VP Vance says law enforcement have told him Governor Newsom is endangering their lives.
**Reporter:** “Do you say that Gavin Newsom is endangering law enforcement here in California, and what should he be doing if he was protecting them?”
**VP Vance:** “Look, I would absolutely say that Gavin Newsom is endangering law enforcement. The law enforcement officials themselves tell me as much. That when they go out—let’s say you have a Border Patrol official who needs to go out and arrest somebody, maybe a violent criminal who’s also an illegal alien—when that Border Patrol agent goes out to do their job, they said within fifteen minutes of them trying to do their job, they have protesters, sometimes violent protesters, who are in their face obstructing them, preventing them from doing their job, and endangering their lives. Why do they have that? Because those people have been egged on by local officials. Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, by treating the city as a sanctuary city, have basically said that it is open season on federal law enforcement. They have treated Border Patrol and Border Enforcement as somehow an illegitimate force instead of what they are, which is the American people’s law enforcement trying to enforce the American people’s laws. So when Gavin Newsom encourages violence and rioting, when he encourages people to get in the face of our great Border Patrol officers, he is absolutely endangering the lives of federal enforcement. He’s absolutely endangering the lives of mothers and daughters and fathers and sons who have been sent here to do a simple thing: enforce the law. And thank God they’re willing to do it despite the fact that the local leadership of this community has made it harder on them and has, in fact, endangered their lives as they go about to do their important work.”