.@GavinNewsom, cease the reckless threats and demonization of our legislation enforcement. America deserves higher than this.
No quantity of political fundraising or posturing to extremists and activists will make America higher for our youngsters. That’s who we’re preventing for: the following… pic.twitter.com/YLWleB7q9U
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) September 23, 2025
Democratic-run states and cities have waged battle on ICE brokers over migration insurance policies. The Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) reported a 413% enhance in violent bodily assaults on ICE officers again in June, however that quantity has greater than doubled to 1,000% as a result of ongoing political rhetoric that these brokers are kidnapping harmless individuals. California’s Governor Gavin Newsom applied the primary laws within the nation prohibiting ICE brokers from carrying facial masks.
“What are you afraid of?” Newsom mocked ICE officers as supporters cheered. These women and men have been doxxed on-line. Residence addresses, names of members of the family, and in some cases, the place their kids attend faculty, are circulating on the web. Sure Republic-led states like Tennessee and Florida have launched laws to ban doxxing practices. Florida routinely conducts check-ins and patrols to make sure the security of ICE brokers and their households.
Mobs of offended protestors generally encompass ICE raids, and violence ensues. Footage of brokers flow into on-line boards the place deranged people search out their private data to stalk and harass federal brokers. Democrats have inspired the aggression. “Each single ICE agent who’s engaged on this aggressive overreach and are attempting to cover their identities from the American individuals will probably be unsuccessful in doing that,” Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) mentioned.
The “No Secret Police Act” applied by Newsom is meant to behave as a counter to “lawless immigration raids.” Newsom claims there are anti-doxxing legal guidelines in place in California. “In the event you’re going to go down that path, do judges then begin getting masked? Do elected officers begin masking themselves? Does anybody that’s on the receiving finish of contemporary day bullying because it pertains to on-line exercise?” Elected officers similar to Newsom are surrounded by safety always. ICE brokers are supplied no such protections and should bodily defend themselves for assaults that appear inevitable in these blue-run areas that favor prison habits.
Newsom forgets that federal legislation will all the time supersede state legislation. The Supremacy Clause (Article VI) states that the US Structure is the “supreme legislation of the land” that takes priority over any and all state legal guidelines or constitutions.
His statements are purely political posturing and theater. No police officer would dare to arrest a federal legislation enforcement agent and threat public humiliation or potential prison prices.
