“ICE, unmask – what are you afraid of?” California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked before signing the “No Secret Police Act,” a reckless state law ordering federal immigration agents to remove face coverings during operations. But it’s Newsom who should be afraid, considering the shaky legal ground he’s on.

SB627 bans federal and local law enforcement officers from wearing “ski masks and similar extreme masking” and imposes civil and criminal penalties on officers who violate the new law. Its real effect is to expose them to doxxing, harassment and potentially violent reprisals on the job and at their homes.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has already said it will not comply, and rightly so. California cannot regulate the federal government’s actions in enforcing federal immigration law

See Full Page