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That's really not what the new law is about. Did you even read it man??
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB450
The new law PUNISH you as an employer if you CHOOSE to allow the Feds to enter your company's private property without a warrant, eventhough it is well within your rights to do so because it's YOUR property.
The penalty is between $2000 to $10,000 for each "violation".
"Except as otherwise required by federal law, the bill would prohibit an employer or other person acting on the employer’s behalf from providing voluntary consent to an immigration enforcement agent to enter nonpublic areas of a place of labor unless the agent provides a judicial warrant, except as specified. Except as required by federal law, the bill would prohibit an employer or other person acting on the employer’s behalf from providing voluntary consent to an immigration enforcement agent to access, review, or obtain the employer’s employee records without a subpoena or court order, subject to a specified exception."
Ya, I did read several parts of it.
They can allow ICE agents on their property all they want. What they cannot do, is allow them into nonpublic areas (ie., where records are kept) for the purposes of obtaining employee records (which an employer does not own, and has no right to just give out to anyone they please), without a subpoena.
If you work for somebody, go into HR and ask them where they keep employee records. They will tell you they are in a locked cabinet. There's a reason they are in a locked cabinet, with controlled access to said cabinet. Your employer cannot disseminate such information to anyone they want just because they are an employer who keeps records.
If ICE however, walks in with a subpoena, whereby a judge has declared there is a potential specific problem, then by all means.