LOS ANGELES, CA (Friday, February 6, 2026) — Assemblymember Mark González announced legislation that will be jointly introduced with Speaker Robert Rivas, aiming to prevent anyone who has been previously engaged in baseless, cruel immigration enforcement activity from attaining a public service job in California. He was joined at the Japanese American National Museum by Senator Maria Elena Durazo, Councilmember Ysabel Jurado, and Ann Burroughs, President & CEO of the Japanese American National Museum.
This bill ensures the sanctity of our police officers, teachers, civil servants, social workers, judges, and school safety officers — those we trust to keep our loved ones safe and protected.
“Immigration enforcement agents, when they invade our communities, when they kidnap neighbors, when they choose VIOLENCE over PEACE, and when they shove the cold barrel of a gun into the back of a head and execute innocent people in the streets…,” said Assemblymember Mark González. “That is not serving the public. I am proud to stand with the Speaker, announcing legislation that says enough of this shit. We are not going to abandon my community; not ever.”
“My colleague and friend Assemblymember Mark González is on the front lines protecting California and Los Angeles from Trump and ICE’s chaos and abuse of power,” said Speaker Robert Rivas, “I’m proud to partner with him on legislation that puts ICE on notice: No one is above the law.”
“The Trump Administration isn’t following the rules or respecting due process. Instead, masked agents are entering homes without warrants, terrorizing families, and creating a climate of pure fear,” said Senator Maria Elena Durazo, “They’re killing innocent people like Alex Pretti. We have a duty as a State to establish new safeguards to protect our communities and keep them safe.”
“You do not get to build your career on the suffering of our families. Anyone complicit in kidnapping our neighbors and terrorizing entire communities has no business calling themselves a public servant,” said Councilmember Ysabel Jurado, “This bill will hold those who think they can get away with it accountable.”
“Just five months ago, this very plaza—hallowed ground—was invaded by dozens of armed and masked federal agents. A man was seized and incarcerated right here, on a site meant to warn against exactly this kind of state violence, “ said Ann Burroughs, President & CEO of Japanese American National Museum, “At JANM’s Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, we convene people of all backgrounds to engage questions of democracy, justice, and accountability. Today, the question of what state and local governments can do to stop ICE’s attacks on immigrant communities and to hold them to account could not be more urgent.”
Since the start of President Trump’s second term, immigration enforcement agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been ordered to carry out aggressive, unchecked, and deadly military-style raids.