SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- Before signing the "No Secret Police" bill over the weekend, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the legislation would reduce the number of ICE raids in the state.

During a news conference before he officially signed the bill into law, Newsom rhetorically asked "ICE, unmask, what are you afraid of?”

The bill prohibits Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wearing most masks during raids and other operations throughout California.

The mandate applies to most law enforcement in the state.

"This is about the secret police," Newsom said. "We’re not North Korea Mr. President, we’re not the Soviet Union, we’re the United States of America, and we’re pushing back against these authoritarian tendencies and actions of this administration.”

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