Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., plans to keep California’s resources away from President-elect Donald Trump’s deportation plans, maintaining that the federal government should be controlling the border.

“There’s an important distinction here. No state’s government — not Texas, not California, not any state in the nation — has a constitutional authority to impose federal immigration law. That is the responsibility of the federal government,” Padilla told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“Let the federal government do the federal government’s job, but have state and local officials do the state and local officials’ job. There doesn’t have to be a conflict unless that’s what Trump wants,” Padilla added.

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