The United States vs. California

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🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Donald Trump takes his first trip to California as president tomorrow. Making matters awkward, his administration sued the Golden State last week over SB 54, a law that limits how much the state helps federal immigration agents. KQED reporter Marisa Lagos explains the legal battle, and Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims talks about being stuck in the middle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.6	One year and 52 days into his presidency, Donald Trump is finally going to California tomorrow.
0:34.2	The last time it took a president this long to visit the Golden State, it was because he
0:38.0	had to take a train.
0:40.1	So what took so long?
0:43.6	California's leaders are an open defiance of federal law.
0:48.2	They don't care about crime.
0:50.1	They don't care about death and killings.
0:52.8	They don't care about robberies.
0:54.9	They don't care about the kind of things that you and I care about.
0:58.6	Well, you know, Trump has a very tortured relationship with California.
1:02.2	Marisa Lago covers California politics for KQED in San Francisco.
1:07.0	She says this tortured relationship began early in the Trump presidency, like week one.
1:12.4	This really started with Trump's now sort of infamous immigration executive order, which
1:18.0	I mean, I think by the end of January, early February, a bunch of those executive orders
1:22.2	had been signed.
1:23.6	And we saw it's part of those executive orders.
1:26.7	There was language seeking to strip law enforcement funding from any sanctuary jurisdiction.
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