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California elected officials say that armed border patrol agents showed up outside Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s event on redistricting in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles on Thursday, in an attempt to intimidate critics of the Trump administration.

Border Patrol was “directed, clearly by the White House, as a political operation to make a point,” Newsom said during an interview following the event, warning that Trump is trying to dismantle democracy in the United States.

“What we saw just a moment ago with Border Patrol is a preview of things to come at voting booths and polling places all across this country,” Newsom said, adding, “there’s a reason members of the Trump team sent me a Trump 2028 hat with a note because they’re not screwing around and we can’t screw around either.”

Among establishment Democrats, Newsom has emerged as one of the fiercest critics of the Trump administration. However, in June he signed a budget that, starting in January, bars new enrollment of undocumented immigrants in the state’s Medicaid........

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