Sacramento’s acting U.S. attorney said she was fired after an immigrant attack on the head of the Border Patrol in California, whose agents were not allowed to arrest people in the Central Valley for no possible reason.
Michele Beckwith is a career prosecutor, earlier this year New York Times She was released after warning him of the Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, the El Centro division, warned him of the case, and the court prohibited him from conducting indistinguishable immigration raids in Sacramento.
Beckvis did not respond to a request for comment from the Los Angeles Times, but Tell the New York Times “We have to stand up and stick to the law.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento declined to comment. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment Friday night.
Bovino has hosted a series of raids in Los Angeles since June, and agents have spent weeks Workers who pursue Latino Outside home warehouses, car washes, bus stops and other areas. Agents often wear masks and use unmarked vehicles.
But the eastern California region does not allow such an indistinguishable tactic after the ACLU and United Farm workers filed a lawsuit against the Border Patrol earlier this year and won the ban.
Suit follows January action in Kern County Called the “return to the sender’s action,” where agents flock to Home Depot and Latino markets, as well as other areas where workers often appear. In April, a federal district court judge ruled that the Border Patrol may have violated the constitutional protection of unreasonable searches and seizures.
As Beckwith described to the New York Times reporter, she received a call from Bovino on July 14, saying he brought agents to Sacramento.
She said she told him that the ban proposed after the Kern County raid meant he could not abuse people in the eastern region. The next day, she wrote him an email, in The New York Times, she stressed the need to “comply with court orders and the constitution.”
Shortly thereafter, her work phone and her work computer stopped working. Before 5 p.m., she received an email informing her that her work was immediately terminated.
This is her 15-year career with the Justice Department, where she served as the office’s criminal department head, first assistant, and sued the Aryan Brotherhood, suspected of terrorists and fentanyl traffickers.
Two days later, on July 17, Bovino and his agent moved into Sacramento and raided a home depot south of the city.
On the same day, Bovino said in an interview with Fox News that the raid was targeted and based on intelligence. “Everything we do is targeted,” he said. “We do have the intelligence, the goal we are interested in this Home Depot and other targeted law enforcement packages in and around the Sacramento area.”
He also said his actions would not slow down. “There is no sanctuary anywhere,” he said. “We stay here. We won’t go anywhere. We will influence this mission and secure the motherland. ”
Beckwith is one of many top prosecutors who are pushing the Trump administration to actively enforce its policies, including investigating people who were once the president’s political targets, who were fired or fired.
In March, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles Fired He sued Washington officials for all charges against him after a fast food supervisor’s attorney, according to multiple sources.
In July, Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was fired by the Trump administration. According to the New York Times.
Just last week, a Virginia lawyer was kicked out after confirming there was not enough evidence to sue James B. Comey. New prosecutor this week Win a grand jury prosecution Oppose Comey’s false statements and one count of obstructing Congress lawsuits.
