Does US law allow Trump to send troops to quell protests? - "President Donald Trump has deployed National Guard troops to California after two days of protests by hundreds of demonstrators against immigration raids, saying that the protests interfered with federal law enforcement and framing them as a possible “form of rebellion , opens new tab” against the authority of the U.S. government. California Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday said he had formally requested that the Trump Administration rescind "its unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles County" and return them to his command. Trump cited Title 10 of the U.S. Code, a federal law that outlines the role of the U.S. Armed Forces, in his June 7 order to call members of the California National Guard into federal service. A provision of Title 10 - Section 12406 , opens new tab - allows the president to deploy National Guard units into federal service if the U.S. is invaded, there is a “rebellion or danger of rebellion” or the president is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.” An 1878 law, the Posse Comitatus Act, generally forbids the U.S. military, including the National Guard, from taking part in civilian law enforcement. Section 12406 does not override that prohibition, but it allows the troops to protect federal agents who are carrying out law enforcement activity and to protect federal property... The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to assembly, freedom of speech and the press. Experts have said that Trump's decision to have U.S. troops respond to protests is an ominous sign for how far the president is willing to go to repress political speech and activity that he disagrees with or that criticizes his administration's policies... Trump could take a more far-reaching step by invoking the Insurrection Act of 1792, which would allow troops to directly participate in civilian law enforcement, for which there is little recent precedent. Casting protests as an “insurrection” that requires the deployment of troops against U.S. citizens would be riskier legal territory, one legal expert said, in part because mostly peaceful protests and minor incidents aren’t the sort of thing that the Insurrection Act were designed to address."
I love how the media and "experts" are pretending that these are peaceful protests once again
Since January 6th was supposedly an "insurrection", left wingers can't complain now
DHS Releases Statement on Violent Rioters Assaulting ICE Officers in Los Angeles, CA and Calls on Democrat Politicians to Tone Down Dangerous Rhetoric About ICE - "Last night, over 1,000 rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building and assaulted ICE law enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and taxpayer funded property. It took the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) 2 hours to respond. Our ICE enforcement officers are facing a 413% increase in assaults against them. Disturbingly, in recent days, ICE officers’ family members have been doxed and targeted as well. These riots in Los Angeles and increased assaults on ICE officers come after Democrat politicians, including Hakeem Jeffries, Mayor Wu of Boston, Tim Walz, and Mayor Bass of Los Angeles, have villainized and demonized ICE law enforcement."
Sending in troops to protect federal agents from being attacked is literally fascism. Left wing rioters must be allowed to burn, loot and kill or this is a Danger to Democracy
Of course, left wingers are pretending the protests were peaceful till Trump sent in the army
Melanie D'Arrigo on X - "Deploying the military on U.S. soil against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. This was always their plan, and people voted for it anyway. America failed an open book test."
Page 555 doesn't say anything of the sort, naturally. So she's either lying or has the usual left wing poor comprehension skills or both. In any event, even if she were telling the truth, it would be weird how the left is playing into the right's hands. Maybe at some level they want their fantasy of Revolution to come true, so they are following the script that's in their head. Or they just only ascribe agency to people they view as evil (like Israel, the West, the US etc) and everyone else is helpless to respond instinctively like an animal
LA riots proved Trump right – but he learned a hard lesson about immigration - "The most interesting aspect of the 2025 Los Angeles immigration raids and riots is how quickly they vanished from the news. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, had just punched his 15 minutes of fame on June 12 when the Israeli air force took off for Tehran and whispers of World War III wiped LA from the national consciousness... In those few smoke-filled days, however, Los Angeles had reaffirmed a long established truth in this country: It’s a lot easier to bring migrants into America than to push them out... The Los Angeles protests were infiltrated by the so-called Omnicause, the left-wing rent-a-mob that moves from city to city trying to destabilize the old order. It's a motley crew of anarchists, ethno-nationalists and Marxists that bring their black bloc and umbrellas to social justice protests, university encampments and now immigration pushback. It wasn’t migrant dishwashers who burned Waymos or menaced ICE agents in LA. “The people who are out there doing the violence ... they have a hoodie on, they have a face mask on ... these are people who do this all the time,” said Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell, as reported by Los Angeles Magazine. “Many come in from other places just to hurt people and cause havoc. ... The violence I have seen is disgusting. But California has also become an experiment in how far you can press the immigration accelerator and still maintain a cohesive society. The Los Angeles protests were as much a production of the Biden White House as they were the reactionary Trump administration. Democrats used the Biden years to stoke the largest mass migration of immigrants in this country’s history, The New York Times reported in December. An average 2.4 million people annually poured across the border from 2021 to 2023. “Even after taking into account today’s larger U.S. population, the recent surge is the most rapid since at least 1850,” The Times reported. By 2023, the share of the U.S. population born in another country had soared to a new high ‒ 15.2%, The Times reported. In California that number is much larger – 27%, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. As for Los Angeles County, a third of its residents are now foreign born. It is not a political statement to say that mass migration is disruptive. Virtually everywhere you see it today, in the United States, Western Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, it roils the masses. There is a reaction, and one that is often consequential... The one-party state of California has produced taxation and regulation that has been raising the cost of living and housing and pushing Californians – and in particular, the working class – out. That puts the state on track to lose four of its 52 congressional seats by 2030, according to the Public Policy Institute. Today, there is evidence that even in immigrant-friendly California, where Latinos are a plurality, patience is wearing thin. Asked in February 2024 if immigrants are a benefit or a burden to California, 60% of Californians said immigrants are a benefit. But that was down from 66% in June 2023 and 78% in February 2021, the Public Policy Institute reported. We have seen nationally that Latinos are assimilating into American culture and are becoming less of a distinguishable voting bloc for any political party. Perhaps that is why a YouGov survey of American attitudes on the Los Angeles protests shows that a plurality of Latinos, 44%, disapprove while 39% approve. That almost mirrors American attitudes across the board, with 45% disapproval and 36% approval."
Left wingers were approvingly quoting the LAPD when they claimed there was no disorder, because the left wingers thought it would make Trump look bad. But of course, that doesn't jive with their insistence on blaming ICE for all the damage
Weird how the left wing agenda is all linked, as usual. The urge for Disruption and Revolution are constant
Time to condemn Latinos for being white supremacists
Did Barack Obama deport more people than Donald Trump? - "Former President Barack Obama warned of a "weak commitment" to democracy from President Donald Trump's administration... Obama had earned the critical reputation as "deporter in chief," and Trump's first term lagged behind Obama in numbers. Throughout eight years in office, the Obama administration logged more than 3.1 million ICE deportations, according to Syracuse's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. The peak was fiscal year 2012, when more than 407,000 people were removed. By comparison, the first Trump administration maxed out at deporting 269,000 people in 2019, according to the same TRAC data set. Across four years, the Trump administration recorded fewer than 932,000 deportations. The Trump administration had deported about 200,000 people over four months, border czar Tom Homan said in late May. That is still less than the number of deportations in a similar period under President Joe Biden, which the White House credits to fewer people coming to the border."
Left wingers claimed that Obama didn't violate due process when he deported people. Too bad the ACLU in 2014 did not agree, saying 83% were deported without due process
LA ICE protests burn Waymo cars – and Google, an ally - "It isn’t clear yet how so many Waymo vehicles went up in flames in Los Angeles over the weekend, but speculation abounds across the internet that protesters hailed them to downtown LA. Whether there by chance or by protester design, the driverless vehicles made easy marks for anti-government agitators, who first slashed their tires, busted out their windows, spray-painted them with graffiti and then put at least three to the torch... Los Angeles rioters protesting federal immigration roundups attacked five Waymo vehicles, the Los Angeles Times reported. They badly damaged all and set fire to three... To produce and retrofit Waymo vehicles with their sophisticated equipment and software brings the price tag to roughly $150,000 to $200,000 each, The Wall Street Journal reports. If burning Waymos becomes a protest “thing,” that could be a problem for Waymo and its parent corporation Alphabet, which also owns Google... the militant activists among them are biting the hand that feeds them. Google has been an enthusiastic and generous supporter of immigrant rights over the past decade. In 2017, Google created a $4 million crisis fund, at the time the company’s largest crisis fund ever, to support immigration rights and organizations that advance the cause... Los Angeles protesters not only torched Waymos. They also set the internet on fire with colorful snark. One post blazing across the internet uses a familiar movie still from Martin Scorsese’s 1990 gangster film “Goodfellas.” It depicts the face of mafia enforcer Tommy DeVito (played by Joe Pesci) as he walks into an empty room and realizes he’s been double-crossed. College professor Keith Oregel captioned the image, “A Waymo arriving to pick up a passenger in downtown Los Angeles.” Another internet meme shows Democratic California Rep. Nancy Pelosi – who gained notoriety for making Wall Street millions – as she walks briskly and talks on the telephone. The image is captioned, “Sell Waymo.” Today, the joke is on Waymo. Tomorrow, when those five cars yield the digital imagery of their combined 145 cameras, it might be on the protesters caught with their pants down."
Weird how the LA Times didn't know that it was ICE setting Waymos on fire
Riding the left wing tiger is perilous indeed
Trump is using LA as a testing ground for tyranny - "If the ICE raids targeting Los Angeles are necessary, why aren’t they also necessary in the red states one would assume Trump is more inclined to protect? Why are ICE agents not searching for undocumented workers on farms in Nebraska or in meat-packing plants in Indiana? Why are anti-ICE protests in red states not being met with equal federal force?"
From June 9th. This aged well. But of course, the cope is that all the violence was incited by Trump and/or was committed by federal agents
Of course, he cannot realise that red states are not targeted because there's no insurrections there
Trump is right to send Marines if Democrats won't uphold law - "When Donald Trump ran for president a second time, Democrats repeatedly cried that he would dismantle and disrupt "democratic norms." Trump certainly is an unconventional president. But I've found no evidence that he is, as charged, destroying democracy. Instead, I see Democrats, much of the mainstream media and other progressives downplaying and even excusing violent protests, illegal immigration and other actions that threaten Americans' security. Take, for example, the storylines involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who entered the United States illegally and who is accused of affiliation with a violent gang. The Trump administration was harshly criticized for wrongly deporting Abrego Garcia without due process. He is now back in the United States and faces human trafficking charges. Where are the acknowledgments from progressives and the news media that perhaps this isn't a person we want to remain in the United States, after all? If turning an alleged human smuggler into a cause célèbre isn't a disruption of norms, what is? Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, protesters are setting fire to vehicles, hurling rocks at law enforcement officers and looting businesses. All because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained people who are in the country illegally. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, incapable of restoring order in his state's largest city, has attacked Trump and others for sending in the National Guard and Marines to stop the violence. If excusing violence in the name of protecting illegal migrants, and at the expense of law and order, is not a disruption of norms, what is? When the Trump administration wrongly deported Abrego Garcia, Democratic leaders were quick to embrace him. Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen even traveled to El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia. What Van Hollen and many others ignored were the criminal accusations against Abrego Garcia. Recently, a federal grand jury indictment was made public, accusing Abrego Garcia of “conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain” and “unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain.” Prosecutors say Abrego Garcia “knowingly and unlawfully transported thousands of undocumented aliens” for profit between 2016 and 2025. Progressives seem to have a selective bias on when to ignore or champion the law. That has been the case since violent protests have erupted in Los Angeles. Progressives have portrayed efforts to enforce immigration laws in California as the "first stages of a Trump police state." Yet, most Americans support enforcing the law. A Reuters/Ipsos poll in May found that "55% of Americans support increasing deportations of immigrants without legal status." Only 42% oppose increased deportations. Progressives' excuses for illegal immigration and violent protests are more damaging than anything Trump has done in his second term. They want us to ignore not only what we are seeing with our own eyes but the rule of law as well. What we truly must not ignore is how dangerously wrong they are."
GOP's Issa blasts Democrats over response to anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles - "GOP Rep. Darrell Issa is blasting elected Democrat officials in his home state of California over their response to the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles after he called for a congressional investigation into the response time of local law enforcement. "These are the same people that tell us, you know, Biden was fine, he was on the top of his game," Issa said about Democrat narratives responding to the riots that have been unfolding in Los Angeles since Friday. "So their credibility goes with what you see versus what they say. I can't think of a better example of why you shouldn't believe or vote for people in that party as long as they're willing to literally lie to your face on what you're seeing with your own eyes." Democrats across the country, from California to Washington, D.C., have downplayed the rioting and focused on the claim that the majority of the anti-ICE displays have been "peaceful." Additionally, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other Democrats have blamed President Donald Trump's mobilizing the National Guard for making the situation worse. Issa, who represents California’s 48th Congressional District, took issue with that narrative. "First of all, there was damage, both vandalism and actual destruction done before Trump got involved, and that's the reason he got involved, but there's another thing that some people miss," Issa told Fox News Digital. "When ICE agents called for police support when they were being assaulted, they hunkered down and waited two hours before police responded because police couldn't get authority to react. So that alone gave a reason for the president to bring in additional federalized troops to protect the ICE agents."... "Understand that we have over 10 million people who were let into this country, and tens of thousands of them are serious criminal aliens," Issa said. "There were warrants. There were orders to deport. There are reasons that we've got to go after many of these people in cities around the country. If ICE agents can't be protected or won't be protected by people like the mayor and my governor, then the president's going to have to continue to do this, eventually create escorts for ICE agents."... "One thing that I'm very happy about is, I know that by taking strong action here, he’s keeping it from occurring in other cities around the country, because what you don’t want is what ultimately happened in 2020 where we saw it happening not just in one city but in city after city where more than two dozen people died and billions of dollars of damage occurred because it wasn't handled quickly enough, and we've learned from that." Issa told Fox News Digital that he finds it curious why Democrats have used the word "insurrection" to describe the Jan. 6th riots that lasted hours but have not used the term to describe what has unfolded in Los Angeles over several days. "We heard the word ‘insurrection’ for a couple of years nonstop, and now in Los Angeles, when people are directly assaulting property and law enforcement, that's the very definition of insurrection; and particularly when they're doing it on behalf of people who are sitting in jails because they were arrested for crimes, not just for entering the country illegally but for actual felonies," Issa said. "And it's sort of amazing to believe that high-ranking elected officials like Gov. Newsom would actually try to defend any of that action. And yet they're doing it." Issa went on to say that Newsom’s response to the riots "might have worked in the era of print or maybe even the era of radio" but that video evidence of rioting from the scene makes his position untenable."
Calif. candidate for governor blasts Newsom while walking through riot aftermath - ""I've been here for days, seeing what's going on with these riots. One of the most shocking things is the scale of the graffiti," Hilton told Fox News Digital. "Everywhere you go in downtown LA, every surface is covered in vile, disgusting graffiti. And to me it is a really vivid symbol of the total collapse of law and order of civilized values, that they just let this happen. All of this could have been prevented."... "For years and years, I tried to fight for reform within the party," Romero told Fox. "Finally, like my friend[s] Leo Terrell, Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, I said, the [Democrat] party left me. It is so woke. It is gone." "Today we are looking at what happens then when those who are unvetted come in, and we're looking at not only just the Maryland man as they described him, the California man, but we're looking at rapists, convicted rapists, sex traffickers, murderers," Romero added."
'Worse than COVID': LA businesses turn into 'ghost towns' due to ICE raids
Clearly it's the fault of ICE, not the rioters
Some LA migrant protests fueled by taxpayer-funded group with Dem ties, another with CCP link - "One of the groups leading anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles is a taxpayer-funded activist organization with ties to the Democratic Party, while another has links to the Chinese Communist Party. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) — which received tens of millions of dollars in government grants during the Biden administration — staged a rally last week to denounce Immigration and Customs Enforcement arresting illegal migrants across the city, including those convicted of heinous crimes... According to financial records obtained by DataRepublican, CHIRLA received nearly $34 million in government grants, mostly from the state of California, in the fiscal year ending June 2023, a jump from the $12 million it received the previous year. The radical group also received around $450,000 in grants for “citizenship education and training” between October 2021 and September 2024 from the DHS — the very agency the group was protesting last week. The federal agency cut ties with the group and terminated any further funding in March, including clawing back nearly $101,000 that had yet to be paid out... Another group that was behind some of last week’s protests is the Marxist Party for Socialism and Liberation, which played a part in virulent past anti-Israel campus protests at Columbia University and which was once associated with suspected DC terrorist Elias Rodriguez. PSL has ties to the Chinese Communist Party through funding from socialist billionaire Neville Singham and his wife, Jodie Evans, founder of activist group Code Pink, according to a 2024 report by the Network Contagion Research Institute. Singham sank millions of dollars into backing the groups after selling his software company, ThoughtWorks, for $785 million in 2017. Singham’s ties to the Chinese government and Communist propaganda are well-documented. The New York Times published a lengthy 2023 expose on his far-reaching money machine, which has steered millions to China-praising nonprofits from South Africa, Ghana and Zambia to Brazil, New Delhi and beyond... California Gov. Gavin Newsom and embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass decried the raids, the latter claiming federal agents used tactics that “sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city.”"
A basic principle of safety is that you must let left wing rioters burn down cities and assault law enforcement
California funds $73.6M to anti-deportation groups, sparking GOP audit demand - "Government transparency group Open The Books reported the state of California provided anti-deportation groups with $73.6 million in 2023 and 2024, including the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, which received $35 million. California Republican lawmakers responded by demanding an audit into the extent to which state funding is subsidizing CHIRLA’s protest and activism-related activities. “I’m formally requesting the Legislature audit the extent by which LA’s riots are being bankrolled by a taxpayer subsidized nonprofit,” said Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez, R-Trabuco Canyon, on X. “There is zero excuse for our tax dollars to go towards these riots.” OTB’s report highlights CHIRLA’s “Wise Up!” program, which it says teaches high schoolers how to become activists, and the organization's policy platform. According to CHIRLA’s website, the program seeks to “organize high school students — both undocumented and allies — around immigrant rights, and full access to educational opportunities,” and “activates students” by “engaging them civically to fight in the legislative arena and the public square for measures that ease their access to education and citizenship.” CHIRLA’s website also outlines its policy advocacy pillars, which include “challenge anti-immigrant legislation,” “reduce immigration enforcement,” and “invest in immigrant communities.”... In February, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill authorizing another $25 million for legal aid for residents, the majority of which appears likely to go toward deportation defense for illegal immigrants."
Of course, a government funding conservative groups to support government policy would be fascism
California sheriff blasts Kamala Harris' 'embarrassing' statement on LA anti-ICE riots - "A California sheriff slammed Kamala Harris for her 'embarrassing' statement attempting to blame Donald Trump for the outrageous Los Angeles riots. The former vice president released a statement condemning the president for deploying the National Guard, which she called a 'dangerous escalation.'... 'President Trump didn't start these riots. He's not out there lighting cars on fire, hurling projectiles at law enforcement or blocking freeways. This statement is an embarrassment and does nothing to diffuse the violent riots taking place across the city,' Bianco wrote on social media. He said that Democratic leaders the likes of Harris, Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass 'own this.' The one-time Democratic presidential nominee then went on to express her support for the protests - which she called 'overwhelmingly peaceful.' 'In addition to the recent ICE raids in Southern California and across our nation, it is part of the Trump administration's cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division,' she wrote. Bianco made another post quote-tweeting a video from the riots that made fools of that statement... 'An adherence to law is an absolute requirement if we are to remain a civilized society,' he said in a statement... 'We didn't have a problem until Trump got involved,' Newsom said in his extraordinary rebuke... Mayor Karen Bass echoed those statements, telling CNN: 'This sows chaos that is not warranted nor needed in the city of Los Angeles. 'It's as though troops were rolled out in a provocative manner and I do not see how that is helpful to Los Angeles right now, it's not the type of resources that we need in the city. 'We do not need to have our city under siege.'"
Rule of law is fascism when it threatens the left wing agenda
Federal buildings and agents being attacked isn't a problem when it pushes the left wing agenda
Left wing approved rioters destroying cities isn't chaos. Protecting people and property is chaos
