Jimmy Gomez

That will help prevent this from escalating.

But calling out the National Guard, he could just, in his own right,

um all of a sudden federalize them and they're already there so that is um also a dangerous situation right and and what he's trying to do in my opinion is to normalize the use of the national guard and the marines for domestic law enforcement purposes so that when he declares there is a insurrection or a stolen election he can send them in and he hopes the american people won't push back or fight back

That is extremely dangerous.

We saw that at the beginning.

And this is something that I've noticed that authoritarians do.

China, what they tend to do when it comes to Taiwan, they do these military operations and they cross into Taiwanese waters.

Well, at first, people would throw up their arms, you'd have international outcry, and it would be a big deal.

The international community doesn't bat an eye.

So he's trying to normalize the actions of ICE and CBP, which makes it very, very dangerous for our democracy.

We have to understand the true threat Donald Trump is to not only our own physical well-being, but also our democracy as a whole.

He's operating outside the bounds of the law.

We've said this for decades.

for months now, and it is becoming more and more belligerent.

The way we have to tackle it is multi, it's a multi-front effort.

One, you've got to do it in the courts.

Even though a lot of the courts, we've lost some of the court cases, especially the ones that have gone to the Supreme Court, but we've also won some of those.

That's why the National Guard, the control of the National Guard in California and different states have been returned to the control of the governor.

so you have to fight them in the courts we did that also with when i wasn't allowed in to an ice detention center the public law states that i should not be denied entry and i could do spot inspections unannounced visits well we won that case now they're trying to say that that doesn't apply anymore because of the new one big bill billionaire bill with that um new ice and cb ice uh slush fund that's in there so we're gonna keep pushing on like

through the courts, through legislation, trying to prohibit the use of funding, and then also in the streets.