California Democrats held a rally on Thursday to announce plans to push for redistricting modifications in response to President Donald Trump’s order for Republicans to additional gerrymander districts. Exterior the occasion in California, U.S. Border Patrol brokers in full gear walked round carrying weaponry.
“We absolutely targeted all of Los Angeles yesterday,” he replied. “We had 40 law enforcement teams spread across Los Angeles, going after those bad people and bad things.”
Bovino claimed {that a} suspected member of the Tren de Aragua gang had been arrested just a few blocks away from the placement, however he supplied no proof to substantiate his claims. The Trump administration and different Republicans have regularly invoked the Venezuelan gang to justify immigration enforcement abuses.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks throughout a information convention on Aug. 14 in Los Angeles.
The looks is consistent with Bovino’s methodology of doing enterprise. He regularly seems within the media to advertise harsh right-wing remedy of migrant populations and their households.
He additionally has a historical past of mendacity. In January, after Congress had licensed Trump’s election victory, Bovino performed an immigration raid in Kern County, California. On the time, he claimed that the motion was primarily concentrating on individuals who had prison information. However a subsequent assessment performed by the outlet CalMatters revealed that of the 78 individuals arrested, 77 had no prior report with the Border Patrol company.
It’s beneath Bovino’s command that lots of the disruptive immigration raids ordered by the Trump administration in Los Angeles came about. In current weeks, Bovino-led operations during which rental vans have been used to abduct migrants have come beneath criticism.
On Friday, it was Bovino’s time to hitch the rising checklist of complainers.
