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.” [snip]
State leaders are pursuing different policy responses – but the throughline is that federal immigration authorities may find themselves with headaches in some blue states if the proposals become law.
In Illinois, a Democratic state senator has filed legislation that would bar anyone hired by ICE under Trump from obtaining employment in state or local law enforcement.
In conservative Tennessee, a lawmaker has filed legislation that would prohibit federal immigration enforcement actions on school property. And in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul signaled she’ll support legislation that would allow residents to bring civil lawsuits against federal immigration officials for constitutional violations.
Across the Hudson River, New Jersey lawmakers are pushing to codify the state’s practice that limits state and local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities; bar the government and hospitals from collecting immigration information; and set up guidelines on how health care facilities, schools and other institutions should respond to federal immigration authorities. The suite of bills — which started advancing before the Minnesota shooting — could be on Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk this upcoming week...
Steps in the right direction. The most important step would be for States/ local governments to grow a pair and prosecute the lawbreaking thugs. And it looks like the Malignant Fascist and "ICE Barbie" Noem are doubling down ...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday said the federal government will surge more law enforcement to Minneapolis after a U.S. citizen was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Wednesday.
“We’re sending more officers today and tomorrow; they’ll arrive, there’ll be hundreds more, in order to allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely,” Noem said in an appearance on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
The latest surge comes after Renee Nicole Good, the U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday. Noem has said, without providing evidence, that Good was engaged in an act of domestic terrorism when she was shot.
“If you look at what the definition of domestic terrorism is, it completely fits the situation on the ground,” Noem claimed in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “This officer was hit by her vehicle, she weaponized it, and he defended his life and those colleagues around him and the public.” [Ed.: The videos don't lie. She does.]
Good, 37, was shot by an ICE agent positioned in front of her car on Wednesday while driving her SUV forward after agents attempted to remove her from her vehicle. The ICE agent has been identified as Jonathan Ross, two sources familiar with the investigation told MS Now.
Videos of the incident surfaced on Wednesday, prompting protests and nationwide scrutiny of the Trump administration’s tactics as it carries out its mass deportation agenda.
The administration and Noem have defended Ross, arguing that Good attempted to run him over with her vehicle, and have pledged to surge additional officers into Minneapolis. The administration had already moved more federal officers to the region amid reports of widespread social services fraud.
Pressed by CNN host Jake Tapper over why she was comfortable labeling Good a domestic terrorist before an investigation into the shooting can play out, Noem said, without proof, “Everything that I’ve said has been proven to be factual and the truth.”...
We half expected ICE Barbie to combust after that last comment. As most Americans are coming to realize, the "domestic terrorists" are ICE Barbie's and the MF's thugs, feeling unaccountable for their violations of the law and Constitution. Calling the 37-year-old mother of three a "domestic terrorist" is a vile slur that should be a lasting mark on that incompetent, cosplaying adulterer (allegedly!). Even in a regime of the worst of the worst, she stands out.
Government data show the Trump administration’s immigration policies reducing the number of foreign-born workers did not help U.S.-born workers in 2025. The latest data indicate a substantial drop in foreign-born workers did not translate into better labor market outcomes for U.S.-born workers or encourage more workers to enter the labor force. The U.S.-born unemployment rate increased over the past 12 months. Trump officials, including White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, predicted fewer immigrant workers would produce significant benefits for U.S.-born workers.
The latest jobs report confirms what other monthly reports showed in 2025: Fewer foreign-born workers are in the U.S. labor force due to the Trump administration’s policies on legal and illegal immigration. “The Bureau of Labor Statistics household survey shows a decline of 881,000 foreign-born workers since the start of the Trump administration in January 2025, and a drop of 1.3 million since a peak in March 2025,” according to a National Foundation for American Policy analysis.
The NFAP analysis notes the drop in the size of the immigrant labor force represents a shock for the U.S. economy but is even larger when compared to the expected level. In their assumptions, the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security Administration expected approximately 1.3 million more foreign-born workers in 2025, which would create a gap of more than 2 million expected workers once 810,000 fewer foreign-born workers in the latest BLS data are added.
Why is labor force growth essential? Economic growth, which raises a country’s living standards, relies on labor force growth and productivity growth, and immigrants are essential to both, particularly given their role in boosting productivity and America’s aging workforce. Immigrant workers accounted for more than half of U.S. labor force growth between 2014 and 2024.
“The Trump administration’s policies on illegal and legal immigration would reduce the projected number of workers in the United States by 6.8 million by 2028 and by 15.7 million by 2035 and lower the annual rate of economic growth by almost one-third,” according to an October 2025 NFAP analysis... (our emphasis)
Beyond the cruelty and inhumanity of their immigration policy, and the lawless brutality of ICE/ DHS, their racist plan to benefit "native-born workers" (i.e., "white males") isn't producing the results they predicted and, in fact, is leading to lower economic growth that will impact everyone. What could possibly go wrong by trusting economic policy to business genius MF, racist white nationalist crackpot Stephen "PeeWee Goebbels" Miller, and the MF's "invincible ignoramus" chief economic advisor Kevin Hassett? We're seeing what happens already.
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