‘That’s not who we are as Americans or as a country,’ Say State Senator Mike McGuire in Speech About ICE and CBP
Press release from State Senator Mike McGuire. (Please remember that this is not neutral reporting but a press release from an interested party):
Today, State Senator Mike McGuire, candidate for U.S. Congress in CA-01, delivered a powerful speech on the floor of the California State Senate in support of the “No Kings Act,” a bill that would ensure federal agents – such as ICE and CBP – can be accountable for constitutional violations.
“[ICE agents] took a five year old, terrified and confused, knocking on his damn parents’ door, still wearing his Spider-Man backpack from school, and used him to lure out his dad and then arrested him.” McGuire said, holding back tears, “You want to stand up here and defend that? Go right ahead. That’s not who we are as Americans or as a country.”
Watch & download Senator McGuire’s full remarks here.
“It’s easy to be scared and angry right now, but we have to turn that anger into action, and that’s how we stop this,” McGuire continued, “That’s what we’re doing today with Senate Bill 747, the No Kings Act. We’re making clear that federal agents who violate constitutional rights will no longer be shielded from accountability in this state”
The goal of SB747 is to align existing state liability law and allow lawsuits against federal law enforcement agencies and agents when there are violations of an individual’s constitutional rights.
View and download Senator McGuire’s remarks here, and read the transcript below:
I rise today in support of Senate Bill 747, and thank the Senator from San Francisco for his work on this today.
I rise today not just as a member of the Senate, but as a dad.
Erika and my son, Connor, turns five years old next month. Five years old. And like so many parents across this country, I watched in disbelief last week as photographs emerged of ICE agents literally kidnapping a five year old in Minnesota. A child named Liam Conejo Ramos, he’s nearly the same age as Connor.
They didn’t kidnap him because the child had done anything wrong, because they wanted to use him as bait.
As bait.
They took a five year old, terrified and confused, knocking on his damn parents’ door, still wearing his Spider Man backpack from school, and used him to lure out his dad and then arrested him. You want to stand up here and defend that? Go right ahead. That’s not who we are as Americans or as a country.
But it doesn’t start or end there, like millions of Americans we watched with horror this past weekend as ICE agents murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Let’s call it what it is, state-sponsored violence. Just under three weeks ago, we watched as Renee Good was murdered by the secret police.
Right now, there are kids across America, right here in Sacramento and across the state, who are too afraid to go to school. Parents across this country who won’t go to work because they don’t want to be separated from their kids and deported. You talk to doctors and nurse practitioners, parents aren’t sending their kids to the doctor anymore because they’re afraid of being deported.
Not because they are criminals, but because they are being targeted by the color of their skin. It’s called racial profiling, and it’s unconstitutional.
This is not the America that we fight for every day.
This is what we should be fighting against. It’s called fascism.
And look, I think it’s easy to be scared and angry right now, but we have to turn that anger into action, and that’s how we stop this. That’s what we’re doing today with Senate Bill 747, the No Kings Act. We’re making clear that federal agents who violate constitutional rights will no longer be shielded from accountability in this state. No secret police.
And if you violate someone’s constitutional rights, you can be held accountable in a court of law, just like all of us. Just like all of us in the California State Senate.
So let’s show the rest of America that California will not be silent. Being silent at this point in time in our nation’s history would be immoral. We would be complicit.
We will not be intimidated. We are better than this in this country. And together, we’re going to prove it.
Would recommend an aye vote on Senate Bill 747.
Please note: To the best of our understanding, in spite of the above statement, the child, Liam Conejo Ramos, was not used as bait to draw out his father but rather, after his father was taken into custody taken to the family’s door to draw out his mother so she could be arrested.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ice-detains-four-children-minnesota-school-district-school-officials-say-2026-01-22/
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“They took a five year old, terrified and confused, knocking on his damn parents’ door, still wearing his Spider Man backpack from school, and used him to lure out his dad and then arrested him. You want to stand up here and defend that? Go right ahead. That’s not who we are as Americans or as a country.”
McGuire you’re full of shit.
“As agents approached the driver Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, fled on foot—abandoning his child. For the child’s safety, one of our ICE officers remained with the child while the other officers apprehended Conejo Arias,” DHS said in a statement to PEOPLE and on X.
DHS added that it was not targeting the child and that it is part of ICE’s policy to ask parents if they want to be removed with their children. They noted that if they aren’t removed together, the children will be left with a safe person designated by a parent.
McGuire is a Lier
That may or may not be true, but Trump and Kristi “Dog Killer” Noem are proven liars.
DHS is not a credible source.
Absolute nonsense. Looks like you’re about as trustworthy as McGuire.
Let me ask you… was the DHS a credible source when that ghoul, Mayorkas was head of Department of Homeland Security?
Fatherland Security has NEVER been credible, like almost all Federal regime bureaucracies.
Just stop. Find a real news source. Without one you are just repeating lies.
There are witnesses stating that, though DHS refutes it. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ice-detains-four-children-minnesota-school-district-school-officials-say-2026-01-22
Dang! Reuters is a good source. That picture is chilling. If this is what ICE is doing they need to stop it immediately. I’m in favor of the deportation program but ICE needs to get professional and leave the children out of it. And a few other things! I don’t know why they have to overreact so horribly- they are putting their own program at risk with such behavior…can’t they see that?!
Reuters is a useless link…
Liar liar Mike McGuire……….
Mr. Clark, yet another chump for Trump.
Anything coming from the Department of Fatherland Security should be regarded as lies.
The kids should have remained in Minnesota. Sending them to Texas was intentional…intentionally-troublesome and intentionally-cruel.
That’s rich! Coming from the thought police? Nah. I don’t care what you think. I’ll make my own opinions, thank you.
Amen!
The father ran away and abandoned his child. The mother refused to open the door and let the child in the house. What did you expect the LEOs to do in below freezing weather, leave the child outside? The poor kid was let down by both of his parents.
Ya do the same thing you do with an “abandoned” fawn. Go away and the mother will come fetch it.
Provide actual evidence of your allegation. Spew from the spokesliars of the Ministry of Fatherland Security is not evidence.
I love it when partisan politicians tell us who we are as Americans.
i wasn’t sure who I was until he told me I should be like him, a steroid user from the Oakland A’s
Oh, snap! I thought Mike McGuire was Jim Carrey’s untalented little brother!
That was Mark McGuire, not Mike, but whatever.
Such different points of view on this story! Best to check a variety of news sources – not all of the same slant – before deciding what the truth may be.
That’s funny. Which news source should we use this one? Yes
Lies, all lies. Yet you continue to print this far left propaganda without end. A couple sentences of “disclaimer” won’t do it. You are nothing but an Antifa house organ.
Federal agents are ridding this country of the worst of the worst: child molesters, child rapists, pedophiles, gang members, thugs and murderers. Treasonous scumbags like McGuire fan the flames of sedition. Defending monsters is nothing new for the Bolshevist left, but creating fake laws to stop them from protecting us is beyond the pale. McGuire, you are a POS traitor and belong in federal prison.
And as long as this website spews lies and propaganda, the owners and admins and Communist scribblers they employ are enemies of the seventy plus MILLION patriotic Americans who voted for this, who voted to remove ALL criminal invaders from our soil.
Deport. Deport. Deport.
Your “President” is a rapist and pedophile, but you support him. He’s killed hundreds of people, and, in accordance with his bragging statement of “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters” is proving correct.
Give us a list of the “worst of the worst” that ICE and BP thugs have rounded up. I see natural-born American Indians, little kids, even White European white collar workers attacked by ICE thugs.
Adolf used the very same “arguments” of “protecting the Volk and Reich” as we’re seeing now, and we know how that “law enforcement” campaign ended up.
Remember, everything Adolf did was “legal.” Just like ICE.
Jesus Christ- he just can’t stop can he?! We should all be focusing on what has happened but to McGuire and the DEMs it’s always propaganda points and lies and spewing hate. ICE did not “murder” Pretti or Renee Good. At least not until a court of law says so! They KILLED them-yes. Can’t just state the terrible facts-he’s always got to hyper-inflate the rhetoric. You know who else lies and hyper-inflates the rhetoric? Yeah-Trump! And Kristi Noem. It sounds like crap coming from either side of the aisle. Oh yeah- fascists are everywhere…BOTH sides of the aisle. Don’t dare to have a differing viewpoint or then you are the enemy of these jacked-up DEMs. Crank that hate! But then that’s the hate that helped fuel the tension up in MN in the first place. Should have had local police protecting the operation up there but Walz refused and so…shit predictably went sideways. They’d have us believe what?- if we just stopped and allowed all the illegal immigrants to stay then we can live in bliss? DEMs would sound so much better if they were just reasonable about the problems with ICE instead of their hyper-hate and obvious desire to whip the population into yet more violent confrontation. Like pretending it’s totally okay to carry guns into confrontations with federal officers. It’s not okay. I refuse to let McGuire define who I am as an American. I hate BOTH parties- all liars and all fraudsters…To see him standing on these dead bodies to further push his words of hate and division is disgusting…
How dare these people invade our country to take the crappiest jobs around and raise their families in a peaceful democratic country, who do they think they are? Just because millions of white people are here today because their grandparents or great grandparents came from Europe and other countries (legally and illegally) to find safety and raise their families doesn’t mean a thing! (The defunding of our schools all these years is really paying off, folks will believe anything!)
The schools aren’t defunded. The California Lottery was pitched as the “be all, end all” to supplement school funding after proposition 13 passed and it takes in billions every year. Problem is the amount going to schools decreased substantially in 2010 to give winners more payouts.
That, and Democratic Socialists run California. You would think with a party that touts itself as pro-education, California schools would be great, college would be free and everyone would be an educated genius, right?
Gavin Newsom wants to be President. Here’s some bullet points for his campaign;
California K-12 schools rank 30th to 44th nationally (depending on the poll)
California ranks 1st in the homeless population and it’s getting higher!
California ranks dead last in affordability (based on cost of living). It’s interesting that the new Democratic buzzword heading into the midterms is “affordability”. Here’s a list of the Last 11 in Motto Mortgage’s cost of living ranking:
40 Rhode Island
41 Maryland
42 Connecticut
43 Oregon
44 New York
45 New Hampshire
46 New Jersey
47 Massachusetts
48 Washington
49 Hawaii
50 California
Interesting that all of those states are Blue States, isn’t it?
Now let’s look at the states with the most taxes.
According to Turbo Tax, California has the highest tax rate at 13.3%. As a matter of fact, 6 of the 10 states ranked last in affordability are ranked highest in tax rates. But California is number one! (Yay… not!)
Wanna talk about the price of gasoline? I don’t…
It boggles the mind how Leftists want LESS of the same (high taxes, high numbers of people living in the streets, terrible schools, high cost of living) but think that electing Democratic Socialists is going to make things better!
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS ARE THE ONES WHO MADE IT CRAPPY!
My, My, My… Aren’t you virtuous McGuire! It was your party that let all these unveted people into our county. Damn you and your attitude.
Yes, by far the most of the people that sneaked across the border are great and wonderful people, and I welcome them, and think they belong here.
However, your party allowed the most heinous people in the world to just walk right in. Now that the country is trying to get rid of the worst of the worse, it is your party fighting tooth and nail to interfere.
In my heart, I am neither Democrat or Republican, but I am an American. And most Americans feel just like me that politics and the political antics are what is screwing up this country. Get the hell over yourself McGuire and your magnanimous virtuous crybaby crap and start fixing the problem.
“..rather, after his father was taken into custody taken to the family’s door to draw out his mother so she could be arrested.’
-Kym Kemp-
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So, You are saying his mother was also arrested…???
Or is what you are saying pure speculation, …???
Who exactly alleged the child was used as bait to lure out the mother so she could be arrested…???
The school superintendent…???
If the child’s mother wasn’t , in fact, lured out and arrested, it’s all bullshit Kym Kemp…
Here is an account from a credible news agency, CNN…
“The Department of Homeland Security claimed Liam’s father is an “illegal alien” from Ecuador and said agents took the boy with them after the father said he wanted Liam to stay with him.”
“DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin reiterated the agency’s account in a statement Tuesday, saying the father fled on foot as agents approached, “abandoning his child.” ”
“ICE has said it “did not, and has never, ‘used a child as bait.’ ”
“Our officers made multiple attempts to get the alleged mother who was inside the house to take custody of her child. Officers even assured her she would NOT be taken” into custody, McLaughlin said. “The alleged mother refused to accept custody of the child.” ”
School officials have accused agents of trying to use the child to lure his mother into detention. ”
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But, this…
“but rather, after his father was taken into custody taken to the family’s door to draw out his mother so she could be arrested.”
-RHBB-
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….is a totally false, entirely untrue, fictional allegation, which is nothing but an utter, politically biased, fabrication…
And the fact that that statement is total steaming bullshit, is unquestionably born out by the fact that, “his mother” was not, in fact, “drawn” out, or “arrested”…
It’s nothing but a false, politically motivated vicious rumor being irresponsibly and shamelessly spread…
Continued …
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/judge-blocks-deportation-minneapolis-5-year-old