{"id":19823,"date":"2025-10-23T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/19823\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:16:08","slug":"california-cops-may-arrest-ice-agents-if-they-violate-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/19823\/","title":{"rendered":"California cops \u201cmay arrest\u201d ICE agents if they violate law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, D-Calif., on Wednesday said that California<\/a> state and local authorities \u201cmay arrest\u201d agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if they violate state law while conducting immigration raids in the San Francisco Bay Area. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The raids, which are expected to begin this week, have drawn widespread criticism from politicians and elected officials in California. President Donald Trump<\/a> called the city \u201cwoke,\u201d<\/a> promising to \u201cgo\u201d to the city and \u201cmake it great again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pelosi, alongside fellow San Francisco-area Democratic Rep. Kevin Mullins, called the raids \u201can appalling abuse of power\u201d and attacked the Trump administration in a statement<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the President may enjoy absolute immunity courtesy of his rogue Supreme Court, those who operate under his orders do not,\u201d the statement read. \u201cOur state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they break California law \u2014 and if they are convicted, the President cannot pardon them.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pelosi doubled down on her statement in a social media post<\/a>, defending \u201cpatriotic immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not be intimidated by politically motivated fear tactics,\u201d Pelosi said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the legal grounds for arresting ICE agents is unclear, it is possible to sue and prosecute agents that violate state laws, such as excessive force, according to a report from the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a> has promised to sue if the Trump administration deploys the National Guard to the city, vowing to take the administration to court the \u201cnanosecond\u201d such a move is considered.<\/p>\n

\u201cSend troops to San Francisco and we will sue you,\u201d Newsom said in a social media post<\/a> directed at Trump. <\/p>\n

Newsom previously filed a restraining order<\/a> against Trump for deploying<\/a> the National Guard to Los Angeles during immigration protests<\/a>. A lawsuit from Newsom followed, and, in September, a judge found that the deployment was illegal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The post Pelosi: California cops \u201cmay arrest\u201d ICE agents if they violate law<\/a> appeared first on Salon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Wednesday said that California state and local authorities \u201cmay arrest\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,536,457,3537,2778,16418,8669,1848],"class_list":["post-19823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-ice-agents","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-local-authorities","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-state-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}