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Companies that contract to build President Donald’s Trump’s proposed border wall might soon have a tough time doing business in California, if state and municipal lawmakers have their way.
Legislators in the statehouse and several major cities have proposed laws that would prohibit their governments from hiring firms that have done work on the wall, VICE News reported. A bill from two San Francisco City Supervisors goes a step further, proposing to cut ties with construction companies that so much as bid on the project, regardless of whether not they actually win a federal contract.
The San Francisco ordinance, introduced Tuesday by supervisors Hillary Ronen and Aaron Peskin, is one of several laws that have been proposed in California amid calls by activists and Democratic lawmakers to defend illegal immigrants from the Trump administration’s stepped-up deportation enforcement. Ronen tweeted Tuesday that her bill is not just a “symbolic protest” but concrete action to protect San Francisco’s “deepest values.”
A day before Ronen’s proposal, California Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting, introduced a bill that would force the state’s pension funds to divest from companies that are hired to work on the border wall. Ting, an Asian-American, invoked his immigrant heritage to bash the concept of a wall to keep unauthorized people from crossing the border.