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Two weeks ago, Esperanza, a mother of two young children, was driving to church in Mendota, California, when local police for having tinted windows. The officer issued Esperanza a fix-it ticket for the tinted windows and told her that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be showing up at her home. Within 30 minutes, ICE officers were at Esperanza鈥檚 door to arrest and deport her.

Esperanza is now in hiding.

Although alarming, Esperanza鈥檚 experience is commonplace in California and across the country. Approximately 70 percent of all deportations nationwide are the result of local law enforcement鈥檚 participation in federal immigration enforcement activities. This is where Trump鈥檚 deportation dragnet lies 鈥� in the arrests, hand-offs, and information-sharing between local law enforcement and federal immigration agents. The administration needs local law enforcement as its 鈥渇orce multipliers.鈥� Without their assistance, the Trump administration cannot dramatically increase deportations.

States and localities can reject the Trump administration鈥檚 reckless and inhumane deportation agenda.

This is why the Trump administration is so aggressively trying to bully local law enforcement to participate in deportations. Just this past week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would to agencies that do not cooperate with ICE鈥檚 detainers, even though courts have held that compliance with ICE detainers violates the Constitution. And, in a failed effort to spark fear and outrage, the administration released information about numbers of ICE detainer requests declined by local police, but the information was so misleading and erroneous it of even California鈥檚 most ICE-friendly sheriff.

President Trump has already unleashed his immigration agents to troll areas of public life previously considered off-limits for immigration enforcement, including areas around schools, hospitals, and . Survivors of violent and physical assault are for fear that testifying in court will expose them to deportation. Educators report that school attendance is , and report that immigrants are removing themselves from California health-care programs. This past week, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly unapologetically told California鈥檚 chief justice that ICE would immigrants in California鈥檚 courtrooms.

States and localities can reject the Trump administration鈥檚 reckless and inhumane deportation agenda by ensuring that its police forces and basic public services will not be used to facilitate deportations. And California鈥檚 state senate legislation that will do just that. will establish statewide standards to ensure that state and local resources are not used to deport thousands of Californians who belong here with their families and whose removal only serves to harm the children, families, and communities left behind.

The California Values Act would ensure that California residents have equal access to vital public services, including police, hospitals, schools, and courthouses, regardless of national origin and immigration status. With an unregulated, unbridled Trump deportation force, Californians now more than ever need the protection of California law.

In Esperanza鈥檚 case, the bill would have prevented police from calling ICE after they conducted a traffic stop, and it would have meant the difference between raising her children and facing permanent separation from them.

Esperanza鈥檚 story will be replicated thousands of times across the nation unless California, other states, and local communities step in to say no to using its state and local resources to aid deportation efforts.