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<\/a>California Gov. Jerry Brown addresses the delegates during Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on July 27, 2016. On Thursday, he signed a law designating California a sanctuary state. File Photo by Pat Benic\/UPI | License Photo<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
Oct. 5 (UPI) —<\/span>\u00a0Gov.\u00a0Jerry Brown<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday signed a law designating California a sanctuary state, “bringing a measure of comfort” to undocumented immigrants living there.<\/p>\n The law limits the ways state and local law enforcement agencies can cooperate and communicate with federal immigration officers.<\/p>\n It forbids local and state law enforcement officers from carrying out practices such as asking about someone’s immigration status, handing a person over to federal immigration authorities if there’s no warrant or establishment of probable cause and disclosing personal information about someone if it isn’t already public information.<\/p>\n The law also prevents local and state law enforcement from detaining someone over an immigration hold request.<\/p>\n Upon signing the legislation, Brown issued a\u00a0signing statement<\/a>, noting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security “are free to use their own considerable resources to enforce federal immigration law in California.”<\/p>\n “These are uncertain times for undocumented Californians and their families, and this bill strikes a balance that will protect public safety, while bringing a measure of comfort to those families who are now living in fear every day,” he wrote.<\/p>\n The law, which will go into effect in January, comes one month after a U.S. District Court\u00a0ruling in September<\/a>\u00a0said the U.S. Justice Department cannot withhold grant money from local governments, often called sanctuary cities, that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities to pursue suspected undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n