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“The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers,” Gov. Gavin Newsom explained in a June 7 statement.

“That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions. LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice. We are in close coordination with the city and county, and there is currently no unmet need. The Guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery. This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.”

Californians might have noticed something missing from the governor’s statement.

Leading up to Friday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested more than 100 people illegally present in the United States. Those arrested include Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez of the Philippines, whose criminal history includes burglary and intent to commit rape. Ecuadorian national Jose Gregorio Medranda Ortiz was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for drug trafficking. Mexican national Armando Ordaz is gang member sentenced for sexual battery.

Previously deported Mexican Victor Mendoza-Aguilar is a gang member guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. The criminal histories of Mexican nationals Delfino Aguilar-Martinez, Alan Hernandez-Morales, and Lionel Sanchez-Laguna include assault, discharging firearms in a home, and so forth.

After the arrests, mobs stormed a federal detention facility in downtown Los Angeles. According to the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS), more than 1,000 rioters surrounded the building and assaulted ICE officers, whose “family members have been doxed and targeted as well.” Gov. Newsom didn’t see it that way.

“Continued chaotic federal sweeps, across California, to meet an arbitrary arrest quota are as reckless as they are cruel,” said the governor in a June 6 statement. “Donald Trump’s chaos is eroding trust, tearing families apart, and undermining the workers and industries that power America’s economy.” On Sunday morning, Newsom’s communication’s director Izzy Gordon compared the riots to “what happens when the [Philadelphia] Eagles win a playoff game.”

After two days of rioting, with black-clad thugs attacking officers and torching cars, Trump sent in the guard. For Gov. Newsom, the federal government was “purposely inflammatory,” not the mob torching cars. For legal immigrants and legitimate citizens, this comes as no surprise.

California is a sanctuary state that offers protection to illegal aliens, even the violent criminals among them. In late 2108, a Mexican illegal gunned down Newman, California,  police officer Ronil “Ron” Singh, a legal immigrant from Fiji who came to the United States to become a police officer. Governor-elect Newsom was a no-show at Singh’s funeral and failed to condemn the murder even as “gun violence.”

One of Gov. Newsom’s first acts was to reprieve 737 convicted murderers on California’s death row. These were the worst of the worst, including Luis Bracamontes, the Mexican national who murdered police officers Danny Oliver and Michael Davis in Sacramento in 2014. In California, the protection of criminal illegals is all about politics.

When illegal aliens get their driver’s license, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles registers them to vote. So they serve as an imported electorate for Democrats, who deploy politiqueros to keep them in line with bribes and threats.  Democrats won’t say how many illegals voted, but it is possible to guess.

In the 2018 election for governor, Gavin Newsom got 61.9 percent of the vote. In the 2021 recall, he got 61.9 percent of the vote. If anyone thought illegal votes carried the day, it would be hard to blame them.

This is what Democrats want on a national scale, an imported electorate insuring permanent one-party rule. So no surprise that Newsom, who wants to be president, looks the other way and blames Trump. People across the nation might compare the riots of 1992.

Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley quickly declared a state of emergency and Gov. Pete Wilson mobilized some 6,000 National Guardsmen. President George Bush deployed 3000-4000 Army troops and US Marines, along with 1000 riot-trained federal troops to restore order. Of the more than 16,000 arrests, some 1,240 were of “undocumented” immigrants, who participated in looting. Many of the “riot illegals” were deported.

In 2025, as ICE moves to deport criminal illegals, 1,000 rioters storm a federal building, torch cars, and attack federal officers. Trump sends in the National Guard and Gov. Gavin Newsom blames the president for escalating tensions. The DHS was not the only federal agency to push back.

“This is on you governor,” Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, posted on X. “It is a shame that California openly defies federal law and sides with illegal aliens, including hardened criminals, against its own citizens.”

As National Guard troops moved in on Sunday, protesters headed for LA city hall. Mayor Karen Bass, missing in action while much of LA burned to the ground, is on record stating that federal immigration enforcement actions “sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city.”