Bethany Blankley (The Center Square)
A California sheriff who has spent years battling drug cartels and international crime in his county is fighting back against the use of his image in a new political ad by the Kamala Harris campaign.
Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreau and other law enforcement officers appear in a new campaign ad that includes footage of an incident from a decade ago, when Harris served as California’s attorney general.
After learning their image was used in the video, he said, “We do not support Kamala Harris. She has a history of not supporting law enforcement.”
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new Television AdvertisingThe document, funded by Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, states, “Kamala Harris has fought violent crime for decades. As a border state prosecutor, she has taken on drug cartels and jailed gang members who smuggled weapons and drugs across the border.”
As vice president, the ad states, “she supported the toughest border control bill in decades.” U.S. Senate Bill No progress was made under Democratic control, with Senate Democrats refusing to consider a House-passed bill that Republicans called the strongest border bill in decades.
“And as president, she will hire thousands more Border Patrol agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. Fixing the border is hard, but so is Kamala Harris,” the ad states.
President Joe Biden called Harris “the best in the business” early in his term.Border Emperor” but both countries have faced widespread criticism over millions of foreigners who have crossed their borders illegally since 2021.
Boudreau, who has worked in the sheriff’s office for more than 37 years and is president of the California Sheriffs’ Association, has been an outspoken critic of the policies of Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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After six people, including a mother and her 10-month-old baby, were killed in an “execution-style” and “cartel-style” murder last year, Boudreau said gang and cartel violence was the result of California’s “soft attitude toward crime,” The Center Square reported. Reported.
Boudreau, who recently ran for Congress but lost in a special election, ran campaign ads that cited former President Donald Trump’s support for law enforcement. He also slammed Harris on his campaign’s social media platforms. In a statement, he said: “I want to be clear that my image has been used without my permission. I am not endorsing Ms. Harris for President or any other public office.”
He told Fox News that Harris’ ad was “deceptive, to say the least,” because after law enforcement officials spent years investigating a transnational drug trafficking organization with ties to Mexican drug cartels and prison gangs, Harris “showed up to make audio comments, didn’t shake hands with anyone and quickly exited the briefing room.”
He said the ad, which portrayed him and his colleagues in law enforcement “standing side by side with Kamala Harris,” was “really disappointing. We are not supporting Kamala Harris. She has a history of not supporting law enforcement,” and “I want someone who supports criminal justice and law enforcement, and no one better represents that than Donald Trump, not Kamala Harris.”
Another statementThe president said Attorney General Harris “has hindered California law enforcement’s efforts to stop criminals from crossing the border and bringing guns and drugs into our state. She has repeatedly defunded and shut down task forces meant to protect our residents, leaving our Valley and our state vulnerable. Kamala’s pathetic attempt to portray herself as tough on the border by implying the support of me, my neighbors and law enforcement leaders is pathetic. It’s clear that the politicians who crowd the podium at press conferences aren’t solving the border crisis, and neither is Kamala Harris.”
The success of Texas’ border patrol mission, “Operation Lone Star,” which pushed cross-border criminal activity westward led California to “A new epicenter“Center Square” of the Border Crisis Reported.
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This comes after Biden and Harris claimed for three years that there was no border crisis. In the months leading up to the election, they claimed that their efforts had resulted in fewer illegal border crossings than under Trump. The data reported by their administration tells a different story, with records being broken every month, every year. The Center Square Reported.
That includes the California National Guard alone in one year. Seizure Border Patrol agents and fentanyl in quantities that could kill twice the world’s population Give Witness They complained to Congress that the Biden-Harris agenda increases security threats in California.
of Maximum number Under the Biden-Harris administration, 70% of Chinese nationals entered the country illegally, most of them arrested in California, including some who infiltrated U.S. military bases. Arrested A few months later, a money laundering or cartel-related investigation was filed in Texas. Money laundering activities In California.
In fiscal year 2023, more than 500,000 foreign nationals were reported to have entered California illegally and been apprehended or evaded arrest. from In 2022, the number will exceed 300,000, the highest number ever recorded. Center Square Exclusive Reported.
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