369 | Why California Has and Needs its Immigration Sanctuary Laws w/Angela Chan
369 | Why California Has and Needs its Immigration Sanctuary Laws w/Angela Chan  
Podcast: Public Defenseless
Published On: Tue Jul 01 2025
Description: Today, Hunter was joined once again by Angla Chan of the San Francisco Public Defender Officer. This time, the two say down to discuss the history of sanctuary laws in California, why they are so important, and reflect on the reasons why people leave their home countries in the first place.     Guest Angela Chan, Chief of Confront and Advocate, San Francisco Public Defender's Office     Resources: Gov. Newsom's history with ordering juvenile probation in SF to turn youth over to ICE when he was SF Mayor in 2008. His "regret" over his prior actions in 2018 when he was running for governor. stories of Southeast Asian refugees who were incarcerated firefighters who CDCR turned over to ICE. SF Public Defender Office https://sfpublicdefender.org/ https://www.facebook.com/sfpublicdefender https://x.com/sfdefender https://www.instagram.com/sfpublicdefender/ https://bsky.app/profile/sfpublicdefender.sf.gov American Interventionism https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400 Guatemala https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jacobo-arbenz-guzman-deposed/ https://hmh.org/library/research/genocide-in-guatemala-guide/ https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/the-guatemala-genocide-case/ Laos https://www.history.com/articles/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/27/i-dont-want-more-children-to-suffer-what-i-did-the-50-year-fight-to-clear-us-bombs-from-laos https://www.mnvietnam.org/story/the-cia-the-hmong-and-the-secret-war/index.html https://winwithoutwar.org/secret-war-forgotten-war-the-u-s-bombing-of-laos/ Cambodia https://www.history.com/articles/nixon-war-powers-act-vietnam-war-cambodia https://macmillan.yale.edu/gsp/us-involvement-cambodian-war-and-genocide-0     Contact Hunter Parnell:                                 Publicdefenseless@gmail.com  Instagram @PublicDefenselessPodcast Twitter                                                                 @PDefenselessPod www.publicdefenseless.com  Subscribe to the Patreon www.patreon.com/PublicDefenselessPodcast  Donate on PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5KW7WMJWEXTAJ Donate on Stripe https://donate.stripe.com/7sI01tb2v3dwaM8cMN Trying to find a specific part of an episode? Use this link to search transcripts of every episode of the show! https://app.reduct.video/o/eca54fbf9f/p/d543070e6a/share/c34e85194394723d4131/home