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Border czar Tom Homan connected Sunday warned California officials could look apprehension and prosecution if they "cross the line" pursuing President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops successful Los Angeles to quell ongoing migration protests.
Trump ordered astatine slightest 2,000 National Guard members to assistance Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents aft 2 days of clashes with demonstrators, contempt authorities and metropolis leaders saying they had not asked for assistance.
Homan said Trump's bid was not lone to support instrumentality enforcement officers but besides to "protect this community."
"The rhetoric is truthful precocious against ICE officers successful this metropolis that it's a substance of clip earlier idiosyncratic gets earnestly hurt," Homan told NBC News's Jacob Soboroff successful an interrogation slated for broadcast Sunday night. "We've got assistance coming, and we're going to bash our job, and we're going to proceed doing that job."
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass, some Democrats, person criticized Trump's determination to telephone successful the National Guard, informing it lone risks escalating tensions. Both besides pointed retired connected Sunday that Trump posted astir the National Guard's "great job" earlier immoderate troops had arrived successful LA.
When Soboroff asked if Homan's past threats to apprehension anyone who stood successful the mode of Trump's enforcement operations were directed astatine Newsom and Bass, Homan clarified helium would "say that astir anybody."
"It's a felony to knowingly conceal and harbor an amerciable alien," Homan said. "It's a felony to impede instrumentality enforcement from doing their job."
Homan said helium didn't deliberation Bass had "crossed the enactment yet," but helium added "we volition inquire DOJ to prosecute" if needed, referring to the Department of Justice.
"What we're saying is we're not going to tolerate radical attacking our officers," helium added.
On Sunday morning, Newsom, successful a station connected the societal level X, claimed the national authorities is "taking implicit the California National Guard" due to the fact that "they privation a spectacle."
"Don't springiness them one. Never usage violence. Speak retired peacefully," helium added.
In the NBC News interview, Homan bashed Newsom's comments and called him "an embarrassment for the state."
"I person perfectly nary respect for this governor," Homan said. "Criminal aliens are walking successful this authorities each time due to the fact that of his authorities policy. I don't attraction what the politician thinks of me. I'm not moving a popularity contest."
