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On 2025-06-23 21:48:38 +0000, moviePig said:

> On 6/23/2025 4:33 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> Even if passed, this could only be enforced on state and local police, and
>> those aren't the ones the 'progressives' in Sacramento are so upset about.
>> It's the ICE agents doing immigration operations that have their panties in a
>> twist and their law will have no force or effect on them. Federal agents
>> enforcing federal law places them well within the Supremacy Clause of the
>> Constitution, meaning state officials have no jurisdiction over them.
>> 
>> 
>> https://abc7.com/post/no-secret-police-act-bill-introduced-california-lawmakers-would-prohibit-law-enforcement-covering-faces/16767520/ 
>> 
>> 
>> Hawaii tried something similar about five years ago when its legislature
>> passed a state law prohibiting law enforcement from carrying firearms while
>> off-duty. The law specifically included federal agents-- FBI, Secret Service,
>> DEA, etc.) in its prohibition. It took all of 10 seconds for a federal court
>> to invalidate the law with regard to federal personnel and tell Hawaii to stay
>> in its lane; if they want to prohibit their own cops from being able to defend
>> themselves or others while off-duty, they can do it, but they have no
>> authority over federal agents.
>> 
>> The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE agents
>> to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but there is
>> actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their ability to work
>> undercover in future cases.
>> 
>> And, of course, there's the real reason everyone from blue politicians to open
>> borders activists want them to stop wearing masks: so they can take pictures
>> of them, run them through a Google reverse image search, and identify them, so
>> that masked (behold the irony, right?) Antifa types can show up at their homes
>> and terrorize them and their children.
> 
> Yes, there are obviously "legitimate reasons" for them to cover their 
> faces ...just as obviously as doing so smacks of 'secret police".