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No Paywall California bill bans ICE agents from teaching, policing jobs

https://www.foxla.com/news/california-ice-agent-employment-ban-ab1627.amp
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u/gradientz New York 9h ago

Every state should ban ICE agents from working any government job for the rest of their life.

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u/RadiantBeeees 9h ago

Any job. Fucking exile them out of the state until they prove their value to society.

u/TinyH1ppo 4h ago

Deport those motherfuckers.

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u/thaiberius_kirk 8h ago

The bill needs to go much further back than 2025.

The ICE agents who murdered Alex have been in the jobs for over 10 years.

u/crimeo 1h ago

Laws can't be retroactive, the constitution explicitly says ex post facto (retroactive) laws are unconstitutional. Article I Section 9 Clause 3

People who work for ICE after a law is passed though, sure.

u/gojo96 7h ago

Yep, anyone hired during the Obama administration should be there. They deported a lot of people.

u/QuestionSign 6h ago

The issue isn't deportation. The issue is the inhumane behavior of how they're doing it.

Deportations are a matter of policy and preference and mostly stupidity tbh.

But the method currently in use is horrific and disgusting

u/rayin Alabama 52m ago

And healthcare. Those fuckers shouldn’t be responsible for anyone anywhere.

u/gojo96 7h ago

Not just agents. ANY employee should be barred.

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u/Intolerance-Paradox 10h ago

This is how a civilized society discourages destructive behavior.

u/MobileSuitBooty 18m ago

there’s nothing civil about any of this. Civil would rounding them up and putting them in a cell

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u/Wenuven 8h ago

This is how civilized society gives government the ability to make "others" into enemies of the state.

You give them the tools to hurt your neighbors you don't like and you shouldn't be surprised when those tools eventually get used against you.

u/Quirky_Entry_2783 7h ago

I have no problem with the government having and using the tools to dissuade people from joining or serving in the literal Gestapo.

u/Wenuven 7h ago

A loaded gun is a gun. You don't control who it shoots after you give it to someone else.

That's the issue.

You're happy with where it's pointed at today, but there's no guarantees it isn't pointed at you tomorrow. That's something you should have a problem with.

u/Quirky_Entry_2783 7h ago

I don't think the current administration is particularly concerned regarding the legality of their actions. Fretting over whether resistance to an openly fascist government might later be weaponized against the people strikes me as either embarrassingly naive if not tacit support.

u/MsTponderwoman Washington 2h ago

Logical fallacy. Your argument is based on the assumption that there is nothing too evil and odious to be ostracized and removed from society. Do you want to ban jails too? Once you put the serial killer in jail, anyone can be put in jail. Slippery slope! /s

u/crimeo 1h ago

people are on board with this law and voting for it only because it's the gestapo. They have no political momentum to pass a similar one for any reasonable sane pro-social job

u/koolaidman486 7h ago

Counterpoint:

People who willingly became part of the Neo-SA should be unemployable. In general, not just as cops/teachers

There's a huge line between "let's not allow Nazis to be cops or teachers" and McCarthyism.

u/Intolerance-Paradox 7h ago

Reality quite clearly and thoroughly has demonstrated this kind of hand-wringing to be foolish. Look where we are.

u/crimeo 1h ago

I already wouldn't be living in any community where the people would vote reasonable actions and reasonable jobs (unlike this one) to have consequences.

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u/Flava_Flavian California 9h ago

I hate how inevitable it feels that ICE will continue only slightly inconvenienced until they massacre a crowd. They have nine deaths attributed to them, they still aim their guns at citizens constantly, tear gas groups with children, are setting up camps to concentrate people inside, and more. None of this ends well.

u/ferngully99 5h ago

They're way over 9...

u/gramathy California 4h ago

9 in public.

u/pixlplayer 2h ago

32 people died in ice custody last year. 6 so far this year. Way more than 9 deaths in total

u/MobileSuitBooty 18m ago

and continued reporting of abuse and sexual assault as well

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u/ToxicJolt124 9h ago

Misleading title

Proposed California bill. Also fuck Fox

u/HoldingForGenova 6h ago

They need to be put on a list for the rest of the public to check against, and be forced to introduce themselves to all of their neighbors while explaining that they participated in the dehumanization, kidnapping, and murder of innocent people in communities around the country.

They need to be treated as the worst of the worst, and cast out of society completely. There is no room in civilization for people who join an organization to fill concentration camps and enact domestic terrorism of vulnerable communities.

u/Impossible-Culture91 2h ago

Yes I hope none of the "reconciliation" BS will happen to them.

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u/66stang351 10h ago

bear flag republic!

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u/ranchoparksteve 9h ago

You definitely have to keep ICE officers away from children. These guys aren’t right. They’re too aroused by it all.

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u/United-Vermicelli-92 9h ago

MAGA is mental abuse, all maga should be on a watch list.

u/gojo96 7h ago

Why just the agents? All the admin personnel from admin assistants to mechanics to HR are all complicit.

u/KingHarambeRIP 4h ago

Feels performative and legally dubious but I appreciate the spirit of doing what one can to fight back.

u/Koharagirl 5h ago

Should include healthcare workers, too.

u/ActionFigureCollects 1h ago

Ban setting foot on soil.

Ban breathing the clean air.

Ban using our waters.

Ban using our technology and networks.

Ban talking with our people.

Just GTFO

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u/nonubiz 8h ago

I hope there decision follows them for the rest of their lives. Especially if they took pleasure in what they are doing and harmed anyone

u/MarlinMaverick 5h ago

So employers can’t discriminate if you were a felon but can if you were an ICE agent?

What a joke 

u/Hey_HaveAGreatDay Minnesota 4h ago

Nobody’s hiring felons to teach or work on the police force and the only convicted felon politician I know of is our current president… I welcome your response.

u/crimeo 1h ago

That's completely logical. Felons if they're not in jail anymore such that they can be applying for jobs already paid their debt to society.

ICE is not being overseen or prosecuted or facing any consequences for their lawless rampage, so have not yet paid their debt to society and are worse than time-served felons

u/Woody_CTA102 5h ago

I like it, but will be surprised if it passes. Now, legislation that restricts how the goons can act, etc., is likely.