FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 With days to go before the California June Primary Election, a topic of concern for a lot of voters is immigration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n
While President Trump has made it clear that his first duty is to protect American citizens and not illegal aliens, candidates have clashed over how the state should respond to the President\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n
After all, the president will still have two years left in office when the next Governor takes office.<\/p>\n
\u201cICE agents are enforcing the law,\u201d said Republican and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.<\/p>\n
Democrat Tom Steyer countered, \u201cICE to me is a criminal operation. I\u2019ve said all along we should abolish ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n
Republican front-runner Steve Hilton has made it clear\u2014California should be growing its economy, but not by illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we need to help small businesses create jobs and opportunity and for Californians to be able to earn more and live the California dream and for entrepreneurs to want to start businesses in California,\u201d Hilton said, during a recent CNN Gubernatorial debate.<\/p>\n
Democrat and former Representative Katie Porter argued immigrants are essential to the state\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are Californians. They contribute to our economy. They pay taxes,\u201d Porter said.<\/p>\n
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Her fellow Democrat and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan took his criticism even further, saying, \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s cruel and indiscriminate enforcement based on the color of people\u2019s skins, the language they\u2019re speaking, has terrorized the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 With days to go before the California June Primary Election, a topic of concern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-325181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}