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Past ICE funding votes are reshaping governor race
Los Angeles Times
|January 29, 2026
Minnesota killings stir up contest as vying Democrats point fingers
CANDIDATES Jon Slavet, left, Tom Steyer and Rep. Eric Swalwell were among those taking part in the California Governor Candidate Forum in L.A. this month.
MYUNG J. CHUN Los Angeles Times
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.
This story is from the January 29, 2026 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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