Friends -
Lost in the theatrical displays of toughness from an increasingly unhinged president are some of the stories of his indiscriminate raids.
I am not talking about violent criminals targeted by ICE. We have cooperated with ICE when it comes to targeting criminals.
I’m talking about people like the 12-year old boy I met in Oxnard, California, who was weeping - crying - because his mother and father were both detained ... disappeared. He has no brothers, sisters or family. His parents have worked more than two decades in the same fields. No criminal records. Disappeared. Gone.
I am talking about the single mother swept off the streets at 5:45 AM -- again, no criminal record -- agents driving her around, interrogating her for hours until she finally convinced them to let her call her three children.
Watch. Listen to these stories. Do not click away.
And here is the kicker. Trump's politicization of our military is pulling these brave Americans off of critical missions in California -- not for public safety, but only to further his agenda.
I'm talking about how five of California’s 14 National Guard fire crews are understaffed ... including crews that "rake the forest" as Trump likes to say ... all because Trump deployed them for a political stunt in LA.
I'm talking about the National Guard I placed at the border to stop fentanyl smuggling sent to LA.
What Trump is doing is not just illegal -- it's also dangerous.
Gavin Newsom