Hey Folks... Is This What You Voted For?

This is the middle finger salute to the people of California.

This is an insult. 

This is racist, and is what a tyrant does.

Border Patrol agents stage show of force at Newsom’s ‘big beautiful press conference’

The LA Times

By Connor Sheets, Brittny Mejia and Julia Wick

Aug. 14, 2025

• 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 Gregory Bovino, who has been leading the immigration operations in California, arrived in Little Tokyo, flanked by agents in helmets, camouflage, masks and holding guns.

NBC 4 Los Angeles reported...

"Right outside, at this exact moment, dozens and dozens of ice agents," Newsom said. "Donald Trump, you think it’s coincidental? Donald Trump’s minions, (border czar) Tom Homan, decided this was a location they’d advance.

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"There is no way this was a coincidence," Mayor Karen Bass said. "There was no reason in the world for them to come here. This is a complete provocation. This has nothing to do with safety. This is the exact opposite of keeping our city safe."

When asked about it the coincident Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino arrogantly replied...

Bovino was asked whether the location of the Border Patrol presence was a coincidence.

"Breaking the law is not coincidental," Bovino said. "Breaking the law is breaking the law."

Yeah but... he is right in one respect, "Breaking the law is not coincidental," but enforcing it right in front of the press conference is also not a coincidence!

• “It is not a coincidence that they chose this moment and this place. It’s a statement. A political one.” — Governor Gavin Newsom
• “This was a provocation — a show of force designed to intimidate. There is no chance this was accidental.” — LA Mayor Karen Bass

I also want to point out that this is not the half of it... also the location was important and it sends a message. Many of the people inside that museum were once victims that were forced into internment camps during World War II, simply because of their ancestry. For nearly five years, they were incarcerated under Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, citing vague “national security concerns.”

Now, once again, we see “national security” being invoked, but this time to justify the federal invasion of the District of Columbia.

And today, decades later, they watch as another president signs executive orders, while armed, masked men stand outside that same museum—the very place built to ensure America never forgets what was done to them.

That order cost them everything. Their homes, businesses, and property were confiscated. Their dignity erased. The psychological scars never fully healed.

And now, once again, they see men in uniforms rounding up the so-called “undesirables.”

What must they be thinking when they see it happening once again?

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