States move to rein in ICE after fatal Minnesota shooting

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

01/11/2026 07:00 AM EST


Blue state lawmakers have had it with ICE. State legislatures across the country are accelerating efforts to shape immigration enforcement policy after the deadly shooting of a Minnesota woman by a federal agent, raising tensions between local leaders and the Trump administration.

From California to New York and Illinois to New Jersey, they’re pushing a range of bills aimed at limiting enforcement and protecting people targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while turning up the rhetoric with comparisons to the Gestapo.

Some policies were moving before an ICE agent fatally shot Renée Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother last week. But her death has been cited by lawmakers as reason to squeeze ICE out of their states.

New York state Sen. Pat Fahy, who sponsored a bill that would prohibit ICE agents from wearing masks and one that would create a state dashboard tracking immigration officials’ activity, said “momentum is on our side.” “To me, this goes beyond immigration,” she said. “People understand now that masked, armed men in our city and suburban streets [are] seriously eroding any form of public trust in law enforcement. Some of these issues are having more universal appeal.”

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. And it's about time to move against ICE! A bunch of thugs carrying live weapons to kill us.

[EarlG]

2. They've gone way too far

and I don’t mean from a moral point of view because they crossed that line long ago. I mean from a political point of of view.

They have had the opportunity previously to claim that anyone opposing ICE is actually opposed to immigration control. (The old “Democrats want open borders” lie.) And after the shooting of Renee Good, they tried to pull the old “Democrats want to defund the police” lie when people were talking about cracking down on ICE’s funding.

But I don’t think those canards are working, because it’s appparent to anyone with eyes that what ICE is doing now looks more like armed gestapo terrorizing and intimidating civilians — including American citizens — rather than anything to do with immigration enforcement.

[mysteryowl]

3. Hope their actions will stick.

[madville]

4. Will just be symbolic

States have no authority over the federal government or federal law enforcement, we’ve seen this in years past with red states attempting to pass state legislation contrary to the ATF and IRS and attempting to create loopholes in federal laws, they always lose in court or the federal government just ignores them.