California bill bans face masks for law enforcement – Newsom signature uncertain

The most leftist, deranged state in America just passed a bill designed to endanger the lives of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Passed by California lawmakers on Thursday, the bill, now headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, will ban ICE agents from wearing masks while conducting immigration raids.

The bill will specifically “prohibit ski masks, balaclavas and other face coverings for local and federal law enforcement, as well as officials from other states operating in California,” according to Politico.

This bill was passed despite leftists — the same types of people who celebrated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination and murder — being intent on doxxing ICE agents.

Radical leftist just doxxed an ICE agent and his wife, telling followers to “catch him alone” and give him the “call one treatment.” @FBI @ICEgov https://t.co/X3rT4CyG8s pic.twitter.com/5eOwE4KPcw

— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) August 20, 2025

The only potential good news is that Newsom’s support for the bill “is not certain,” according to The New York Times.

“We’re looking at the constitutionality of it,” the governor reportedly said about the bill in July. “It appears we don’t have the legal authority for federal agents, but we do for other law enforcement authorities. There’s some amendments being made in the bill and our legal team’s looking at it.”

The bill is the brainchild of state Sen. Scott Wiener, a radical leftist who, as previously reported, believes in isolating gay/trans children away from their parents.

“We are in a truly disaster of a situation where we have secret police, effectively, on our streets,” he told the Times. “It’s tearing apart the fabric of society.”

“You have communities in Southern California where people are scared to go out on the street, they’re scared to go to work, they’re scared to bring their kids to school. And now is the time for us to say what the rules are,” he added.

The rules are that illegally entering the United States is a violation of law punishable by apprehension and deportation. But evidently, Wiener doesn’t give a damn about the actual rules.

Scott Wiener is a pedophile groomer piece of shit and should be treated accordingly. https://t.co/vqdV4lpktv

— Stirrin the Pot (@Stirrinthatpot) September 13, 2025

“We have to stand up and say no to the secret police raining fear and intimidation on communities across California,” Wiener told CBS News. “Law enforcement should never be easily confused with the guy in the ski mask robbing a liquor store, yet that’s what’s happening with ICE’s extreme masking.”‘

“In the face of rising fascism, California must hold those who are threatening our communities accountable and restore confidence in our local law enforcement who are proud to show their faces,” he added.

Fellow radical leftist California Assemblymember Juan Carrillo said something similar.

“It is our duty in California to defend our rule of law,” he said. “If we want to support public safety, if we want the public to trust law enforcement, we cannot allow them to behave like secret police in an authoritarian state.”

According to the Times, Wiener’s bill is opposed by “numerous law enforcement agencies,” not to mention Republicans — the people whom Democrats hilariously claim are against law and order.

“Bad guys wear masks because they don’t want to get caught,” Republican state Sen. Kelly Seyarto said. “Good guys wear masks because they don’t want to get killed. It’s that simple.”

But it gets worse.

California lawmakers have reportedly also passed a companion bill that’d force local, state, and federal agents to plainly identify their name and badge number with a badge of some sort.

Appearing on “Face the Nation” in July, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said he’s not necessarily a “proponent” of masks himself but at least understands why his agents want them.

“If that’s a tool that the men and women of ICE to keep themselves and their family safe, then I will allow it,” he said.

Alan Wayne Barcelona, the president of the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, previously wrote a letter to Weiner expressing his opposition to the bill.

“It disregards everyday scenarios where anonymity is not just helpful but essential: undercover assignments, organized crime surveillance, narcotics investigations, and even some patrol or crowd control work,” he wrote.

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