How past ICE funding votes are reshaping Californias race for governor

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SACRAMENTO — Two of the top Democratic candidates in the race for California governor are taking heat for their past votes to fund and support federal immigration enforcement as the backlash against the Trump administration’s actions in Minnesota intensifies after the shooting death of Alex Pretti.Fellow Democratic candidates are criticizing Rep.Eric Swalwell and former Rep.

Katie Porter for voting — in Swalwell’s case, as recently as June — to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and support its agents’ work.Swalwell (D-Dublin) last year voted in favor of a Republican-sponsored resolution condemning an attack that injured at least eight people demonstrating in support of Israeli hostages, one of whom later died, in Boulder, Colo., and expressing “gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, for protecting the homeland.”He was one of 75 Democrats, including nine from California, to cross the aisle and vote in favor of the resolution.“The fact that Eric Swalwell stood with MAGA Republicans in Washington to thank ICE while in California masked ICE agents terrorized our communities — despite Swalwell’s notorious and chronic record of absenteeism from Congress, is shamefully hypocritical,” former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a rival Democrat running for governor, said in a statement.Swalwell’s campaign dismissed the attack as a “political ploy” by “a desperate campaign” polling in single-digits.“What Eric voted for was a resolution to condemn a horrific antisemitic attack in Boulder, CO that killed Karen Diamond, an 82-year old grandmother,” a campaign spokesman said in a statement.

“The truth is no one has been more critical of ICE than Eric Swalwell.”The exchange comes as Villaraigosa, Swalwell and other Democrats running to replace Gov.Gavin Newsom, who is serving hi...