California lawmakers pass restrictions on hiring former immigration agents, ban on electric-shock gloves

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Set us as preferred SACRAMENTO — In a show of defiance to the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants, California lawmakers on Monday voted to ban federal immigration agents from being hired for many local and state government jobs and to outlaw electric-shock gloves similar to those that may be distributed to federal officers.The two bills were among a slate of legislation approved by the Democratic-led state Legislature to thwart certain tactics and tools used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, such as arresting undocumented immigrants who appear at courthouses for scheduled immigration hearings.“We have the fourth largest economy in the world because of our immigrant and undocumented community, and they’re being penalized and targeted by the Trump administration,” said Assembly member Mark Gonzalez (D-Los Angeles).“This package of immigrant bills that we’ve sent (to the governor) is trying to say that we are here to defend you.”Gonzalez authored a bill to prohibit agents and contractors involved in immigration enforcement from being employed in the future by the state, cities, counties, school districts and other public entities.

It was supported by Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) and called the “Get the Feds Out” Act or “GTFO.”It would allow an exception for officers who are accepted to a police agency and take the state’s basic police training course but notes that “suitability shall be determined on a case-by-case basis.”State Sen.Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach), chair of the Latino Legislative Caucus, said the state “expects its public employees to be moral” and to defend the state and U.S.

constitutions.“Anyone who is participating in the raids have shown that they do not live up to the bar that Californians deserve from their public servants.This bill...