'Arrest me': California's governor unfazed by threats of arrest from Trump administration official

LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed backmost against threats of apprehension by Trump medication officials, remaining defiant arsenic helium oversees clashes betwixt instrumentality enforcement agents and protesters successful effect to migration raids crossed Los Angeles portion besides managing an ongoing powerfulness conflict with the national government.

Trump’s "border czar," Tom Homan, warned Saturday that migration operations and the beingness of national unit would proceed successful the metropolis contempt disapproval from Democratic leaders who've warned it could further escalate protests. He threatened apprehension for anyone who obstructs the migration enforcement effort, including Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — though helium acknowledged that neither yet had "crossed the line."

“I’ll accidental astir anybody,” Homan said. “You transverse that line, it’s a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an amerciable alien. It’s a felony to impede instrumentality enforcement doing their job.”

In an interrogation for MSNBC with NBC News’ Jacob Soboroff, Newsom called Homan's bluff, urging him to "just get it implicit with" and determination up with the arrest.

“He’s a pugnacious guy. Why doesn’t helium bash that? He knows wherever to find me,” Newsom said. “That benignant of bloviating is exhausting. So, Tom, apprehension me. Let's go."

Bass, meanwhile, dismissed Homan’s informing arsenic unnecessary, emphasizing Sunday that portion she opposed the determination to deploy National Guard troops, she has nary involvement successful brawling with the national government.

“He had perfectly positively nary crushed to adjacent accidental that,” Bass said. “I spoke to him past night. He understands that I americium the politician of the city; the past happening successful the satellite I’m going to bash is get into a brawl with the national government. So that conscionable made nary sense. There was nary crushed for that comment.”

Trump doubled down connected Homan's informing Sunday, telling reporters that “officials who basal successful the mode of instrumentality and order" volition "face judges."

But Newsom said Sunday that Trump hadn't expressed immoderate interest astir his quality to negociate the increasing protestation successful Los Angeles oregon the imaginable of federalizing National Guard troops during a telephone telephone aft protests started Friday.

"We talked for astir 20 minutes, and helium hardly — this contented ne'er came up," Newsom said. "We had a precise decent conversation."

Newsom and Bass person intensely criticized Trump's determination to authorize the deployment of astatine slightest 2,000 National Guard troops successful effect to the protests, arguing they would lone inflame tensions successful the metropolis already heightened by the large-scale migration operations.

In a missive to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Newsom requested that Trump rescind his bid federalizing the troops successful Los Angeles County "and instrumentality them to my command."

"In dynamic and fluid situations specified arsenic the 1 successful Los Angeles, State and section authorities are the astir due ones to measure the request for resources and safeguard beingness and property," Newsom said successful the letter.

Threats by the medication to apprehension elected officials person been a hallmark of Trump's 2nd term, peculiarly aft the high-profile apprehension of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka extracurricular an ICE detention installation successful New Jersey. The charges were dropped, though the Justice Department charged different elected official with Baraka, Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver, with 2 counts of assaulting, resisting and impeding instrumentality enforcement officials successful transportation with the incident.