On Thursday, the agents of the border patrol made a descent into a house depot and other places in Sacramento in what seemed to be a strongly orchestrated operation intended to send a message that the Trump administration would not back down on the application of immigration, despite legal blockages.
While the raids took place miles from the State Capitol, Greg Binvino, the head of the US border in the El Centro sector who led operations in Southern California, recorded a video in front of the state shortly after.
“There is nothing like a sanctuary city. There is nothing like a state of the sanctuary,” published Bovino on X, in a video produced with the State Capitol building and the motorway panels reading Sacramento. “This is how and why we secure the homeland for my and PA America. We have a back, whether in Sacramento or on a national scale, we are here and we are nowhere.”
Governor’s office Gavin Newsom immediately castigated the sweeping.
“The border patrol should do its job – on the border – instead of continuing its illegal racial profiling tirade and illegal arrests,” said Diana Crofts -Pelayo, Newsom spokesperson.
Wednesday, Newsom had Hunted against the repression of Trump immigration during press conference In a Christian Church Memorial Downey, where the agents invaded and arrested a patron in June. The parishioners of the church remain shaken and a girl he met transported his passport.
“She is legally here. She carries her passport,” he said. “It’s Trump America, 2025.”
On Friday, the application of the Sacramento law intervened after a federal judge of Los Angeles prevented the agents from using racial profiling to carry out arrests without a mandate that have changed hundreds of lives in immigrant communities in southern California. And it took place in an area which, with the central valley and a large strip of Northern California, is under a similar preliminary injunction resulting from illegal raids launched by Bovino in January, targeting agricultural workers and workers in County of Kern.
The Ministry of Internal Security said that 11 undocumented immigrants had been arrested during the operation, notably Javier Dimas-Alcantara, who, according to them, is “a dangerous series drug addict” which “was sentenced to prison 67 times”.
“You would not want this man to be your neighbor,” said assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “And yet, politicians like Gavin Newsom defend criminals who terrorize the American communities and demonize the police who defend these same communities.”
Bovino, which was a key figure of the raids across southern California and is appointed in both proceedings, said on X The operations took place Thursday in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Another individual, he said, was arrested for suspicion of embarrassment and / or federal assault.
Based on videos published Thursday, this man seems to be Jose Castillo Jr., who was on the way to work as a CVC repairer in the Sacramento region when he stopped at the renovation store. His wife, Andrea Castillo, said that he was a hard -working family who “would not be triggered”.
His video of almost three minutes from Castillo Jr. during the arrest circulated on social networks.
In the video, an agent can be seen by hand in Andrea by pointing a spray.
“Turn off the F -,” he says.
Her husband, a 31-year-old American citizen, appears in the background with several other agents on the ground. She runs with the agents to him.
“He’s an American citizen!” She cried again and again.
The agents pinned him to the ground and he was cut on his face and bleeding, she said. She said she could hear her say, “I can’t breathe.”
The scene looked like Other raids It took place in Los Angeles in June.
“His brother is an active American sailor. He serves the country and looks at what they are doing in this country for him, ”she said.
Neither the Ministry of Internal Security, nor customs and the protection of American borders responded to requests for comments on Castillo. The border patrol told Fox News that she had watched locations in Sacramento and had directed license plates for two days before performing the arrests. Some plates have returned as an illegally detainee of deported immigrants to the country.
Giselle Garcia, member of Norcal Resist, a voluntary mutual aid group who responded to the raids, said that she was skeptical about the accusations.
“We have a long model of false allegations made by ICE and CBP that it is immigrants or witnesses who encourage violence, who later prove to be false,” she said.
Elizabeth Strateter, National Vice-President of United Agricultural Workers, said that his office was flooded with calls for Home Depot. The group is one of several complainants who brought a complaint against the border patrol for the raids in the county of Kern in January. In April, a federal judge noted that the agency engaged in a “model and a practice” to have unconstitutionally people without reasonable suspicion that they are here illegally and ordered them to stop.
Strateter said that she had seen a video on Thursday morning in which she described two major federal knee agents on a little woman “who is facing down, while she fights”.
“There is no reason for this kind of brutality,” she said. “It is simply brutalized a community … It’s disgusting.”
She said they worked to determine if Border Patrol violated the terms of the judge’s ordinance.
The member of the City Council of Sacramento, Maple, whose district slings the Home Depot, said that it was shocked to learn the raid, noting that it “had never heard of the border patrol in Sacramento” – which is more than 480 miles from the Mexican border.
Maple said the police had not been informed of operations.
“We are far enough inside the land. We are not close to the border of Mexico or Canada, “she said. “For me, it was a shock and a concern for the way these people who are supposed to protect our borders find themselves ostensibly in a place like Sacramento?”
