Multiple immigration sweeps reported across Los Angeles, with a tense standoff/protest downtown; SEIU union leader arrested

[BCP1928]

LA news anchor sparks fury for calling rioters ‘a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn’

Rand said it “could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and alte…

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LA news anchor sparks fury for calling rioters ‘a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn’​

There's quite a bit of truth to that. Have you seen any videos? Not the lurid clips on the evening news, It's pretty clear that many of the crowd are just people who showed up to see what was going on.

 

[BPPLEE]

There's quite a bit of truth to that. Have you seen any videos? Not the lurid clips on the evening news, It's pretty clear that many of the crowd are just people who showed up to see what was going on.

Yeah the cars just spontaneously combusted

 

[Hans Blaster]

Yeah the cars just spontaneously combusted

I heard they were suicidal self-driving cars.

 

[JosephZ]

The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown

After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to ‘just go out there and arrest illegal aliens’

In late May, Stephen Miller, a top White House aide and the architect of the president’s immigration agenda, addressed a meeting at the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. The message was clear: The president, who promised to deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally, wasn’t pleased. The agency had better step it up.

Gang members and violent criminals, what Trump called the “worst of the worst,” weren’t the sole target of deportations. Federal agents needed to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens,” Miller told top ICE officials, who had come from across the U.S., according to people familiar with the meeting.

Agents didn’t need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire, or 7-Eleven convenience stores.

ICE agents appeared to follow Miller’s tip and conducted an immigration sweep Friday at the Home Depot in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Westlake in Los Angeles, helping set off a weekend of protests around Los Angeles County, including at the federal detention center in the city’s downtown. On Saturday, Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to Southern California, despite objections by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

There are no written directives, but officers have been told to “do what you need to do” to make more arrests, according to current and former ICE officials familiar with the directives.

Federal agents make warrantless arrests. Masked agents take people into custody without identifying themselves. Plainclothes agents in at least a dozen cities have arrested migrants who showed up to their court hearings. And across the U.S., people suspected of being in the country illegally are disappearing into the federal detention system without notice to families or lawyers, according to attorneys, witnesses and officials.

Americans detained by ICE have said they were held for hours or longer before being allowed to prove their citizenship.

In some jurisdictions, agents said their supervisors have allowed them to more frequently seek criminal warrants to arrest targets. Administrative warrants are typically used for illegal immigration, which is a civil, not a criminal, violation. Criminal warrants allow agents to break down doors and forcibly enter homes.

Maksim Zaitsev, a 36-year-old Russian citizen with a pending asylum case, said he was beaten by ICE agents after calling for his wife when the agents arrested him during an immigration check-in at an ICE office. “It was like I was in a washing machine,” Zaitsev said in an interview from a detention facility in Adelanto, Calif.

Photographs in court filings show Zaitsev with bruises and scabs on his face. Zaitsev was charged for biting an officer, but a federal judge dismissed the assault case, citing government misconduct. Zaitsev said it was self-defense.

“We came to the United States for protection because of what we encountered in Russia,” he said. “It seems that we are encountering here what we fled.”

Less than 20%...

 

[RocksInMyHead]

Have you seen any videos? Not the lurid clips on the evening news,

I find it highly ironic that the conservative members of the forum who so frequently complain about media bias and claim that we can't trust anything that "mainstream media" says are so quick to take these obviously cherry-picked photos and video clips as representative of the entire situation.

 

[wing2000]

Families allegedly detained by ICE during annual status check-ins

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said families who were attending their required annual status check-ins with immigration were being detained, despite having the proper paperwork.

"Can you imagine having your annual appointment to ICE. You're here, you might not be a citizen, but you have papers and you're told that you need to go to the facility to check in, and then you are detained? And you go with your family and your kids and the whole family is detained?"

...the same practice has been employed in Phoenix.

 

[essentialsaltes]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5340791-video-protesters-chp-officers-la-anti-ice-protests/

Video: Protesters throw rocks at CHP officers from LA freeway bridge​

Yes, that was Sunday. Hopefully the worst of it.

 

[wing2000]

Maksim Zaitsev, a 36-year-old Russian citizen with a pending asylum case, said he was beaten by ICE agents after calling for his wife when the agents arrested him during an immigration check-in at an ICE office. “It was like I was in a washing machine,” Zaitsev said in an interview from a detention facility in Adelanto, Calif.

What a poor reflection on the United States and some Americans who seem to enjoy mistreating their fellow human beings.

 

[Canuckster]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5340791-video-protesters-chp-officers-la-anti-ice-protests/

Video: Protesters throw rocks at CHP officers from LA freeway bridge​

That's attempted murder. Big rocks thrown from that height can easily kill. A leftist rock party

 

[durangodawood]

That's attempted murder....

Yes, I hope they get those people and charge them as you note.

 

[rjs330]

ICE is causing the violence here.

Nope, the left is. Acts of terrorism is what the left does now.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Nope, the left is.

Nope, rioters are.

 

[rjs330]

Families allegedly detained by ICE during annual status check-ins

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said families who were attending their required annual status check-ins with immigration were being detained, despite having the proper paperwork.

"Can you imagine having your annual appointment to ICE. You're here, you might not be a citizen, but you have papers and you're told that you need to go to the facility to check in, and then you are detained? And you go with your family and your kids and the whole family is detained?"

Rep. Laura Friedman said her office has received reports of people being detained by ICE during their court appointments.

"when we see people who are working as gardeners, people who are working in the back of restaurants, being picked up, that's not what the president said he was going to use precious ICE resources on,"

As many are being held at the Roybal Federal building in downtown LA, eyewitness accounts and attorney reports detail overcrowded conditions, with individuals held in the building's basement, conference rooms, and even outdoor tents due to lack of space.

Detainees have reportedly been deprived of food and water for 12 to 24 hours or more, with some families, including young children, forced to endure these conditions overnight. Additionally, lights in the building reportedly shut off at 5 p.m., leaving families in complete darkness.

One attorney reported a client was being held without food or water from 2 p.m. until the next day, while his wife and two children waited over 12 hours. There are also reports of a 20-year-old woman being held alone, separated from her mother, despite having legally checked in with ICE for years and being days from a court date for an asylum process.

I think they are lying. At least about deprived of food and water for 12 to 25 hours. What utter nonsense.

Arrested during court appointments? During process in action.

Can you imagine having your annual appointment to ICE. You're here, you might not be a citizen, but you have papers and you're told that you need to go to the facility to check in, and then you are detained? And you go with your family and your kids and the whole family is detained?"

Sounds like good tactics to me.

"when we see people who are working as gardeners, people who are working in the back of restaurants, being picked up, that's not what the president said he was going to use precious ICE resources on,"


Yes it is. He said he was going to remove all if them. Its what we voted for. We want ALL illegals gone.

 

[rjs330]

I wonder if someone sneaks through a hole in a fence from Mexico into the US, takes five steps and is spotted by a border patrol agent...

Is it okay for the agent to tell them to turn around and go back?

Or should it be that since they've taken five steps into the US, they should be put in a holding facility until they are put though a year's worth of due process, and then sent back?

I think they should be arrested, identified, fingerprinted and then sent back with no further process.

 

[rjs330]

Nope, rioters are.

They are part of the left and supported by leftists and leftist politicians.

 

[rjs330]

I guess my humor is too subtle.

Maybe, or maybe I'm just dense.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

They are part of the left and supported by leftists and leftist politicians.

Just like the rioters on Jan 6 were supported by the right and rightist politicians. Acts of terrorism are what the right does when elections don’t go their way.

 

[Belk]

Nope, the left is. Acts of terrorism is what the left does now.

 

[ozso]

They are part of the left and supported by leftists and leftist politicians.

Leftist politicians supporting it stands out as key. That makes it officially leftist/democrat so to speak.

 

[ozso]

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