It’s night and there’s a loud knock on the door. The family is tense. The parents look into each other’s eyes. Who is it? We are agents of public order, they say on the other side. Or they say they are probation officers. Looking through, they see that their jackets say Police.
They open the door and enter. They were law enforcement officers, yes, but from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). From La Migra.
Using tricks, tricks and lies, officers have repeated this scene countless times, undermining public trust in real police officers.
They have done it for a year, but they won’t do it again.
The SB 852 project was approved by a unanimous vote by the State Legislature on September 2 and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on the 28th of the same month, becoming law.
A law that prohibits officers from falsely identifying themselves as someone they are not.
The author of the law is Susan Rubio, the state senator who has represented the 22nd district in Sacramento since 2018.
This law, which is cleverly called by the acronym PROTECT – “The Prohibiting Rogue Officers Tricks and Ensuring Community Trust” exemplifies Rubio’s work in the Legislature.
“The law will prohibit ICE from relying on these imposter tactics, even when conducting enforcement operations in our homes, thereby making our communities safer,” Rubio wrote when the Legislature passed the act.
Susan Rubio’s identification with the undocumented is patent and open. The thing is that she herself was one, having been born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and illegally emigrated to the country when her parents – a farmer and a housekeeper – brought her with them. Living in El Paso, they were deported. She was five years old. And she remembers what she felt when her parents were arrested.
Also approved by unanimous vote the same month was SB 14, sponsored by Rubio, which protects California children by classifying child sex trafficking as a serious crime that could lead to life in prison in certain cases.
A few days later, on October 10, 2023, the governor signed into law SB 545, which prevents children victimized in foster care or the child welfare system from being tried as adults if they commit a crime. violent against his abuser. In this way it corrects an injustice that was committed against these victims.
Again, Susan Rubio is the main sponsor of this law. And again, this is related to her personal life. Los Angeles journalists still remember that in 2016, when she was a Baldwin Park councilwoman and her husband was an assemblywoman, she accused him of domestic violence. From hitting her for years. Like so many victims, she hid the crime for years. No more. It took special courage to report it and she had it.
The husband lost his leadership powers and then left the Assembly. She is now a successful senator and congressional candidate.
Rubio also had to overcome the rejection or indifference of the leaders of the Democratic party in California, who in the Senate elections supported his rival and then ignored his victory.
He never left the Southern California area. After finishing high school he went on to the East Los Angeles Community School and finally to Azusa Pacific University – a private evangelical university – where he obtained a teaching certificate.
She worked as a teacher for years and serves in the Legislature under special license.
Susan Rubio is now running for congress in the March 5 primary. Real America News has supported her candidacy.
The district is in the San Gabriel Valley, and includes among others the cities of Azusa, Baldwin Park, Covina, El Monte, La Puente, La Verne and San Dimas and parts of Monrovia, City of Industry and Glendora, and is contained in the congressional district in dispute.
Incumbent Grace Napolitano is retiring at age 87 from Congress, opening the door to these elections for the first time since 1999.
Susan’s sister, Blanca Rubio, is an Assembly Member representing the area since 2016.