The Trump administration had asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court's opinion upholding the law, which limited local police cooperation with federal immigration agents.
that placed statewide limits on local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Under the law, SB 54, local police are barred from notifying US Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they are holding a suspect. They are also barred from transferring a detainee to ICE custody unless that person has been convicted of a felony under California law, had been jailed for a felony within the past 15 years, or served time in the previous five years for a misdemeanor that could have been charged as a felony.
In March 2018, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against SB 54 and two other so-called sanctuary laws, arguing that they conflict with federal immigration laws and activelyBut a federal district court judge refused to issue an injunction on the parts of SB 54 being challenged by the Trump administration.
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