California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to a report that Sacramento-based federal prosecutor Michelle Beckwith was fired after she warned against U.S. Border Patrol raids in California.

According to The New York Times , President Donald Trump fired Beckwith on July 15, six hours after she told a Border Patrol official that a court order prevented him from arresting people without probable cause in California. The ruling impacted a wide area from the Oregon border to Bakersfield.

The firing happened just two days before the Border Patrol conducted a raid at a Home Depot parking lot in south Sacramento, where masked agents arrested 11 people .

Newsom posted on social media, "President Trump has fired the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento because she insisted on following the law,"

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