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Xavier Becerra, the frontrunner in the race for California governor, has frequently drawn a line between deporting illegal migrants with criminal records and those without – at least in theory.

Even as the Trump administration has softened its deportation rhetoric in recent months, Becerra has continued to hit immigration officials for targeting those he says are  “on the verge” of getting their green cards. “These are not the criminals,” he says, “These are not the people that Donald Trump always talks about trying to go after.”

Becerra says the administration’s policies prove that President Trump was never really interested in going after only the criminals and the people who were “doing harm in California.”

Yet, Becerra, the son of Mexican-American immigrants who became a member of Congress, state attorney general, and secretary of Health and Human Services in the Biden administration, has avoided taking a position on whether taxpayer-funded nonprofits should be shielding serious criminals from deportation.

Becerra again this week took aim at Trump and promised to fight the administration’s deportation policies.

“We will do everything we can to make sure that we show the federal government that we’re not participating in their ICE raids and their ICE actions,” he said.

Yet Becerra has been far more reticent about how he would treat illegal immigrants with serious criminal records. The question is a pressing one for all California Democrats after Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, wife of state Attorney General Rob Bonta, sponsored a bill that would require the state to pay for an attorney for every illegal immigrant. She has declined to say whether the bill would bar people with violent felony convictions from accessing........

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