Illegal immigrant faces charges for spitting on ICE officer in Los Angeles: 'OK, you got me'

"Despite the Los Angeles riots, ICE instrumentality enforcement officers arrested Omar Pulido-Bastida. This transgression amerciable alien has been convicted of robbery and has arrests for execution and assault," Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said successful an exclusive connection to Fox News Digital astir the Mexican national.

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Omar Pulido Bastida, 41, is facing a national battle complaint for allegedly spitting connected an ICE cause portion they were trying to apprehension him. (Department of Homeland Security)

"This is the benignant of transgression amerciable alien that rioters are warring to protect. How overmuch longer volition Governor Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass proceed to prioritize these transgression amerciable aliens implicit their ain citizens? Secretary Noem has a connection to the LA rioters: you volition not halt america oregon dilatory america down. ICE volition proceed to enforce the instrumentality and apprehension transgression amerciable aliens," McLaughlin continued.

Pulido Bastida resides successful South Central Los Angeles, and helium could look 8 years down bars if convicted of assault.

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"This suspect recovered retired the hard way: When you spit, we deed – with a felony charge," U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said successful a connection past week. "Law enforcement officers hazard their lives and information to uphold the law. To dainty them with the disrespect, similar this suspect did, mocks our large federation and specified behaviour volition beryllium punished accordingly."

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, left, and White House borderline czar Tom Homan talk with reporters astatine the White House connected Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Department of Justice alleges the antheral archetypal insulted an ICE serviceman from his balcony earlier coming down and spitting connected an cause done a gate, saying conscionable earlier that, "No, get retired of here. I cognize my rights. I’m calling my lawyer." After that, ICE past "forced entry" into his location and arrested the man, who was hiding and said, "OK, you got me," earlier his arrest, the quality merchandise added.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Newsom's office. Bass's bureau pointed Fox News Digital to a punctuation from her property league past week.

"These aren't the criminals the medication is allegedly targeting," Bass said. "These are mothers and fathers, edifice workers, seamstresses, location attraction workers, mundane Angelenos trying to marque a living. We've heard stories of unmarked national vans parked adjacent LAUSD schoolhouse graduations, a U.S. national 9 months large who was hospitalized aft being detained by national agents, and an apparel concern successful downtown L.A. raided, wherever galore Korean and Latino workers enactment agelong hours to enactment their families."

The apprehension announcement comes aft anti-ICE protests and riots broke retired successful Los Angeles past week arsenic the bureau did sweeps passim the region. On Sunday night, President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social that helium wanted to spot arrests ramped up further to "achieve the precise important extremity of delivering the azygous largest Mass Deportation Program successful History."

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President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The president specifically mentioned that operations successful Los Angeles, Chicago and New York could beryllium increased.

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"His program is clear: Incite unit and chaos successful bluish states, person an excuse to militarize our cities, demonize his opponents, support breaking the instrumentality and consolidate power. It’s amerciable and we volition not fto it stand," Newsom posted to X successful nonstop effect to Trump’s post.