Los Angeles stands up to ICE

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Reading the LA Times coverage about the people of Los Angeles tonight, I needed to do a post about their courage. 

Its not surprising that people are organizing to oppose what ICE and Homeland Security are doing to US cities.

A good summary here:

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The population of Los Angeles County in 2023 was 9.63 million. Los Angeles County's Hispanic or Latino population was estimated to be 4.8 million. Los Angeles County has the largest Hispanic/Latino population in the United States. It was also estimated that there were around 951,000 undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles County alone.
It’s always smart to know if you’re going to go to war with somebody what the opposing force looks like. Well, it looks pretty big to me.
I’m going to take a leap of faith here and say most of the LA Latino community do not like being shoved around and harassed by ICE thugs or other federal law enforcement officers. I’m going to take another leap of faith and say there are many non Latino members of the LA community who also don’t like seeing their community turned into a war zone. Actually, the amount of resistance I’m seeing already confirms these suspicions.
So … Trump and his war mongers Tom Holman, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller and others want to go to war with LA. Miller has even called the protesters protesting recent ICE raids “insurrectionists.”
Remember, just a few days ago LA citizens were just living their normal everyday existence in an already complex, chaotic, culturally diverse metropolitan community. There’s a lot going on in LA to put it mildly. But people love it and it’s THEIR community. There’s no other place else like it in the world.
So in marches ICE and a community that was churning along and nowhere near the level of violence that ICE has brought with them is now on the precipice of full scale riots and war.
Let’s not forget. LA is no stranger to riots. Remember the Rodney King riots? Those riots resulted in over 60 deaths, thousands of injuries, and an estimated $1 billion in property damage. Or you can go all the way back to the Watts riots in 1965. Those, too, resulted in significant loss of life, injuries, and widespread property damage. Lots of other smaller eruptions of civil unrest lay between and after those two historical events in LA.
And our own federal government wants to provide the spark that sets off something like that again?!? Somebody better get a grip. Somebody better be asking where this all ends. What have we got ourselves into?
BECAUSE THIS IS NUTS! This is not the way to handle what little bit of a problem we had with illegal immigration. Most people KNOW the vast majority of these people were no problem at all. They came here to work and work they did. A recent study found they produced 63 million dollars of income to our economy more than it costs us to have them here. Stephen Miller quashed that government report, btw. He sure didn’t want any of us seeing that after telling us all these years, immigrants cost us all this money.
I sure hope the legislature, the courts, ANYBODY can stop this runaway administration soon. If not I can’t even imagine how bad things may become.

This is straight up authoritarian playbook shit. Trump is going to deploy our troops on our streets against our people. And he’s not going to stop with one protest in one city. Trump is going to invoke the Insurrection Act. And that will be a point of no return.

- JoJoFromJerz

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The Secretary of Defense is now threatening to deploy active-duty Marines on American soil against its own citizens.

This is deranged behavior.

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 8, 2025

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If you’re in Los Angeles right now, make smart decisions and keep yourself safe. Trump and his people are clearly thirsty to escalate this situation—they’re practically giddy about it all over social media. Just be careful, because they want violence.

- Mike Nellis

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I think ICE has lost their minds -- they wear roll up in full battle dress to arrest line cooks and warehouse clerks and parents attending elementary school graduations. Now they're posting wild stuff about bricks! This is like the cement milkshakes we heard about during the G20 and George Floyd protests, and all the other mythical security panic stories that pop up whenever authorities start thinking of themselves as bosses rather than public servants:

Because Home Depot NEVER has bricks in stock, amirite.

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— Sister Golden Bear (@sistergoldenbear.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM

ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM

And Stephen Miller is the guy telling ICE what to do next:

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— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM

Tom Holman, now in LA, has made a televised statement and it appears that he seems to think he is General Patten… mobilizing his troops against LA.

— Candy England (@candyengland.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM

Trying to look at the larger view, too, I thought this post is very true.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

— Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM

Because of course I myself was born of immigrants, my great-grandparents were immigrants. Just about everyone I know or have ever met must trace their roots back to Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, India, South America... except for Canada's Indigenous peoples who were here long before any of the rest of us. 

We say sometimes here in Canada "we are all Treaty people".  And we could also say "we are all immigrants" too.

UPDATE: I just saw this, from George Conway:

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