With just three months left before Californians cast their ballots in the primary, new proposals in the Legislature aim to keep the Trump administration out of state elections.

Top Democratic lawmakers are backing several bills they say will protect voters from possible election interference, including one that would prohibit law enforcement — including ICE officers — within 200 feet of voting centers.

Senate Bill 884 was authored by state Sens. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, and Sabrina Cervantes, D-Riverside. They said the goal is to ensure federal law enforcement officials cannot intimidate voters.

“Clearly, the purpose of putting ICE in polling places or surrounding polling places would be to intimidate people,” Umberg said.

Asm. Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego, said Democrats are suggesting illegal immigrants are showing up to vote — something he thinks would lend credence to his campaign for voter ID. But Umberg said it’s a canard to suggest undocumented immigrants are voting.

“Historically, it’s been nil here in California,” he said. “If you are, for example, a new citizen, and you see masked ICE individuals at polling places, folks would likely turn and walk away.”

In his State of the Union address last week, President Donald Trump baselessly accused Democrats of wanting to cheat in the 2026 midterms.

Out of concern that the president could attempt to interfere in state-run elections, Umberg and Cervantes also support a bill that would block the administration from inspecting voting machines without a federal court order.

“At the end of the day, we know what Trump is going to do because he told us what he’s going to do,” Cervantes said. “He will dismantle elections piece by piece and we will not allow that to happen.”

The Trump Administration did not comment on the bills; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not either.

The bill includes an urgency clause, which would make it take effect immediately, allowing rules to be enacted before the June 2 primary.

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