A senior Border Patrol official warned North Carolina’s Democratic governor on Tuesday to refrain from spouting “lies” against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, warning it is provoking violence against federal law enforcement carrying out operations in the state. 

The warning to Gov. Josh Stein (D-NC) was issued by Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol’s chief of the El Centro, California, region and commander of ICE operations in Los Angeles and Chicago, who is also leading Border Patrol’s efforts to help ICE arrest illegal immigrants in Charlotte and other North Carolina cities. It comes as ICE faces a 1,300% increase in vehicular attacks, and CBP faces a 58% increase, according to DHS.