President Trump deployed 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles and the surrounding area this weekend to shield U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from scores of roving rioters and leftist protestors.
Boots hit the ground after it was revealed that violent, leftist mobs were confronting, doxxing, and assaulting ICE agents who were attempting to carry out deportation orders on illegal aliens occupying Los Angeles County. The weekend conflict sparked after over 1,000 Antifa-like organized rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building in Los Angeles, defaced property, slashed tires, and assaulted ICE officers. According to the Department of Homeland Security, it took the Los Angeles Police Department 2 hours to respond to the chaos.
Social media platforms are now inundated with seemingly never-ending coverage of rioting, vandalism, assault, theft, and arson in the Los Angeles area, while federal agents are attacked in the streets. How have Californian politicians reacted to this blatant insurrection attempt against our government?
A ‘Threat to Our Democracy? Not if Its Democrats
Despite legally carrying out deportation raids under the federal authority of DHS, ICE agents have been inundated with threats, both online and in person, from leftist protestors who violently defy federal law and shield illegal aliens from deportation. With a record 413% nationwide increase in assaults against ICE agents, Democrats remain nowhere to be found when it comes to ending the violent insurrection in Los Angeles.
In fact, theyve been fanning the flames and stoking hatred against ICE, Trump, and Republicans in general – in other words, business as usual.
LAs Democratic Mayor Karen Bass has come out against the ICE missions, openly defying federal law in order to shield illegal aliens from rightful deportation. California Gov. Gavin Newsom called a looming threat of deploying Marines, “on American soil against its own citizens … deranged behavior.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts called the deployment to curb the violent riots “an abuse of power and a dangerous escalation.”
Meanwhile on the ground, Democrats are inciting the violent riots, calling for more force against ICE efforts. LA City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez took to the streets, calling for people to openly resist federal authority: “[C]ommunity defense works, and our resistance has slowed them down before … and if theyre escalating their tactics, then so are we. When they show up, we gotta show up even stronger.”
Sen. Adam Schiff of California asserted: “Violence must stop, and we need to keep the focus on protecting fundamental rights. There is nothing President Trump would like more than a violent confrontation with protestors to justify the unjustifiable – invocation of the Insurrection Act or some form of martial law.”
Democrats protecting fundamental rights and states sovereignty? Where were the Democrats when Ashli Babbitt was murdered for peacefully protesting? When Jan. 6 protestors were intentionally robbed of their Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial? When Bidens DOJ willfully ignored Antifa terrorists firebombing pro-life pregnancy centers? Or when Laken Riley was brutally murdered by an illegal alien?
Democrats only cry wolf when it benefits their politics. In this case, they will go to war against the federal government to protect illegal migrants over the safety of American citizens.
Democrats Are Breaking the Law by Prioritizing Foreigners Over Americans
Democrats like Gavin Newsom, Adam Schiff, and Karen Bass seem to have skipped out on high school civics; they willfully violated federal law by resisting ICE activity. Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to make all necessary and proper laws to execute its constitutional obligations – including immigration law. Article IV, Section 4 requires immigration and border laws to be enforced for the sake of national security: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.” This includes violent riots.
California Democrats arent only resisting clear federal law, but also violating their own laws. California Penal Code Section 32 explicitly states that any person who harbors, conceals, or aids an individual who they know committed, or was charged with, a felonyis a willful accessory to that felony, and may be arrested themselves.
Translation: Physically attacking ICE personnel and preventing federal border agents from doing their job is considered state and federal felony activity. Democrats should lawyer up or stand down.
So, who are the “immigrants” Democrats are willing to firebomb federal facilities and get arrested for? DHS posted a sample of the migrant arrests conducted this past weekend; the arrestees included illegal migrants previously convicted for narcotics possession, robbery, domestic violence, possession of a prohibited weapon, DUI, second degree murder, and rape.
This past week alone, ICE has arrested 2,000 aliens, a number of whom were wanted for drug trafficking, gang activity, child abuse, robbery, and – most important of all – entering the United States illegally.
Democrats continue to resist federal authority when it suits them best; in this case, its for rioters who proudly wave foreign flags on American soil, curse the country that has given them so much, and destroy American communities in senseless acts of weekend violence.
One thing is certain however: You cant have your cake and eat it too. Democrats cant cry over Jan. 6 until the end of time, while actively encouraging violent protests against the federal government merely for carrying out its constitutional duties. If this weekends LA riots have taught us anything, it is that Democrats are prouder of noncitizens waiving foreign flags and trashing our streets than they are of American citizens exercising their civic rights.
In the words of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: “Enough is enough.”
Connor Vasile is a political commentator and analyst. He is the author of “The State Knows Best” and “I’m Joe Biden: In His Own Words.” You can find him on X @connor_vasile.
