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Ash explains that an immigration enforcement team last year removed his Brazilian kerbside neighbours who had been working as delivery riders, leaving abandoned caravans which were taken over by drug dealers and alcoholics.

Mayor Arturo Flores is battling a recall by opponents who claim on social media he’s a “reckless alcoholic” and abuses women while offering no evidence to back up the scurrilous claims.

The pair told the programme they had not met before they agreed to play an alcoholic and his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor.

“This all could be alcoholic made-up stories. But in prison she wasn’t drinking. It was very consistent, and it never changed…. She was very mad that she got caught. She hated to lose.”

Back in the day, Sacramento authorities “escorted their criminals, morphine addicts and alcoholics” to the area, according to a historian quoted in the Sacramento Bee in 1984.