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Assemblymember Liz Ortega (D-East Bay) speaks about her bill, the No Taxpayer Dollars for Family Separation Act, during a June 17 We Are California press conference. (Andrea Valadez \/ CAL\u00d3 News)<\/p>\n
Privately owned detention center operators like GEO Group and Core Civic have reported record-high revenues since the beginning of President Donald Trump\u2019s second administration. A few of the Assembly bills the Senate is set to hear soon would ensure these companies and other big corporations pay their fair share of taxes and don\u2019t receive any taxpayer money.<\/p>\n
Brought together by We Are California (WRCA)<\/a>, a coalition of workers, advocates, faith leaders and lawmakers convened on Wednesday to call on the Senate and the governor to pass three bills dealing with taxes and immigration enforcement. They say the legislation could help generate billions in revenue for the state and send a clear message to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n Advocates came together to call on the Senate and governor to pass three bills dealing with detention centers and taxes. (Andrea Valadez \/ CAL\u00d3 News)<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve heard over and over that California can\u2019t do a lot when it comes to the federal government and what they\u2019re doing to our community, to our mothers, to our children,\u201d Assemblymember Liz Ortega (D-East Bay) said to the crowd Wednesday. \u201cBut AB 2465 flips the script and says, \u2018actually, we can. We can do a lot and we can do it with our tax dollars.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Ortega\u2019s bill<\/a> would make it so that no state dollars, including tax credits and state grants, are directed to any corporations that contract with the federal government for immigration enforcement purposes.\u00a0<\/p>\n The bill would also create a Due Process for All Fund that would direct the California state Controller to transfer the total amount of tax collected from those same corporations to be used by the Legislature for \u201cimmigration-related services and programs.\u201d AB 2465 requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate to pass before it heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope that [Newsom] will see this as another extension of what he\u2019s told our community and has said that he\u2019s going to have our back and is going to do everything in his power to fight back against this regime,\u201d Ortega told CAL\u00d3 News.<\/p>\n Advocates came together to call on the Senate and governor to pass three bills dealing with detention centers and taxes. (Andrea Valadez \/ CAL\u00d3 News)<\/p>\n Another tax bill, AB 1633<\/a>, would impose a yearly 50% gross tax on all private detention facility operators in the state. The tax would potentially result in billions of extra tax revenue for the state and would also pour money into the Due Process for All Fund.<\/p>\n \u201cThis bill does not regulate federal immigration policy, instead it uses California’s long-standing taxing authority to assess business activity taking place in our state,\u201d said bill author and Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) during a May 27 Assembly floor session. \u201cAB 1633 is about accountability, protecting California communities and ensuring laws do not reward private profiteering from human separation and suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n Though it doesn\u2019t deal with immigration enforcement, AB 1790<\/a>, a bill aimed at closing California\u2019s largest corporate tax loophole, has received support from WRCA, SEIU California and other advocacy groups.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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