Excerpt from the Mercury News. Read the full article here.
“Rachel Lederman, senior counsel with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and the Center for Protest Law & Litigation, said being able to clearly identify law enforcement is crucial in the current climate.
“We’re seeing ICE agents and other federal agents operating not just in plainclothes, but with their faces covered and no indication they are a law enforcement officer. And we have immigrants who are fleeing countries where there are masked agents chasing them and carrying out extrajudicial assassinations and abductions,” Lederman said. “I don’t know how much impact this legislation will have on federal agents, but it’s a major issue contributing to panic and terror in the community.”