Border Patrol makes arrest outdoors Gavin Newsom rally in LA

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U.S. Border Patrol brokers had a powerful presence outdoors an anti-Trump rally by California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in Los Angeles on Thursday. The brokers made at the least one arrest.

Newsom, who's rumored to have presidential aspirations and has turn out to be one of the vital outspoken critics of President Donald Trump , held the occasion, which he labeled "Liberation Day," to announce plans to answer the GOP’s redistricting push in Texas.

In a social media submit shortly earlier than the rally, Newsom predicted that "Donald Trump and [Texas Governor] Greg Abbott are going to have a really unhealthy day immediately."

Video taken by native affiliate Fox 11 and obtained by Fox Information confirmed what gave the impression to be over a dozen armed and masked Border Patrol brokers simply outdoors the rally. The brokers might be seen main a person away in handcuffs as onlookers shouted angrily.

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U.S. Border Patrol brokers had a powerful presence outdoors an anti-Trump rally by California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in Los Angeles on Thursday. The brokers made at the least one arrest. ( Fox 11 LA; Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Instances through Getty Photographs)

Talking with Fox 11, Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino defined, "We’re right here making Los Angeles a safer place."

"Since we received’t have politicians who will try this, we try this ourselves. So, that’s why we’re right here immediately. As you'll be able to see, already making it a safer place," mentioned Bovino.

The Border Patrol chief added, "We’re glad to be right here, not going anyplace."

Requested what his message to Newsom was, Bovino answered: "Once more, we’re making Los Angeles a safer place, we’re going to proceed to try this, and so they can take that one to the financial institution and money it."

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In response to the federal brokers’ presence, Newsom’s workplace emailed Fox Information Digital an announcement in all-capital letters, "WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED BY WEAK LITTLE DONALD TRUMP, THE CRIMINAL PRESIDENT!"

Through the occasion, Newsom’s press group posted on X that "TRUMP’S PRIVATE ARMY IS ILLEGALLY ON PRIVATE PROPERTY!!!!"

Throughout his remarks, Newsom acknowledged the federal brokers, saying, "Proper outdoors at this precise second are dozens and dozens of ICE brokers."

"Do you suppose it is coincidental?" he remarked. "Donald Trump and his minions, Tom Homan , robust man. Determined, coincidentally or not, that this was a location to advance ICE arrests. Indiscriminate? Maybe. we'll discover out later."

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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom (Justin Sullivan/Getty Photographs)

"Get up, America. it is a critical second. Get up to what is going on on. Get up to the concern, anxiousness. Get up to what's taking place. Not simply right here in Los Angeles , the place we noticed our streets militarized, the place we noticed our due course of rights thrown out the window," he mentioned. "That is Trump's America. That is the second we're residing in. So, these are sober instances."