them.

They can't commandeer them, conscript them, draft them into service, force them to do the federal government's job for it.

So that is essentially what happens.