Re: Newsom signs anti-ICE bill banning federal law enforcement from wearing masks

Loose Cannon wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:57:11 -0700, Michael Ejercito
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> https://nypost.com/2025/09/20/us-news/california-bans-all-masking-including-by-ice-agents/
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>> Newsom signs anti-ICE bill banning federal law enforcement from wearing
>> masks
>> By Chris Harris
>> Published Sep. 20, 2025, 7:52 p.m. ET
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>> Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of bills on
>> Saturday banning masking statewide, as part of a concentrated effort to
>> bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from concealing their
>> identities during raids.
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>> The five bills Newsom signed into law Saturday “make California the
>> first state in the nation to prohibit federal law enforcement officers,
>> including ICE, from hiding their identities,” according to a press
>> release from his office.
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>> The anti-ICE moves also make “it less likely that federal immigration
>> enforcement officers target children in classrooms and patients in
>> hospitals,” the statement continued.
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>> California Gov. Gavin Newsom looks on during a bill signing event.
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>> California Governor Gavin Newsom teased the new masking legislation with
>> an X post.
>> Getty Images
>> Under the new legislation, law and immigrant enforcement officers must
>> remain identifiable “by name or badge number,” and “masks are not to be
>> worn except when absolutely necessary.”
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>> Newsom’s office did not say how they would enforce such a rule against a
>> federal agency, though they did talk at length about how much they
>> oppose ICE’s recent actions.
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>> “ICE agents have wrongfully arrested citizens, concealed their
>> identities, and undermined transparency,” the statement adds. “They
>> dismantled rules that once kept enforcement away from schools,
>> hospitals, and churches, fueling student absences and eroding community
>> trust.
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>> Law enforcement officers arresting a demonstrator during an immigration
>> protest.
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>> Demonstrations outside federal buildings have led to scores of arrests.
>> AFP via Getty Images
>> “Our places of learning and healing must never be turned into the
>> hunting grounds this federal administration has tried to make them out
>> to be,” Newsom’s statement continues. “I have sat with mothers who are
>> afraid to send their children to school, and with farmworker families
>> who live every day with the fear of being torn apart. No family should
>> ever have to carry that weight. California is choosing true public safety.”
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>> The new law will require notification to families when immigration
>> enforcement intends on visiting a school.
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>> Emergency rooms and other nonpublic areas within hospitals are off
>> limits to immigration enforcement “without a judicial warrant or court
>> order, and it clarifies that immigration information collected by a
>> health care provider is protected as medical information.”
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>> California Governor Gavin Newsom speaking at a bill signing event
>> related to redistricting.
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>> Newsom has been a staunch critic of the Trump administration’s policies.
>> Getty Images
>> Newsom announced the new laws hours after taking to X to tease Homeland
>> Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying she was about to have “a bad day.”
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>> Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said he referred the X post the U.S.
>> Secret Service for a threat assessment.
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> ICE is coming for you, they will find you, and they will deport you.
     Wrong, for I am an American citizen!


  Michael