The following month, when a phalanx of Border Patrol agents showed up outside a news conference held by leading California Democrats — including Gov. But the agent saw it otherwise, observing that Border Patrol “essentially raided the Newsom press conferences.” “Border Patrol presence is going to cause people to want to be out of the area they are in,” he said. The one-page documents, generated by a software program, took the place of the thoroughly researched files that federal immigration agents had traditionally prepared. An acting deputy chief with Border Patrol testified about lack of eye contact as a tipoff that someone is “culturally different.”