{"id":572116,"date":"2026-02-07T04:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/572116\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:42:14","slug":"this-bill-would-ban-ice-agents-from-future-hiring-as-a-public-employee-in-california-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/572116\/","title":{"rendered":"This bill would ban ICE agents from future hiring as a public employee in California \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/tag\/immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">immigration enforcement activities<\/a> from being hired as a local, county or state public agency employee in California.<\/p>\n<p>The ban on employment would apply to those who are actively involved in arresting and deporting people between Jan. 20, 2025, and Jan. 20, 2029 \u2014 the duration of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s second term \u2014 and would disqualify them from future employment as a police officer, peace officer, public school teacher or civil servant, among other jobs.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mng-gallery-initialized mng-gallery-slider\">\n<li data-index=\"1\" class=\"mng-ge mng-gallery-active\" id=\"mng-ge-0\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"State Sen. Mar\u00c3\u00ada Elena Durazo speaks at a press conference...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LDN-L-ICE-BILL-0207-2.jpg\"\/>\n<p>State Sen. Mar\u00eda 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. (Photo by Jacob Lewis, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"2\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los Angeles City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado speaks at a press...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LDN-L-ICE-BILL-0207-3.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LDN-L-ICE-BILL-0207-3.jpg\"\/>\n<p>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. (Photo by Jacob Lewis, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"3\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Assemblymember Mark Gonz\u00c3\u00a1lez, D-Los Angeles, (center), along with state Sen....\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LDN-L-ICE-BILL-0207-4.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LDN-L-ICE-BILL-0207-4.jpg\"\/>\n<p>Assemblymember Mark Gonz\u00e1lez, D-Los Angeles, (center), along with state Sen. Mar\u00eda 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. (Photo by Jacob Lewis, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Mar\u00eda 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. (Photo by Jacob Lewis, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am introducing a bill today that draws a moral line here in California. We\u2019re calling it like we see it, like we feel it, and respectfully, the GTFO ICE Bill \u2014 in other words, Get the Feds Out,\u201d said Assemblymember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/2024\/10\/14\/mark-gonzalez-assembly-district-54-candidate-2024-election-questionnaire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mark Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a>, D-Los Angeles, apparently playing off another acronym that normally involves an expletive.<\/p>\n<p>The official text of the proposed bill was not yet available on Friday, Feb. 6, but Gonz\u00e1lez, 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\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2018\/05\/04\/californias-sanctuary-law-sb-54-heres-what-it-is-and-isnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sanctuary state law<\/a>, known as Senate Bill 54, would be exempt from his proposed employment ban. (An example of an exemption would be if a law enforcement agent arrested a violent, convicted offender.)<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s mass deportation program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message is very simple: If you choose to terrorize communities instead of serving them, California will not reward you with a public paycheck,\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez said during a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez said details of the bill are still being worked out and hasn\u2019t decided whether the restriction on future public employment in California should be a lifetime ban.<\/p>\n<p>The news conference was held outside the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles\u2019 Little Tokyo. The location was no accident.<\/p>\n<p>It was there in 1942 that Japanese Americans were ordered to report and be transported to internment camps during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>It was also there that federal agents carried out an immigration enforcement operation last August as Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/tag\/gavin-newsom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gavin Newsom<\/a> led a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2025\/08\/14\/gov-gavin-newsom-kicks-off-californias-redistricting-efforts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">kickoff rally in support of Proposition 50<\/a>, the congressional redistricting measure which voters ultimately passed.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Mar\u00eda Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, who is considering signing on as a co-author of the proposed legislation, said since Trump returned to office, \u201cimmigration enforcement has transformed into something unrecognizable \u2014 militarized authoritarian force that operates without warrants, without accountability, without any sense of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similar legislation was introduced last month by Assemblymember Anamarie \u00c1vila Far\u00edas, a Democrat from the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1627\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Her bill<\/a> would disqualify someone from becoming a peace officer or working in school settings \u2014 as a teacher, principal, superintendent or other administrative positions, for example \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the Legislature are pushing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/01\/29\/california-lawmakers-are-pushing-various-immigration-related-bills-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a number of immigration-related bills<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate recently advanced legislation that would make it easier for people to sue federal immigration officials if their civil rights are violated.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tony Strickland \u2014 who, along with the rest of his GOP colleagues, voted against <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">S.B. 747<\/a>, the No Kings Act passed last month to make it easier to sue federal officials \u2014 criticized the effort at the time of the vote as \u201ca little bit more about politics and a little less about policy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Southern California lawmaker is behind new legislation that would disqualify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":572117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,1853,18825,409,2961,2936,2934,224,5337,50,80,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-572116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-legislature","11":"tag-california-politics","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-law-enforcement","15":"tag-legislation","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116027519528523857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}