Border Patrol wrongly represented the Kern County District, finds an investigation

On January 7, one day after Congress certified the election of President Donald Trump, Gregory Bovino sent 65 of his border patrol agents to Kern County. Bovino is the head of the El Centro sector in the Imperial Valley, but RAID agents held that day There was a six -hour driving north of the border.

Bovino said that before he went to Kern County, his agents had a “predetermined list of goals”, many of whom had immigration and criminal files. At the end of what the border patrol called “Operation” Return to the sender “, the agency said it arrested 78 people.

But an investigation of CalMatters’ Sergio Olmos and Wendy Fryin partnership with Apparently and BeltingI found that Officials mistakenly presented the foundations of their immigration raidS The data received from the US customs and border defense shows that the border patrol did not know in advance a criminal or immigration history of 77 of the arrested 78 people.

Last month ACLU filed a border patrol case On behalf of the workers in the United Agriculture, the agency detains people without reasonable suspicion and then deprives them of a proper process, forcing them to sign documents for only deportation.

• Casey KremmoreCEO of California Citrus Mutual, Bakersfield Citrus Fruit Producers: “If they are targeting a rural operation like the one, people who get up early in the morning to work are not drug dealers.”

But for Bovino, there is no difference between the follow -up of homeless field workers or drug dealers.

• Cattle: “If you are an illegal extraterrestrial, you get it. A fentanyl dealer, you understand it.”

Read more hereor watch ours Video Documentary on the January Immigration RebellionS

Under the background of the growing deaths associated with opioids, Gavin News Governor in 2023 set a plan for Renewal of state’s behavioral health systemS But as California is beginning to progress at the top of her behavioral health crisis, proposed abbreviations to Medicaid cast a big question about the future of these changesS

Calm Anna B. Ibara He explains that the Newsom plan to pour billions of dollars into new services and maintenance programs involves an increase in the number of treatment for treatment, training of new mental health workers and other changes.

The state draws from numerous sources to finance these endeavors, with Medicaid playing a key role: California spends for 161 billion dollars on Medicaidmost of which come by the federal governmentS Millions of Californians use Medicaid to access therapy and medicines, and the program helps to pay for some social support services that help the most vulnerable patients provide housing and food.

But last month GOP members at the House of US Representatives approved a federal budget proposal to remove $ 880 billion in cost over the next 10 years by the committee that controls Medicaid. This proposal imposes abbreviations from Medicare, Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance ProgramAccording to the budget office of the Congress and the reduction of proposals from these areas, in order to maintain the tax reductions that Trump made in 2017. disproportionately take advantage of the richS

In March, the department, which controls the state program Medicaid, also received letters of termination from the Federal Mental Health Services, which canceled $ 120 million for behavioral health grants designed to help reduce deaths at state and local levels.

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Following the stock exchange 11 trillion dollars delete last week Due to the newly carried out Trump tariffs, Concerns about already underfunded pension funds in California For state workers and teachers are under the updated focus, writes Calmatters’ Adam AshtonS

The largest and second largest public pension fund in the country -the California Public Office Retirement System (Calpers) and the California State Teacher Retirement System (Calsts), hold more than $ 800 billion assets and serve millions of Californians.

During the first two days after the Trump Tariff’s tariffs on the tariffs, Kalper lost about $ 15 billion. To Market Close on Monday, he has since lost approximately $ 23 billion with a total market value of $ 508 billion. CalSTRS updates its portfolio numbers once a month and is likely to have losses at similar Calpers speed.

Although CalSTRS Chief Investment Officer Scott Chan warned the Council last month that changes in policy within the Trump administration could cause “unprecedented” and “changing world” risks, both pension funds emphasize that their various portfolios do not rely solely on the stock market.

However, the funds have to meet their annual investment goals, which is 6.8% for Calpers and 7% for Calsts. If missed, government agencies will have to pay more to finance pensions.

Read more hereS

The Sacramento-san Hoaquin Delta faces a funding crisis that makes it difficult for effort to repair an aging network of about 1100 miles from levels that protect the region-and-and-half million people from floods. Learn more by Calmatters’ Alastair BlandS