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

[Valletta]

There seems to be context missing here: why the sudden change in application of the laws?

Yes, Trump campaigned on getting rid of the two-tiered just system and following the law. While the most violent are a priority, and that is the way it is with law enforcement throughout the country, that does not mean all other arrests will be stopped. Large sweeps were expected, the media reported this widely:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/politics/trump-immigration-what-matters

Trump's mass deportation plan for undocumented immigrants could cost billions a year

Immigration experts say Donald Trump's mass deportation plan, if carried out, could be complicated and cost billions a year. It could also lead to more family separations.

www.cbsnews.com

How Trump's Mass Deportation Plan Would Hurt the United States - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS)

Former President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan would harm US economic and domestic, and national security interests in several ways.

cmsny.org

 

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In neighboring Orange County.

Immigrant father of three Marines is violently detained, injured by federal agents, son says​

The Marine veteran says his father, Narciso Barranco, was working [as a landscaper] outside of a Santa Ana IHOP on Saturday when several masked men approached him. Frightened, he began to run away, his son said. Moments later, he was on the ground, held down by the men, who struck him.

Father of three Marines beaten by masked federal agents, set to be released from immigration facility​

The father of three U.S. Marines who was violently tackled and beaten by masked federal agents in Orange County is scheduled to be released on bond after spending 20 days in federal custody.

Narciso Barranco, an undocumented immigrant who has lived in the United States for decades, is married to a U.S. citizen and is father to two active-duty American Marines and one veteran, was ordered by an immigration judge Thursday to be released on a $3,000 bond, according to his family.

Barranco applied for parole-in-place, which allows certain undocumented immigrants to remain in the country pending a change in their immigration status.

Orange Councilmember Arianna Barrios attended Thursday’s hearing to show her support for the Tustin resident.

“Today was a good day in this new battle for civil rights, due process and humanitarian principles,” Barrios said in a Facebook post. “Mr Barranco will be released on bond sometime tomorrow (Friday) afternoon, God willing! He can remain free until mid-August, where he will have another hearing to try and adjust his status to parole-in-place...”

 

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ICE arrests at L.A. courthouse met with alarm: ‘Absolutely blindsided’​

Adriana Bernal, 37, was detained after appearing in the Airport Courthouse on La Cienega Boulevard [FWIW, I've done jury duty there] late Tuesday morning, said Jennifer Cheng, public information officer for the L.A. County alternate public defender’s office.

“Our client walked out of the courtroom and was followed by these individuals. Once our client was outside the building, these individuals (who were not in any uniform), handcuffed her, put her into a dark colored SUV and drove away,” Cheng said in an email to The Times. “We were absolutely blindsided by what happened. These purported ICE agents detained our client without notice or explanation. We received no advance communication, no opportunity to advise our client, and no information.”

When ICE engaged in similar behavior across California, Oregon, New Mexico and Colorado in 2017, during President Trump’s first term in office, prosecutors in some states reported having to drop cases because undocumented immigrants would no longer serve as witnesses.

L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said his office had no advance notice of ICE’s actions and would not notify federal officials about the immigration status of anyone they are prosecuting. “As a general proposition, I don’t want anyone deported until I’ve got them sentenced. And if their sentence is jail or state prison, I want them to serve their sentence,” he said in an interview.

The California Supreme Court previously rebuked the federal government during Trump’s last presidency for “stalking courthouses” and using the justice system as “bait,” in effect punishing undocumented people for showing up to court.

ICE officials have previously said arrests at courthouses were necessary to keep agents safe from dangerous criminals, who must pass through metal detectors and are presumably unarmed. [Bernal and her also-detained codefendant are charged with retail theft.]

 

[Pommer]

ICE arrests at L.A. courthouse met with alarm: ‘Absolutely blindsided’​

Adriana Bernal, 37, was detained after appearing in the Airport Courthouse on La Cienega Boulevard [FWIW, I've done jury duty there] late Tuesday morning, said Jennifer Cheng, public information officer for the L.A. County alternate public defender’s office.

“Our client walked out of the courtroom and was followed by these individuals. Once our client was outside the building, these individuals (who were not in any uniform), handcuffed her, put her into a dark colored SUV and drove away,” Cheng said in an email to The Times. “We were absolutely blindsided by what happened. These purported ICE agents detained our client without notice or explanation. We received no advance communication, no opportunity to advise our client, and no information.”

When ICE engaged in similar behavior across California, Oregon, New Mexico and Colorado in 2017, during President Trump’s first term in office, prosecutors in some states reported having to drop cases because undocumented immigrants would no longer serve as witnesses.

L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said his office had no advance notice of ICE’s actions and would not notify federal officials about the immigration status of anyone they are prosecuting. “As a general proposition, I don’t want anyone deported until I’ve got them sentenced. And if their sentence is jail or state prison, I want them to serve their sentence,” he said in an interview.

The California Supreme Court previously rebuked the federal government during Trump’s last presidency for “stalking courthouses” and using the justice system as “bait,” in effect punishing undocumented people for showing up to court.

ICE officials have previously said arrests at courthouses were necessary to keep agents safe from dangerous criminals, who must pass through metal detectors and are presumably unarmed. [Bernal and her also-detained codefendant are charged with retail theft.]

Arresting people at courthouses is akin to going after drug users at a rehab.

 

[Valletta]

Arresting people at courthouses is akin to going after drug users at a rehab.

Not at all. Homeland Security is not allowed to issue warrants for the illegals in their residences. They must get a court to do that. Thus they arrest them where they can find them. Realize this disaster was created by the Biden administration, who lied to Congress and the American people and was actually bringing in more people while claiming the border was safe, secure, and closed.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Not at all. Homeland Security is not allowed to issue warrants for the illegals in their residences. They must get a court to do that.

The Fourth Amendment requires Courts for all judicial warrants. That's why many businesses are turning ICE away if they have an 'administrative warrant'.

 

[Valletta]

The Fourth Amendment requires Courts for all judicial warrants. That's why many businesses are turning ICE away if they have an 'administrative warrant'.

The warrants are good for public areas, ICE just needs to wait outside. I did see a case where ICE was pursuing a subject into a medical clinic and some guy (incorrectly) was trying to say they could not enter without a judicial warrant.

 

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Border Patrol arrested her selling tamales. Then she suffered a heart attack. ‘I told them: I can’t breathe’​

The woman, who later said she had fainted while an agent bear-hugged her to the point she struggled to breathe, underwent heart surgery at a Providence Holy Cross Medical Center.

[During the arrest] She said she looked up at the tree where she had a framed picture of the Virgin Mary and began to pray: “Virgin Mary, please help me, don’t abandon me. I don’t want to die.”

Videos taken by people at the scene and shared on social media show Matilde on the ground, unconscious and surrounded by agents. In another video, firefighters are caring for her while a small crowd shames the agents for hurting the woman

Arturo Hermosillo, a U.S. citizen, was in his work van, recording it all when an agent ordered him to back up to make room for an ambulance that was en route for the woman.

As he was reversing, he said, another agent started banging on his window and side view mirror, pushing it in. He couldn’t see behind him and felt a bump.

Hermosillo opened his door to tell the agents he couldn’t move. But not long after, they dragged him out of his van.

The video shows the three agents struggling to pull Hermosillo out. Once he’s out of the van, he is shoeless on one foot and is pushed down to the hot ground so they can handcuff him.

Once in custody, he said agents accused him of obstruction and took him to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A. There, he said, the agents mocked him.

“They were saying things like I was never going to get out and that I better lawyer up,” he said.

When one agent told him he didn’t understand why the public was making a big deal of the immigration sweeps, he got angry.

“It’s because you guys are Nazis,” Hermosillo said he told the agent.

 

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Pentagon pulling 2,000 National Guard deployed to LA amid ICE protests​

“Thanks to our troops who stepped up to answer the call, the lawlessness in Los Angeles is subsiding."

 

[Pommer]

Pentagon pulling 2,000 National Guard deployed to LA amid ICE protests​

“Thanks to our troops who stepped up to answer the call, the lawlessness in Los Angeles is subsiding."

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Success!​

 

[Valletta]

Success!​

Yes, hopefully future missions will be just as successful. For now some of the National Guard can be deployed to help with the fire situation.

 

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To follow up on the tail end of the thread title...

Labor Leader Charged For Protesting ICE Raid​

David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California, finds himself at the center of a controversial clash between labor rights and ICE. Huerta, 58, was arrested during an anti-ICE protest in Los Angeles and now faces charges of "conspiracy to impede an officer," as authorities executed a federal search warrant linked to suspected employment violations at a local business.

 

[essentialsaltes]

When one agent told him he didn’t understand why the public was making a big deal of the immigration sweeps, he got angry.

“It’s because you guys are Nazis,” Hermosillo said he told the agent.

Greg Gutfeld suggests reclaiming the word 'Nazi' so people will join him in being comfortable applying it to themselves.

“This is why the criticism doesn’t matter to us when you call us Nazis. ‘Nazi this,’ and ‘Nazi that,’ Gutfeld declared on Tuesday (video below) during the cable network’s show, “The Five,” in a segment where the chyron read: “Dems Smear ICE With Nazi Comparisons.”

“You know what? I’ve said this before,” he continued. “We need to learn from the Blacks [sic] — the way they were able to remove the power from the N word by using it. So, from now on, it’s, ‘What up my Nazi?’ ‘Hey, hey, what up, my Nazi?’ ‘Hey, what’s hanging my Nazi?'”

 

[wing2000]

Yes, hopefully future missions will be just as successful. For now some of the National Guard can be deployed to help with the fire situation.

Guarding two buildings. Successful guard duty.

 

[BCP1928]

Not at all. Homeland Security is not allowed to issue warrants for the illegals in their residences. They must get a court to do that. Thus they arrest them where they can find them. Realize this disaster was created by the Biden administration, who lied to Congress and the American people and was actually bringing in more people while claiming the border was safe, secure, and closed.

It was. He had to bring them in. Sure, the border has always been leaky, that's how Mexicans have always snuck in to work. But the people you are complaining about were effectively let in in order to claim asylum.

 

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Pentagon pulling 2,000 National Guard deployed to LA amid ICE protests​

National Guard came to L.A. to fight unrest. Troops ended up fighting boredom​

They were deployed by the Trump administration to combat “violent, insurrectionist mobs” in and around Los Angeles, but in recent days the only thing many U.S. Marines and California National Guard troops seemed to be fighting was tedium.

“There’s not much to do,” one Marine said as he stood guard outside the towering Wilshire Federal Building in Westwood this week.

The blazing protests that first met federal immigration raids in downtown Los Angeles were nowhere to be seen along Wilshire Boulevard or Veteran Avenue, so many troops passed the time chatting and joking over energy drinks. The Marine, who declined to give his name because he was not authorized to speak to reporters, said his duties consisted mostly of approving access for federal workers and visitors to the Veterans Affairs office.

More than five weeks after Trump mobilized an extraordinary show of military force against the will of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, few National Guard troops and Marines have remained in public view, most retreating to local military bases in Orange County.

Steve Woolford, a resource counselor for GI Rights Hotline, a nonprofit group that provides free, confidential information to service members, said calls from troops had gone down dramatically over the last month.

“The most recent people I talked to sounded like they’re sitting around bored without much to do,” Woolford said. “And they’re happy with that: They aren’t asking to do more. At the same time, I don’t think people see a real purpose in what they’re doing at all.”

Some military personnel told the hotline that they did not want to support ICE or play any role in deporting people because they considered immigrants part of the community or had immigrants in their family, Woolford said. Others said they did not want to point guns at citizens. A few worried that the country was on the verge of turning into something like martial law, and said that they didn’t want to be on the side of being armed occupiers of their own country.

Many were shocked that the deployment orders were for 60 days.

An estimated 90% of the National Guard troops stationed in the L.A. area over the last few days have not been deployed on daily missions, according to a source within Newsom’s office who has knowledge of the military operation.

Jennifer Kavanagh, director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, a military research group, said there is little evidence that the military presence is necessary.

 

[Pommer]

Greg Gutfeld suggests reclaiming the word 'Nazi' so people will join him in being comfortable applying it to themselves.

“This is why the criticism doesn’t matter to us when you call us Nazis. ‘Nazi this,’ and ‘Nazi that,’ Gutfeld declared on Tuesday (video below) during the cable network’s show, “The Five,” in a segment where the chyron read: “Dems Smear ICE With Nazi Comparisons.”

“You know what? I’ve said this before,” he continued. “We need to learn from the Blacks [sic] — the way they were able to remove the power from the N word by using it. So, from now on, it’s, ‘What up my Nazi?’ ‘Hey, hey, what up, my Nazi?’ ‘Hey, what’s hanging my Nazi?'”

Couple this with the old Dr Pepper advert and a movement is born!

 

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Couple this with the old Dr Pepper advert and a movement is born!

In a video dated 2003, 17-year-old [Stephen] Miller sits backward on a school bus speaking about the United States’ invasion of Iraq.

“But as for Saddam Hussein and his henchmen, I think the ideal solution would be to cut off their fingers.”

“I don’t think it’s necessary to kill them entirely, we’re not a barbaric people, we respect life. Therefore torture is the way to go. Because tortured people can live. Torture is a celebration of life and human dignity”

Sounds like he's a Pepper too!

 

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About 700 Marines mobilized to support National Guard in Los Angeles​

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About 700 Marines have been mobilized to support National Guard members assigned to protect federal personnel and property in Los Angeles, according to two defense officials.

Now, a month and a half later, having done virtually nothing, they're out. Now for the remaining 2,000 National Guard, who are also doing practically nothing.

Marines to leave Los Angeles, Pentagon says​

The sometimes volatile protests that erupted in downtown Los Angeles and other parts of the region in mid-June have long since wound down. Some troops are tasked with guarding federal buildings, and some have accompanied immigration agents on tense enforcement actions. In recent days, they have been largely fighting tedium,without much to do.

A Defense Department official publicly estimated last month that the National Guard and Marine deployment in Los Angeles would cost about $134 million.

News of the Marines’ withdrawal, which was first reported by the New York Times, broke minutes after Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass finished a Monday morning public appearance with veterans’ groups, where she decried the “inappropriate” presence of military forces on L.A. streets.

“This is another win for Los Angeles. As we said this morning — the way to best support our troops is to have them do what they enlisted to do, not to protect two office buildings,” Bass said in response to the withdrawal.

“There was never a need for the military to deploy against civilians in Los Angeles,” [Gov.] Newsom said in a statement Monday. “The damage is done, however. We, again, call upon them to do the right thing and end the militarization once and for all.”

 

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Father of three Marines beaten by masked federal agents, set to be released from immigration facility​

The father of three U.S. Marines who was violently tackled and beaten by masked federal agents in Orange County is scheduled to be released on bond after spending 20 days in federal custody.

Narciso Barranco, an undocumented immigrant who has lived in the United States for decades, is married to a U.S. citizen and is father to two active-duty American Marines and one veteran, was ordered by an immigration judge Thursday to be released on a $3,000 bond, according to his family.

3 U.S. Marine brothers faced toughest mission: Getting their dad freed from ICE custody​

Narciso’s best advocate as his case moves forward is his 25-year-old son Alejandro Barranco, a Marine veteran who served as an engineer equipment mechanic and was deployed to Afghanistan during the U.S. withdrawal from the country.

The junior Barranco has tried his best to rescue his father’s livelihood since the arrest. He took up his father’s work as a landscaper and put his own work on hold. He’s waited outside federal detention facilities — first in Los Angeles and then in Adelanto — just to see his father or to attend immigration court hearings.

“It has for sure been an irritating process, to see how poorly they treat the people who are trying to get access to their families in these places,” Alejandro Barranco said. “It’s either unprofessional or they’re doing all of this poorly to treat people with this type of disrespect.”

Ramirez, Barranco’s attorney, called the federal government’s arrest tactics “arbitrary, careless and they include racial profiling and go beyond racial profiling.”

Federal inspectors who visited the [Adelanto] facility last month reported inadequate medical care and not enough guards to operate the facility. Some people wore the same clothes for 10 days in a row due to a lack of essentials at the facility.