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.

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.

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. 3

Under the new legislation, law and immigrant enforcement officers must remain identifiable “ by name or badge number ,” and “masks are not to be w

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