California Governor Gavin Newsom's office, in a statement sent to Newsweek: "Sharing Medicaid beneficiary information with the Department of Homeland Security—which is itself legally dubious—will jeopardize the safety, health, and security of those who will undoubtedly be targeted by this abuse, and Americans more broadly.

After the president admitted his current immigration policy is hurting American businesses, the California governor had a fiery response.

The deployment of the National Guard catapulted Gov. Gavin Newsom to the front lines of a Democratic resistance against Trump that he has been reluctant to embrace.