Michele Beckwith, a seasoned federal prosecutor who had pursued terrorists, sex traffickers and violent gangs for over 15 years, was abruptly removed from her role as acting US attorney in Sacramento this summer following a dispute over immigration raids. Beckwith had stepped into the post in January after her predecessor, a Biden appointee, resigned. But according to documents reviewed by The New York Times, her career collapsed on 15 July—just hours after she warned Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol chief, that his agents could not carry out indiscriminate arrests in her district. The disagreement stemmed from a federal court ruling in April, which restricted Border Patrol operations in parts of California. Judge Jennifer Thurston had ruled that agents could only detain indi

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