Swalwell to ICE Agents: If You’re Going To Wear A Mask And Not Identify Yourself, I’ll Take Your Driver’s License Away
California gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D) on MS NOW threatened to strip ICE agents of their driver’s licenses.
JASON JOHNSON, MS NOW HOST: So, Congressman, you jumped ahead to the question I was going to ask you. What would you do if you are able to be elected as governor of California? Yes, we’ve seen over just not just one year of this new regime that it’s the states that tend to be the strongest pushback. It’s the governors of Illinois, it’s the governors of Michigan, governors of Virginia, Maryland, everything else like that. What will you bring to the table? Because California, just by size and GDP alone, is sort of the tip of the spear. What would you bring to the table as a governor of California? REP. ERIC SWALWELL (D-CA): Well, you have immense powers as governor of California, and your responsibility is to protect the most vulnerable in the state. So if the president is going to send ICE agents to chase immigrants to the fields where they work, what I’m going to do is make sure that they take off their masks and show their faces, that they show their identification, and if they commit crimes, that they’re going to be charged with crimes. If it’s falsely imprisoning people, if it’s kidnapping, if it’s assault, battery, they’re going to be held accountable. I also think if the governor has the ability to issue driver’s licenses to people in California, if you’re going to wear a mask and not identify yourself, you’re not going to be eligible to drive a vehicle in California. There’s a lot you can do, but most importantly, you have to go on offense. Otherwise, the most vulnerable in our community will always be on defense.
