Newsom was announcing California’s response to President Trump’s efforts to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives

Mayor Karen Bass asks why border patrol ‘thumbed their nose’ at the governor’s event

“WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED,” Newsom’s office posts on X

As Gov. Gavin Newsom prepared to announce that he would take on President Trump’s redistricting plans on behalf of California, scores of federal immigration agents massed outside the venue Thursday.

Newsom was set to speak at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles, when Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino, who has been leading the immigration operations in California, arrived in Little Tokyo, flanked by agents in helmets, camouflage, masks and holding guns.

“We’re here making Los Angeles a safer

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