Overview

• Border Patrol agents in tactical gear gathered outside the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo during Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Los Angeles press conference and took at least one person into custody.
• Newsom condemned the operation as a “pretty sick and pathetic” top-down show of force ordered by President Trump to intimidate state officials.
• Border Patrol Sector Commander Gregory Bovino defended the deployment as a lawful effort to remove individuals with violent criminal convictions.
• Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and state Sen. María Elena Durazo denounced the presence as unacceptable political theater that threatens democratic processes.
• The incident deepens an ongoing fight over federal immigration enforcement in California and overlaps with Newsom’s plan to seek a mid-cycle, partisan redistricting ballot measure.