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California spent years advertising itself as a sanctuary and then acted surprised when federal agents showed up to enforce the law. A six-week operation moving from the border north is not a raid on communities. It is the predictable result of a state that shields people who entered illegally, issues them benefits, and dares Washington to do something about it.Gavin Newsom can sign bills, hold press conferences, and call enforcement cruel. None of that changes who has jurisdiction over immigration. When a governor treats a federal statute like a suggestion, the agents eventually stop asking permission and start making arrests.The panic is not about families. It is about a political coalition that counted on open defiance and is now watching that bet collapse in public.