Union Pacific says its California police force won’t check immigration status

A photograph of a van that says Union Pacific Police on the van. Behind the van is a Union Pacific train.

Union Pacific’s (NYSE: UNP) police force will not ask for the immigration status of people it comes across on Union Pacific’s network in California, nor will the railroad work with any joint law enforcement task force whose sole purpose is to identify, detain or deport people who entered the U.S. illegally.

These actions are according to Union Pacific’s (UP) police force order, dated March 2020.

UP’s March order was in the news last week because the Southern California chapter of the American...

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