Immigrants Rally For Anti-Deportation Bill In California

Anti-Deportation Bill Advances In California
CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 27: Protestors demonstrate calling for immigration reform in front of the Illinois GOP headquarters on June 27, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Today the U.S. Senate passed an immigration reform bill with broad bipartisan support that would overhaul immigration laws for the first time in more than two decades. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 27: Protestors demonstrate calling for immigration reform in front of the Illinois GOP headquarters on June 27, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Today the U.S. Senate passed an immigration reform bill with broad bipartisan support that would overhaul immigration laws for the first time in more than two decades. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

SACRAMENTO -- Undocumented immigrants rallied in the Capitol on Tuesday to support legislation aimed at reducing deportations, as California lawmakers continued tweaking the bill in hopes of winning Gov. Jerry Brown's support.

The measure (AB 4), known as the Trust Act, would limit local law enforcement from working with federal authorities to detain immigrants who are in the country illegally unless they commit certain crimes.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), the bill's author, said overzealous deportations have been devastating to immigrant families.

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