Democrats in the California Legislature have introduced a series of bills to combat ICE.
Assemblymember Mark González, D-Los Angeles, announced that he is co-introducing a bill that would disqualify certain U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or other law enforcement personnel who actively engage in immigration enforcement activities from being hired as a local, county or state public agency employee in California, during a press conference outside the Japanese American National Museum near downtown Los Angeles on Friday, Feb.
6, 2026. A Southern California lawmaker is behind new legislation that would disqualify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or other law enforcement personnel who engage inThe ban on employment would apply to those who are actively involved in arresting and deporting people between Jan. 20, 2025, and Jan. 20, 2029 — the duration of President‘s second term — and would disqualify them from future employment as a police officer, peace officer, public school teacher or civil servant, among other jobs. State Sen. María Elena Durazo speaks at a press conference outside the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, announcing legislation that would prevent ICE agents from being hired as public agency employees in California. Los Angeles City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado speaks at a press conference outside the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, announcing legislation that would prevent ICE agents from being hired as public agency employees in California. Assemblymember Mark González, D-Los Angeles, , along with state Sen. María Elena Durazo and Los Angeles City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado, speak at a news conference proposed legislation that would disqualify certain U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or other law enforcement personnel who actively engage in immigration enforcement activities from being hired as a local, county or state public agency employee in California. The press conference took place outside the Japanese American National Museum near downtown Los Angeles on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. State Sen. María Elena Durazo speaks at a press conference outside the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, announcing legislation that would prevent ICE agents from being hired as public agency employees in California. “I am introducing a bill today that draws a moral line here in California. We’re calling it like we see it, like we feel it, and respectfully, the GTFO ICE Bill — in other words, Get the Feds Out,” said AssemblymemberThe official text of the proposed bill was not yet available on Friday, Feb. 6, but González, who is co-introducing the legislation with Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, said people who engage in permissible law enforcement activities as outlined under California’s, known as SB 54, would be exempt from his proposed employment ban. The intent of the bill, he said, is to bar future public employment for agents who are on the ground and actively rounding up and arresting people as part of Trump’s mass deportation program. “The message is very simple: If you choose to terrorize communities instead of serving them, California will not reward you with a public paycheck,” the Assembly member said during a press conference. González said details of the bill are still being worked out and hasn’t decided whether the restriction on future public employment in California should be a lifetime ban. The press conference was held outside the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo. The location of the event was no accident. It was here in 1942 that Japanese Americans were ordered to report and be transported to internment camps during World War II.State Sen. María Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, who is considering signing on as a co-author of the proposed legislation, said since Trump returned to office, “immigration enforcement has transformed into something unrecognizable — militarized authoritarian force that operates without warrants, without accountability, without any sense of humanity.”Bill would ban ICE arrests at California state courthouseswould disqualify someone from becoming a peace officer or working in school settings — as a teacher, principal, superintendent or other administrative positions, for example — if they worked for ICE between Sept. 1, 2025, and Jan. 20, 2029, or for corrections departments in Alabama or Georgia between Jan. 1, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2026. The Senate recently advanced legislation that would make it easier for people to sue federal immigration officials if their civil rights are violated., criticized the effort at the time of the vote as “a little bit more about politics and a little less about policy.”San Fernando Valley students protest ICE, march to Van Nuys City HallFear in Minnesota’s Somali community deepens, hampering progress on measles vaccinationNew Epstein files spark Wasserman fallout and renew scrutiny of UCLA professorBass faces backlash over allegations she led ‘watering down’ of fire reportAfter housing nearly 300 people, Los Angeles officials to expand San Fernando Valley’s RV-to-Home project citywideMalibu’s HRL Labs cuts 376 jobs after losing government work
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