By Bethany Blankley (The Middle Sq.)
A California sheriff who has lengthy been battling cartel and transnational crime in his county is pushing again towards the Kamala Harris marketing campaign after it used his picture in a newly launched political advert.
Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux and different regulation enforcement officers had been depicted in a brand new Harris marketing campaign advert that included video from a decade-old occasion when she was the California lawyer basic.
When studying of their photographs getting used within the video, he stated, “We do not support Kamala Harris. She has a history of not supporting law enforcement.”
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The brand new tv advert, paid for by Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign, states, “Kamala Harris has spent decades fighting violent crimes. As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs across the border.”
As vp, the advert says “she backed the toughest border control bill in decades,” referring to a U.S. Senate invoice that went nowhere beneath Democratic management. Senate Democrats refused to contemplate what Republicans argue is the strongest border invoice in a long time, which the Home handed.
“And as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. Fixing the border is tough, so is Kamala Harris,” the advert says.
Early in his time period, President Joe Biden title Harris his “border czar,” however each have confronted widespread criticism for the tens of millions of international nationwide who’ve illegally crossed the border since 2021.
Boudreaux, who has served for greater than 37 years within the sheriff’s workplace and is president of the California State Sheriff’s Affiliation, has overtly criticized the insurance policies of Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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After a mom and her 10-month-old child had been amongst six killed in an “execution-style,” “cartel-style” homicide spree final 12 months, Boudreaux stated gang and cartel violence was a results of California’s “soft-on-crime approach,” The Middle Sq. reported.
Boudreaux, who lately ran for Congress and misplaced in a particular election, ran a marketing campaign advert that includes former President Donald Trump supporting regulation enforcement. He additionally blasted Harris on marketing campaign social media platforms. In a single assertion, he stated he needed “to make it abundantly clear that his image is being used without his permission, and he does NOT endorse Harris for President or any other political office.”
He informed Fox Information that Harris’ advert was “deceiving to say the least” as a result of after regulation enforcement officers labored for years investigating a multinational drug trafficking group operation with ties to Mexican cartels and jail gangs, Harris “showed up for a sound bite. She didn’t shake anyone’s hands and she quickly left the briefing room.”
The advert depicting him and his regulation enforcement counterparts “as standing alongside Kamala Harris was truly disheartening. We do not support Kamala Harris. She has a history of not supporting law enforcement,” he stated. “I’m looking for someone who’s going to support criminal justice and law enforcement. That is best represented by Donald Trump and not Kamala Harris.”
In one other assertion, he stated that as lawyer basic, Harris “undercut efforts by California law enforcement officials to stop criminals from flooding our state with guns and drugs across the border. She repeatedly defunded and shuttered task forces designed to protect our residents, leaving the Valley and our state vulnerable. Kamala’s sad attempt to paint herself as tough on the border by implying my support – and the support of neighbor and law enforcement leaders – is pathetic. A politician crowding the podium at a press conference clearly hasn’t solved our border crisis. Neither has Kamala Harris.”
With the success of Texas’ border safety mission, Operation Lone Star, pushing transnational legal exercise west, California has turn out to be “the new epicenter” of the border disaster, The Middle Sq. reported.
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That is after Biden and Harris claimed for 3 years there was no border disaster. Within the months main as much as the election, they claimed their efforts decreased the variety of unlawful border crossers to lower than these beneath the Trump administration. Knowledge reported by their administration tells a unique story, with information being damaged each month and 12 months, The Middle Sq. reported.
Amongst them embrace the California Nationwide Guard alone in a single 12 months seizing sufficient fentanyl to kill all the world inhabitants twice over and Border Patrol brokers testifying earlier than Congress to elevated safety threats in California due to Biden-Harris insurance policies.
The best quantity of Chinese language nationals have illegally entered the nation beneath Biden-Harris, with the bulk apprehended in California. They included those that broke into U.S. army bases, had been arrested months later in Texas for cash laundering, or arrange cartel-linked cash laundering operations in California.
Greater than 500,000 international nationals had been apprehended illegally getting into California or reported evading seize in fiscal 2023, up from over 300,000 in fiscal 2022, the best numbers in recorded historical past, The Middle Sq. completely reported.
Syndicated with permission from The Middle Sq..
