California Gov. Gavin Newsom suffered a public meltdown at a downtown Los Angeles rally when ICE and Border Patrol agents began arresting illegal immigrants in the crowd.
Visibly furious as the news reached him mid-speech, Newsom blasted the arrests as “pretty sick and pathetic.”
Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, present at the event, told reporters, “We’re here making Los Angeles a safer place — since we don’t have politicians who will do that, we do it ourselves.”
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The Democratic governor, who is widely expected to launch a bid for the White House in 2028, suggested the operation was directly ordered by President Donald Trump.
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“It was top down. You know that for a fact. They’ll deny it—well, maybe they won’t deny it,” Newsom told reporters after delivering a news conference on the state’s redistricting efforts.
Newsweek reports: On Thursday, Border Patrol agents swept into downtown Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, converging near a news conference where Newsom and other state leaders were outlining California’s pushback against Texas’ redistricting plans.
During the operation, at least one person was taken into custody.
The action was part of a broader wave of immigration enforcement across Los Angeles and other Southern California communities, tied to Trump’s pledge to carry out a mass deportation campaign.
Federal officials have cited arrests of undocumented immigrants with violent criminal convictions as evidence of the policy’s effectiveness.
But those ensnared in the nationwide raids have also included asylum-seekers, green card holders, people who overstayed their visas and migrants still awaiting their immigration court hearings.
