Judge Nap: ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’ for California To Tell Private Businesses To Not Cooperate with ICE

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NAPOLITANO: "We have three California state laws that the Justice Department is challenging. One law says if you work for the government in California, local, county, regional or state, and ICE comes knocking on the door, you shall not cooperate. As frustrating as that is, in my opinion and the courts have upheld this, the state of California can regulate its employees. Second statute -- this is really outrageous. If you own a private business and ICE comes knocking, you shall not cooperate, that is blatantly unconstitutional. The state of California can’t tell you how to run your business and it can't tell you what to say to the federal government. Third statute, this is really the first time I see anything like this since the civil war; the state of California can inspect federal facilities for health and safety. That means state agents can go into federal facilities where they are holding immigrants and say we don’t like the way you are treating this person. We are going to take him with us. That is also unconstitutional in my opinion, but it will take a little while for the courts to get there."