By Bethany Blankley (The Middle Sq.)
A California sheriff who has lengthy been battling cartel and transnational crime in his county is pushing again in opposition to the Kamala Harris marketing campaign after it used his picture in a newly launched political advert.
Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux and different legislation 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 legal professional common.
When studying of their pictures getting used within the video, he stated, “We don’t help Kamala Harris. She has a historical past of not supporting legislation enforcement.”
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The brand new television ad, paid for by Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign, states, “Kamala Harris has spent a long time preventing violent crimes. As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling weapons and medicines throughout the border.”
As vp, the advert says “she backed the hardest border management invoice in a long time,” referring to a U.S. Senate bill that went nowhere underneath Democratic management. Senate Democrats refused to think about what Republicans argue is the strongest border invoice in a long time, which the Home handed.
“And as president, she is going to rent 1000’s extra border brokers and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. Fixing the border is hard, so is Kamala Harris,” the advert says.
Early in his time period, President Joe Biden identify Harris his “border czar,” however each have confronted widespread criticism for the thousands and thousands 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 yr, Boudreaux stated gang and cartel violence was a results of California’s “soft-on-crime method,” The Middle Sq. reported.
Boudreaux, who not too long ago ran for Congress and misplaced in a particular election, ran a marketing campaign advert that includes former President Donald Trump supporting legislation 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 picture is getting used with out his permission, and he does NOT endorse Harris for President or every other political workplace.”
He advised Fox Information that Harris’ advert was “deceiving to say the least” as a result of after legislation enforcement officers labored for years investigating a multinational drug trafficking group operation with ties to Mexican cartels and jail gangs, Harris “confirmed up for a sound chunk. She didn’t shake anybody’s fingers and he or she rapidly left the briefing room.”
The advert depicting him and his legislation enforcement counterparts “as standing alongside Kamala Harris was really disheartening. We don’t help Kamala Harris. She has a historical past of not supporting legislation enforcement,” he stated. “I’m in search of somebody who’s going to help felony justice and legislation enforcement. That’s finest represented by Donald Trump and never Kamala Harris.”
In one other statement, he stated that as legal professional common, Harris “undercut efforts by California legislation enforcement officers to cease criminals from flooding our state with weapons and medicines throughout the border. She repeatedly defunded and shuttered process forces designed to guard our residents, leaving the Valley and our state susceptible. Kamala’s unhappy try to color herself as powerful on the border by implying my help – and the help of neighbor and legislation enforcement leaders – is pathetic. A politician crowding the rostrum at a press convention clearly hasn’t solved our border disaster. Neither has Kamala Harris.”
With the success of Texas’ border safety mission, Operation Lone Star, pushing transnational felony exercise west, California has change into “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 diminished the variety of unlawful border crossers to lower than these underneath the Trump administration. Information reported by their administration tells a special story, with information being damaged each month and yr, The Middle Sq. reported.
Amongst them embrace the California Nationwide Guard alone in a single yr seizing sufficient fentanyl to kill the complete 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 greatest number of Chinese language nationals have illegally entered the nation underneath Biden-Harris, with the bulk apprehended in California. They included those that broke into U.S. army bases, were arrested months later in Texas for cash laundering, or arrange cartel-linked money 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. solely reported.
Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
