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Cecilia Nowell

Trump fires US attorney who told border agents to follow law on immigration raids

Immigration agents in Los Angeles
Michele Beckwith’s termination came after she sent a reminder to Border Patrol’s Gregory Bovino (above). Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Donald Trump fired a top federal prosecutor in Sacramento just hours after she warned immigration agents they could not indiscriminately detain people in her district, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times.

Michele Beckwith, who became the acting US attorney in Sacramento in January, received an email at 4.31pm on 15 July notifying her that the president had ordered her termination.

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