California Democrats Lead Nation in Holding Trump’s ICE Accountable, Deliver New Bills to Defend Immigrants and Communities of Color

This year, Speaker Robert Rivas and Assembly Democrats delivered bills that fight back against Trump's indiscriminate, failed immigration enforcement policies. The solutions will make California safer and build on a commitment to protecting immigrant workers and families at our schools, businesses, hospitals and day cares.

SACRAMENTO - During this year's final days of legislative session, Speaker Robert Rivas and Assembly Democrats voted to pass and deliver significant bills that fight back against Trump's failing immigration agenda and hold ICE agents accountable for violence and indiscriminate harassment targeting California's immigrants and communities of color.

With this package of bills, the Assembly is again stepping-up to push back against ICE:

• Keep families safe at schools, hospitals, child care centers and courthouses.
• Regulate ICE detention centers and hold federal agents accountable for abuse and misconduct.
• Prevent California resources from being used to carry out harmful immigration enforcement.
• Protect access to health care, legal aid and critical services.

These bills strengthen public safety. They protect against indiscriminate raids, inhumane detention centers, heartless cuts to essential services and fear campaigns targeting communities of color, while making sure that immigrant families are safer.

Assembly Democrats are sending a clear message: Trump's failures will not stand, and California will do everything in its power to defend immigrant families.

Assembly Takes Action, Holds ICE Accountable

This year, the California State Assembly voted to pass dozens of bills that protect California's immigrants and push back against ICE:

• AB 1049 (C. Rodriguez) - Makes California Food Assistance Program eligibility more accessible by limiting and ultimately eliminating federal sponsor-deeming rules for the state-funded food assistance program.
• AB 1537 (Bryan) - Stops California peace officers from moonlighting as ICE agents by prohibiting secondary employment involving federal immigration enforcement.
• AB 1627 (Ávila Farías) - Prevents immigration enforcement officers with serious misconduct histories that would disqualify other law enforcement officers from becoming California peace officers.
• AB 1633 (Haney) - Imposes a 50 percent tax on private immigration detention centers and directs the revenue to immigration-related services.
• AB 1650 (Caloza) - Requires rented vehicles used in law enforcement operations to clearly identify the agency using them, bringing transparency to unmarked ICE-style enforcement tactics.
• AB 1655 (Bryan) - Protects families from losing CalWORKs aid when a child or household member is unlawfully detained by ICE.
• AB 1801 (Lee) - Requires cities, counties and other public agencies to provide public notice and follow specified procedures before approving the construction or reuse of buildings for private detention facilities.
• AB 1806 (Gabriel) - Requires an independent state investigation into fatal federal immigration officer-involved shootings.
• AB 1807 (Gabriel) - Keeps ICE operations off state-owned property by prohibiting state facilities from being used for immigration enforcement staging, processing, detention or operations.
• AB 1896 (M. González) - Disqualifies certain individuals who personally engaged in federal immigration enforcement from becoming California peace officers or holding other public employment.
• AB 1994 (Alvarez) - Requires law enforcement and prosecutors to provide an Immigrant Victims Rights and Resources card, including information on U visas, T visas and VAWA relief.
• AB 2230 (Ávila Farías) - Protects children and families by prohibiting child care facilities from voluntarily allowing law enforcement into nonpublic areas without a judicial warrant, subpoena or court order, except in limited circumstances.
• AB 2318 (Elhawary) - Prohibits law enforcement from denying or delaying emergency medical care for people under their control when treatment can be safely provided.
• AB 2379 (Solache) - Requires family daycare providers to receive clear, multilingual training on their rights during ICE or other law enforcement encounters.
• AB 2393 (Addis) - Cracks down on ICE impersonators and false arrests by allowing victims to seek damages when false imprisonment involves masks, restraints, weapons or forced transport.
• AB 2460 (C. Rodriguez) - Requires schools to update behavioral health referral protocols to better support students and families affected by immigration enforcement or deportation.
• AB 2465 (Ortega) - Cuts off state grants, loans and tax credits for businesses that profit from private detention facilities or federal immigration enforcement contracts.
• AB 2495 (Kalra) - Expands the scope of prohibited unfair immigration-related practices that unscrupulous employers use to intimidate and dissuade workers from asserting their workplace rights.
• AB 2624 (Bonta) - Extends California's existing Safe at Home address confidentiality program to immigration support service providers, employees and volunteers who face documented threats, harassment or violence.
• AB 2721 (Carrillo) - Requires hotels to notify workers when ICE or Border Patrol has a reservation on site.

Leading the Country Against Indiscriminate ICE Violence and Harassment

Since Trump's first days in office, he has indiscriminately targeted hard-working immigrant communities across California - inciting fear, violence and uncertainty.

The number of people detained by ICE expanded by 75% during the first year of Trump's second term.

Trump is not targeting criminals. He is randomly detaining and arresting business owners, parents, workers and community leaders.

The Assembly's priorities have been clear since day one: protect our immigrants, who are the backbone of California's economy, culture and community. From cracking down on secret policing tactics to defending birthright citizenship, Assembly Democrats have led this fight.

After the chaos and violent killings in Minnesota earlier this year, Democratic lawmakers acted quickly to hold ICE accountable. When ICE announced illegal proposals for new detention centers in California, the Trump administration put millions of people at risk - and the Assembly spoke out and introduced new legislation to reject Trump's failing agenda.

Speaker Rivas has convened community meetings across the state, making sure local immigration service providers, legal advocates and community leaders have a strong voice in legislation proposed this year.

And the Assembly is backing up their action with real dollars: The 2026-27 state budget supports immigrants and backfills programs and services under threat due to the Trump administration and federal efforts to terminate essential services and programs.

The budget makes significant, strategic investments to ensure California's immigrants will continue to access health care, legal aid, buy a home and stay safe in their communities:

• Invests $257 million to support immigrant communities, including legal services and DREAM Resource Centers - The Assembly and Senate fought to include $80 million more for legal aid than was proposed in the May Revision. This funding helps workers, parents, students and families access legal representation, navigate the immigration system and connect with critical resources in their communities.
• Prevents health insurance premium increases for many immigrant Californians for an entire year - including DACA recipients, students, workers and undocumented individuals. The new budget sustains health access for thousands of families.
• Preserves access to Medi-Cal coverage for asylees and other qualified immigrants by delaying proposed restrictions due to Trump's agenda. The budget also extends full-scope Medi-Cal coverage for refugees and asylees through the current fiscal year.
• Defends access to care by delaying proposed dental benefit cuts and clinic payment reductions, ensuring immigrant families can continue receiving preventive and routine health services.

Legislation passed this month during the final days of session is now headed to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk for his signature.