LOS ANGELES - A newly introduced bill in the California Legislature aims to block former federal immigration agents from transitioning into local public service roles.

The bill would permanently disqualify anyone who worked for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) between Sept. 1, 2025, and Jan. 20, 2029, from holding jobs in California law enforcement or public education.

  • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Law enforcement and public education seems like a very weird combination.

    They should be barred from all government-paid roles, including contractors and subcontractors.

  • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    Good. Give these thugs real consequences for their actions. Want to work for ICE, attack and murder your neighbors, and terrorize your community? Good luck getting the job you might have wanted for the rest of your life.

    Personally, I think this should be taken further. Ban them from every single job the state of California hires for in any department. Revoke some tax benefits for businesses that hire former ICE agents. Do everything legally possible to make becoming an ICE officer into an economic death blow that will make it impossibly hard to find employment after.

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    Not to be that guy, but I can’t see this ever holding up or getting approved in the first place. As of now there is no way to discriminate based on previous occupation. The only legal grounds for job discrimination currently in California is based on being a sexual predator or violent felon. Even regular felons are allowed to be teachers. Not sure it’s a good idea to go down the path of allowing job discrimination based on what your previous job was, particularly when it’s a completely legal occupation.

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      Not to be that guy, but I can’t see this ever holding up or getting approved in the first place.

      Agreed, but the GOP’s ICE Gestapo doesn’t give a fuck about the legality of their actions. It’s time to put some serious roadblocks in their way and force them to fight it out in the courts with the Due Process they routinely deny everyone else. At the very least it should send a chill up their spines.

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    2 months ago

    The world needs ditch diggers and people to work the mines. We will dismantle ice and have them all work the mines since they voted for it.

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    2 months ago

    I want a ban that says those fascist fucks can’t set foot EVER in a blue state. They’ve attained outlaw status-- meaning they step foot here, it’s legal to punch them like Nazis. Because, well, they are Nazis.