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How are California’s State Legislature and/or local governments using their power to preserve state and local values in the face of conflicting Federal policies?
California’s State Legislation and its local government always use a lot of their power to preserve the state’s and its local values. Many of the values which many Californians have has been prevalent to the United States for such a long time. After 1988 California has consecutively deemed itself a reliable Democratic state with a large population of minorities within its borders. Since President Donald Trump began to hold office, California has demonstrated just how much they do not agree with much of his policies, especially his immigration reforms. California has been in the works of becoming a sanctuary state which even with the lack of federal money could still be able to maintain itself due to having one of the Sixth largest economies in the world. Even before California, as a state, becomes a sanctuary, many localities have already deemed their city sanctuaries such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Santa Ana.

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