About the California Values Act (SB 54, 2017)

​"California Values Act" one-page overview of key provisions [English] (2017)
Letter and memo detailing why Trump's threats against state and local officials in sanctuary jurisdictions are baseless (American Civil Liberties Union, 2025)
​"Setting the Record Straight about Sanctuary Policies: A Response to Threats Against Sanctuary Cities" resource clearly reiterating the legality of sanctuary policies and the protections that state and local jurisdictions have against coercion by the federal government (National Immigration Project, 2025)
Letter from over 100 law professors explaining that SB 54 is legally sound and good policy (2017)
"Turning the Golden State into a Sanctuary State" report on the implementation and impact of SB 54 (Asian Law Caucus, Border Criminologies, University of Oxford, 2019)
"How does the sanctuary state law SB 54 protect you?" explainer palm cards (2018)

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More Information and Resources About SB 54

The harmful impact of government agencies' collusion with ICE

"Profile, Tag, Deport: CDCR Betrays California’s Values" report illustrating how California prisons systematically profile and report suspected immigrants to ICE (American Civil Liberties Union, Asian Prisoner Support Committee, Asian Law Caucus, Root & Rebound, 2023)
"Collusion in California’s Central Valley: The Case for Ending Sheriff Entanglement with ICE" report (ACLU NorCal, 2022)
"Stop ICE Transfers: Promoting Health, Unifying Families, Healing Communities" report (Human Impact Partners, Asian Law Caucus, Asian Prisoner Support Committee, 2020)
"The State of Orange County: An Analysis of Orange County's Policies on Immigration and a Blueprint for an Immigrant Inclusive Future" report revealing that it cost Orange County more money than ICE was paying it to house immigration detainees (2019)
"L.A. County Sheriff's Department Cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement" report showing that the County spent an estimated nearly $1.4 million each year to accept and process ICE civil detainers (Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission, 2019)
"The Human Rights Consequences of LASD-ICE Collaboration: A Toxic Entanglement" report identifying human rights violations in Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's collaboration with ICE (ICE Out of LA, International Human Rights Clinic at the UCLA School of Law, 2017)
​"The Cost of Responding to Immigration Detainers in California" report showing that, in the early 2010s, California taxpayers were spending an estimated $65 million annually to detain people for ICE (Judith Greene, Justice Strategies, 2012)

Understanding how local law enforcement colludes with ICE

"What are ICE Transfers? Understanding California’s Major Role in Funneling Immigrants into Deportation" zine (510 Crew, 2020)
"What Are ICE Transfers?" explainer video (Chanthon Bun, Asian Law Caucus, 2022)
"From Prison to ICE to Freedom: A Handbook for Immigrants Inside" (Asian Law Caucus, Asian Prisoner Support Committee, 2020)
"ICE Out of California" fact sheet about how ICE and local law enforcement work together (Asian Law Caucus, 2015)

Learn about policy advocacy to push ICE out of California

Legislative advocacy toolkit to learn about how to lobby for or against legislation (Immigrant Legal Resource Center, 2024)
"Expose & Disrupt" guide to using Public Record Act (PRA) requests to challenge immigration enforcement in your community (Immigrant Legal Resource Center, 2024)
"Local Policy Interventions for Protecting Immigrants" resource for local governments seeking to enact or strengthen local protections for immigrant community members (Immigrant Legal Resource Center, 2020)