In the new year, California Democratic lawmakers are advancing bills to confront aggressive immigration enforcement tactics by the Trump administration and protect immigrant communities.

The latest is a bill from Bay Area Democratic Senators Scott Wiener and Aisha Wahab.

Their No Kings Act would make it easier for people to sue federal agents over civil rights violations.

This bill comes after federal agents gunned down Alex Preti, a US citizen, an ICU nurse in Minnesota.

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Everyone has constitutional rights and everyone should have the ability to hold people accountable when they violate those rights.

Another bill by Culver City Democratic Assembly member Isaac Bryan would ban law enforcement from taking a side job as a federal immigration agent.

Bryan said the measure is especially timely as the federal administration ramps up its recruitment of California's local law enforcement.

California Democrats are also trying to keep immigration agents away from courthouses.

A third bill by Senator Luis Gomez Reyes, a San Bernardino Democrat, was introduced to prevent federal immigration agents from making unannounced and indiscriminate arrests in courthouses.

Senator Susan Rubio introduced a bill that would allow remote courthouse appearances for many civil or criminal state court hearings, trials, or conferences until January 2029.

The bills follow a slate of legislation signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom last year to resist the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign in California, including a first in the nation measure to prohibit officers from wearing masks and others that limit their access to schools and hospitals.

Meanwhile, Republicans have criticized the measures which they characterize as overstepping on federal priorities.

For CalMatters, I'm Cayla Mihalovich, with reporting by Maya Miller and Wendy Fry.