ICE is Living Rent Free in California Democrats’ Heads

California Democrats passed Sen. Scott Wiener’s “No Kings Act” this week, ostensibly to hold Border Patrol agents legally accountable to “lawless behavior.” Sen. Wiener wants the raving hysterics protesting ICE and Border Patrol to be able to sue federal agents in addition to spitting on them, running them down with cars, blowing whistles in their faces, attacking them with snow shovels and broom handles, and doxxing agents and their families.

Another crazy Democrat ICE bill was introduced this week by Assemblywoman Jessica Caloza (D-Los Angeles): AB 1650 would prohibit a rental company from renting a vehicle to anyone employed by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is truly from the “you can’t make this s*%! up” file.

Thus far it is a very short bill. The text says: “Existing law generally regulates the business of renting passenger vehicles to the public. The law prohibits a rental company from taking various actions, including requiring the purchase of a damage waiver, optional insurance, or another optional good or service, and using electronic surveillance technology to track a renter in order to impose fines or surcharges relating to the renter’s use of a rental vehicle.”

And another crazy bill introduced this week, AB 1627 by Assemblywoman Anamarie Ávila Farías (D-Contra Costa) would prevent ICE agents from getting jobs in law enforcement. The bill text says: “This bill would disqualify a person from being a peace officer if they were employed by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement between September 1, 2025, and January 20, 2029, or the Alabama Department of Corrections or the Georgia Department of Corrections between January 1, 2020, and January 1, 2026.”

If that proposed legislation isn’t taking up enough space in California Democrats’ heads, Assemblyman Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) introduced AB 1633 to impose a 50% annual corporate tax on each privately owned immigration detention center in the state – a 50% tax on corporate profits generated through detention operations.

Think about that. It is not illegal to privately own detention centers, any more than it is illegal to privately own prisons.

Something tells me that it is unconstitutional to specifically target an industry for excessive taxation because lawmakers don’t like it – along the lines of a punitive “penalty” disguised as tax. If a measure is labeled a tax but functions primarily as a penalty to regulate conduct – like taxing private owners of ICE detention centers – it may exceed taxing power or other limits.

But let’s not put the cart in front of the horse, and instead hear directly from the horse’s mouth:

“For years, ICE has fueled a system that profits from human suffering and family separation, outsourcing detention to private corporations who rake in profits while people endure dangerous, inhumane conditions,” said Assemblymember Haney. “What we’re seeing in Minnesota and across the country shows the real world consequences of ICE’s unchecked power, putting communities and lives at risk for profit with zero accountability. Corporations running these facilities are being paid hundreds of millions to detain people in cruelty right here in California, and it has to end.”

Where is the video of Haney sobbing in front of the cameras?

I can think of several issues in Assemblyman Haney’s San Francisco district that need some serious attention, far more than ICE detention centers.

And in Assemblywoman Jessica Caloza’s Los Angeles district, and in Assemblywoman Anamarie Ávila Farías’s Contra Costa district, and in Sen. Scott Wiener’s San Francisco district.

These California lawmakers were elected by the residents of their districts to address and hopefully solve the problems they encounter within their districts. They were elected to represent the people of their districts – not grandstand as though they were members of Congress, or gaslight them.

These are unserious politicians who don’t understand the scope of their job.

A quick scan of the Worst of the Worst arrested criminal illegal aliens on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement website would make most Californians happy to know they were arrested, and being detained before deportation in a secure facility.

What would Assemblyman Haney have ICE do with these Worst of the Worst criminal aliens arrested by ICE? Drop them off at the San Francisco jail until zero bail was granted and they were released again?

Here are a few arrested in California: