California has become the first state to prohibit most of the law enforcement employees, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while they were carrying out formal work under a draft law signed on Saturday by the governor of the state, Gavin News, and Trump administration officials are continuing quickly.
The ban is a direct response to the last immigration raids in Los Angeles, where Federal agents wore masks while they were arresting. The raids prompted the days of protest and led President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marine Corps in the area.
Newsom told a press conference in Los Angeles, where the draft law surrounded by legislators in the state, education leaders and members of the migrant community signed that California is unique in the fact that 27 % of its population is born in foreign.
“We celebrate this diversity. This is what makes California great. It makes America great. It is under the attack,” he said.
The democratic ruler said that the state is pushing against the exercise of convincing factors without identifying or badge numbers that hold people in the streets.
“The impact of these policies throughout this city, our state and our nation are terrifying,” said New Roire. “It is like the science fiction movie Dystopian. Cars are unique, people in masks, and people are completely disappear literally. There is no work, no rights, no right to democracy where we have rights. Migrants have rights, and we have the right to stand and respond, and this is what we are doing here today.”
But it is not clear how – or whether – the state can impose a ban on federal agents.
Trump administration officials have defended the use of masks, saying that immigration agents are facing increasing and increasing harassment in public places and online while they were enforcing them in the service of Trump’s motive towards collective deportation. Officials claim that blocking their identities is necessary for the safety of agents and their families.
Bill Essia, the acting American lawyer for South California, said on the social platform X that the state does not have a judicial authority on the federal government and told the agencies that the ban on the mask had no effect on their operations. He said: “Our agents will continue to protect their identities.”
Essayli also criticized the NEWSOM’s comment on X, saying that the Minister of Internal Security Christie sleep was “a bad day today”, adding that there is absolute tolerance with “direct or implicit threats against government officials.” He referred to the matter to the secret service, which also said in a statement, that X, that the specific case cannot be suspended, but it should be achieved in any possible threat.
DHS official criticizes the California Law
Tricia McLeulin, Minister of Internal Security for Public Affairs, described it as “miserable and blatant attempt to endanger our officers.”
“While our federal law enforcement officers are being assaulted by rioters and have rocks and Molotov cocktails that were thrown to them, a politician is a haven that prohibits officers who wear masks to protect themselves from exposure to dexen and targeting by well -known sympathizers and suspects in terrorism,” she said via e -mail.
She said that federal immigration men and women put their lives at stake to arrest illegal violent foreigners, and the speech, such as newsom, contributed to increasing the attacks.
Newsom replied that concerns about overcoming customers, or publishing their personal online information, are unfounded and not proven.
He said: “There is a confirmation that there is a significant increase in attacks on the officers, but they will not provide data.” “All they have provided is misleading and wrong guidance.”
The ban applies to different face covers, and includes some exceptions
The new Gaiters law prohibits the neck, ski masks and other facial covers for local and unionist officials, including immigration enforcement agents, while conducting official work. It excludes passengers and medical masks such as N95 respirators or tactical equipment, and does not apply to the state police.
Democrats in Congress and legislators in several states, including Tennessee, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, have made similar proposals to ban the mask.
Supporters of California Law said that it is especially required after the Supreme Court ruled this month that the Trump administration can resume overwhelming migration in Los Angeles. The law aims to enhance general confidence in the application of the law and prevent people from impersonating the officers to commit crimes.
The constitutional law expert, Erwin Kemerski of the University of California, Berkeley, also defended the legislation. Federal employees wrote to follow the general rules of the mandate “unless this interferes significantly with the performance of their duties. For example, while in the job, federal employees must stop at the red lights,” he wrote in an opinion article on Sacraminto Bee.
A new law that covers schools and healthcare facilities
Newsom also signed legislation on Saturday to prevent immigration agents from entering schools and health care facilities without a good order or judicial order, and schools are asked to notify parents and teachers when agents are on campus.
“Students cannot learn if they live in fear of deportation. The law of safe schools in California is a clear message to Donald Trump:” extracting ice from our schools. “
Earlier this year, the Legislative Authority allowed the granting of $ 50 million to the Ministry of Justice in California and other legal groups, which led to more than 40 lawsuits against the Trump administration.