By Matthew Miranda | Sacramento Bee
In a significant shift from anti-immigrant policies of the 1990s, California now leads the nation in helping undocumented residents — issuing driver’s licenses, protections from deportation, COVID-19 pandemic relief, health care and, most recently, food assistance.
These wins coincide with the Latino community exploding to 40% of the state population, and speaks to the growing influence of the lawmakers representing them over the last 10 years.
In that time, the California Latino Legislative Caucus — a group that only welcomes Democrats — has championed policies at a more successful rate than the Legislature average and reshaped how the state treats its undocumented immigrants.
An analysis of the group’s priority legislation — an annual set of bills members vote to support — shows that the caucus turns its bills into laws 54% of the time.
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