Scott is a national leader on accountability for ICE, Border Patrol, and other agencies violating the law and terrorizing communities. Scott authored and passed our nation’s first law banning ICE and other law enforcement from wearing Gestapo-like face masks they use to hide from accountability and create an atmosphere of impunity — the No Secret Police Act. After a federal court ruled that California does, in fact, have power to ban federal agents from wearing face masks, Scott is authoring follow up legislation to ensure the law is fully enforceable.
Now Scott is fighting to pass the No Kings Act, which allows California residents to sue ICE and other federal agents for violating your rights. Under current law, it’s nearly impossible to sue a federal agent for excessive force, false arrest, etc. — leading to a sense of impunity and emboldened aggression by agents toward the public. Scott’s bill will put an end to that impunity.
Scott has also worked for years to ensure immigrants receive fair treatment in California. He authored a law to prevent immigrants from being forced to disclose their immigration status in open court when it isn’t relevant, preventing the justice system from exploiting immigrants and targeting them. He also helped pass a law to prevent landlords from using immigration status as leverage against tenants in eviction disputes.
Since 2018, Scott has supported abolishing ICE, which is a broken agency. With armed secret police publicly executing people in the streets, we need leaders who stand up and deliver real results to protect communities from terror and violence and to fully embrace immigrant communities as key parts of American life. Chinga la migra.
