Border Patrol agents conducted an immigration raid on Thursday at a Home Depot parking lot in Sacramento County, in a sign that federal officials are heading deeper into California after focusing on the Los Angeles region in recent weeks.
Gregory K. Bovino, the head of Border Patrol’s El Centro region, said
in a produced video
that federal agents had begun operations in the Sacramento area, and that at least eight people had been arrested for being in the country without authorization. Sacramento is a nearly 600-mile drive northwest of El Centro, Calif., and the border with Mexico.
The raid came nearly a week after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration
to stop indiscriminate immigration arrests
in the Los Angeles region. The ruling in the Central District of California did not apply to Sacramento.
The edited video, which was overlaid with the song “Power” by Kanye West, appeared to show people running away from masked federal agents in tactical gear in a Home Depot parking lot.
“Folks, there is no such thing as a sanctuary city,” Mr. Bovino said in the video. “There’s no such thing as a sanctuary state.”
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that at least 11 undocumented immigrants had been arrested in the Sacramento area as of Thursday evening. One person, Mr. Bovino said, was arrested on Thursday for impeding or assaulting a federal officer during the raid.
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