Overview
- During a podcast conversation with Ben Shapiro, Gavin Newsom said California has coordinated more than 10,000 state-prison transfers to ICE since he took office and asserted the state likely leads the nation in such transfers.
- He agreed it was fair to say ICE officers are not terrorists after his press office described a Minneapolis shooting involving ICE as “state-sponsored terrorism.”
- Newsom emphasized that California’s prison system works directly with ICE and said he vetoed multiple bills that would have restricted transfer practices.
- Shapiro challenged California’s sanctuary policies as obstacles to local information-sharing with ICE, contrasting limited local cooperation with the state-prison transfer channel.
- For additional context, a Center for Immigration Studies analysis reported California accounted for 52% of ICE detainers from Oct. 2022 to Feb. 2025, and earlier Los Angeles unrest after ICE operations led to a National Guard deployment and a new state law barring masked ICE officers.