As California defies federal immigration policy, calling itself a sanctuary, the state’s conservatives are pushing back

Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and poli sci, via The Washington Post, SF Gate, and The Mercury News, May 13 and 14, 2018

“Bringing up immigration is a way of mobilizing moderate, traditional Republicans here without bringing up Trump, who is not particularly popular,” said Louis DeSipio, a political-science professor at the University of California at Irvine. “At the grass-roots level, there may be opposition to this law and fear. But at the elite level, the elected political level, there is a strategic aspect to introducing immigration into the conversation now.”

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