Also many people may not necessarily know how a real ICE badge looks like. And fake badges are available for collectors and cosplayers alike. Also most people will not fully check or examine a badge or insignia, meaning by the time they realize it is fake it will be too late.

Isn’t this already happening?

You should not be under any obligation to assume or respect any proposed authority by a person unwilling to show you their face.

Explaining this to the guy with a badge and a mask shoving a gun in my face.

He's screaming and cocking the weapon, while a few of his friends approach me with tasers and clubs, but I'm just going to stand here waving a copy of John Locke's Social Contract while explaining that I am a Free Man On The Land and do not make joinder.

Conversely, I should not be required to show my face to anyone if I'm not trying to assert authority over them. Being a public servant means having a public identity, being a private citizen means you have the freedom to make choices about what you share.

It's a state legislature attempting to regulate a federal agency. Even if it manages to make it to the Governor's desk, you know Newsom will veto it, because he's a cowardly little toad man who has never found a boat he was above licking. And if, by some miracle it survives the legislature and Newsom discovers his spine, the federal courts will bat this away overnight.

All that is assuming Silicon Valley doesn't have enough votes in the state house to smoother this proposal in committee.

Why even worry about the language of a DOA bill? You're not stopping ICE from Sacramento. Not with the current crop of liberal dorks and techbro shills running things.

Id would be trivial to fake. So either way it wouldn't solve much without a hefty penalty for using a fake one.

I can think of a few forms of encouragement.

Problem is they aren't required to prove it to you - some witness - unless it's your child that's involved, and they can take their sweet time providing proof to the person being detained as well, waiting until they've already thrown you to the ground and cuffed you.

It's totally reasonable, but it'll probably also get you deported to El Salvador. Or at the very least beat.

A face can be seen, recognized and recorded from a distance. Video doesn't usually do any good with badges and other identification but cops and criminals both - or one and the same - risk being identified if they don't have masks.

Yep. There's a non-zero chance that maga civilians are dressing tactical and kidnapping people they believe shouldn't be here. I hope not, but there's really no way to know either way at this point.

This includes the "ghost letter" bullshit. They claim it's so they can blend in and catch violations as they happen. Bro everyone can see a cop driving from a mile away by the way they drive, the reinforced grill, the slightly beefier trim to hide the installed lights, etc.

Has an undercover cop ever really benefited the people?

I'd love to be corrected on this, but when it comes to cops, I'ma doubt that real fucking fast.

Doesn't matter if it passes. The president doesn't abide by the law, so they don't need to either.

Then, when a Democratic president takes office the court will walk it back and say “well, actually, there’s this exception, and this exception, and that exception…”

Or they won't, because the Dem president will simply "not abuse such powers" due to their "adherence to decorum".

The SC made the president god-king while Biden was in office.

Stop hogging the time machine, give someone else a chance to document inevitable future