Mayhem ensued when ICE raids were
conducted in Los Angeles yesterday. Like in Minneapolis, leftists came
out of the woodwork to berate and disrupt federal agents enforcing
immigration laws. Unlike that incident, however, it didn’t lead to what I
was told is an act of armed rebellion: anti-ICE activists stormed a
federal building, and the local police were nowhere to be found (via Los Angeles Times):
A series of surprise U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement sweeps in downtown Los Angeles on Friday prompted fierce
pushback from elected officials and protesters, who decried the
enforcement actions as “cruel and unnecessary” and said they stoked fear
in the immigrant community.
Tensions remained high in downtown
into the evening. The Los Angeles Police Department declared an unlawful
assembly and ordered around 200 protesters who remained gathered by the
Los Angeles Federal Building to disperse around 7 p.m.
Chaos
erupted earlier in the day in the heart of the Fashion District after
federal immigration authorities detained employees inside a clothing
wholesaler, and used flash-bang grenades and pepper spray on a crowd
protesting the raid around 1:30 p.m.
Hundreds of people then
rallied outside the Los Angeles Federal Building at 4 p.m., condemning
the crackdown and demanding the release of Service Employees
International Union California President David Huerta, who was injured
and detained while documenting a raid, according to a statement from the
labor union.
“Our community is under attack and has been
terrorized,” Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for
Humane Immigrant Rights, or CHIRLA, told the crowd of protesters. “These
are workers, these are fathers, these are mothers.”
Forty-four
people were administratively arrested and one person was arrested for
obstruction during Friday’s immigration action, said Yasmeen Pitts
O’Keefe, a spokesperson for Homeland Security Investigations, a branch
of ICE. Federal agents executed four search warrants related to the
suspected harboring of people illegally in the country at three
locations in central Los Angeles, she said.
Sorry, this was an insurrection. It once again shows how leftism has
become fertile ground for domestic terrorism. They’re firebombing
pro-Israel rallies, they’re assassinating aides to the Israeli Embassy
in DC, and they tried to kill the governor of Pennsylvania.
This is the hill liberals are dying on these days.
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