Los Angeles – Governor of California. Gavin Newsom rejected arrest threats by Trump administration officials, remaining challenging while supervising clashes between law agents and protesters in response to immigration raids in Los Angeles, while handling a continuous power struggle with the federal government.
Trump’s “border tsar”, Tom Homan, warned of immigration operations and the presence of federal personnel would continue in the city despite the criticism of democratic leaders who have warned that they could further increase protests. He threatened the arrest for anyone who obstructs the effort to apply immigration, including Newsom and the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, although he acknowledged that neither of them had “crossed the line.”
“I will say about anyone,” said Homan. “You cross that line, it is a serious crime to host and hide an illegal foreigner knowing. It is a serious crime to prevent the police doing their job.”
In an interview for MSNBC with Jacob Soboroff by NBC News, Newsom called Homin’s Bluff, urging him to “simply end up” and move on with the arrest.
“It’s a hard guy. Why don’t you do that? You know where to find me,” said Newsom. “That type of Blointing is exhausting. So, Tom, arrest. Let’s go.”
Meanwhile, Bass dismissed Homin’s warning as unnecessary, emphasizing Sunday that, although he opposed the decision to deploy National Guard troops, he has no interest in fighting with the federal government.
“He had absolutely no reason to say that,” Bass said. “I talked to him last night. He understands that I am the mayor of the city; the last thing in the world I am going to do is enter a fight with the federal government. So that made no sense. There was no reason for that comment.”
Trump doubled on homan’s warning Sunday, telling journalists that “officials who get in the way of law and order” will face the judges. “
But Newsom said Sunday that Trump had not expressed any concern about his ability to handle the growing protest in Los Angeles or the possibility of federalizing the National Guard troops during a phone call after the protests began on Friday.
“We talked for almost 20 minutes, and just, this problem never emerged,” said Newsom. “We had a very decent conversation.”
Newsom and Bass have intensely criticized Trump’s decision to authorize the deployment of at least 2,000 national guard troops in response to protests, arguing that they would only inflame tensions in the city already increased by large -scale immigration operations.
In a letter to the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Newsom requested that Trump terminate his federal order to the troops in the Los Angeles County “and return them to my command.”
“In dynamic and fluid situations such as Los Angeles, state and local authorities are the most appropriate to evaluate the need for resources and safeguard life and property,” said Newsom in the letter.
The threats of the administration to arrest the elected officials have been a distinctive seal of Trump’s second mandate, particularly after the high profile arrest of the mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, outside an ice detention center in New Jersey. The charges were withdrawn, although the Department of Justice accused another elected official of Baraka, the Lamonica Mciver Democratic representative, of two positions of assisting, resisting and preventing the officials responsible for enforcing the law in relation to the incident.
