Troops in Los Angeles

Illegal regime actions deserve protests.

A reader, Michael Fox, said it best: “I believe that you go right for the jugular."

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DAPHNE, AL, USA 09:20 am - American people, Donald Trump federalized 4,000 National Guard troops and sent 700 U.S. Marines to support 200 ICE agents in Los Angeles. Yesterday in LA, 12 brown people were arrested at a car wash and one brown U.S. Senator was handcuffed and evicted from a DHS press conference. Over the last 6 days, nearly 5,000 federal employees assigned have nearly cleared the one city block in downtown LA where brown protestors convened peacefully.

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla is strong armed—assaulted—by FBI agents at a press conference. The State of California can bring assault charges if they take this to a grand jury.

Pam Thakker in Zeteo said:

“Now, the regime has massively expanded its shadowy operations, much of it coming to a head in recent weeks. The governing party – held together by a coalition confronting mass protest and rapidly shifting public opinion – has overseen a ratcheting up of detention and deportation operations, with state agents detaining people and children at immigration hearings, foster care, on their way to high school volleyball practice, and work sites. The operations have chilled courts, stymied work projects, and mobilized thousands in communities across the nation to demonstrate against the regime.

Masked administration agents even brutalized and detained a 9-month pregnant woman, an American citizen, accusing her of somehow obstructing their operations. She was hospitalized upon her release so doctors could monitor her and her baby’s health. Her due date is next week.“

Yesterday was a day of major immigration-policy whiplash at the White House. For weeks, Stephen Miller had spearheaded an effort to browbeat DHS and ICE into ratcheting up detentions and deportations—not to bother with targeting criminals and gang members, but to simply scoop up undocumented people by the fistful at Home Depot and 7-Eleven. ICE’s rush to implement these changes helped spark the 6 days of unrest we saw in Los Angeles this week.

But yesterday, Donald Trump slammed the brakes. The courts intervened and said the use of the National Guard was illegal. So Trump did his TACO dance. Trump lamented:

“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!”

Later, he repeated the point while speaking to reporters:

“Our farmers are being hurt badly by—you know, they have very good workers, they’ve worked for them for 20 years, they’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be, you know, great. And we’re going to have to do something about that. We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back.”

Coming from the mouth of anyone else on earth, this argument would have earned a screeching denunciation from Miller and his allies. Given that it instead came from Trump, Miller was compelled to remain sullenly silent. DHS deportation efforts have been throttle because you stood up. Keep the pressure on peacefully please. Here are results 2020-2025.

The Administration’s roundup has been ineffective, to say the least. Half the year is gone, arrests are 25% of last year, and due process has stymied Miller.

We are in the divide now. We must tilt the balance to egalitarianism, and you know well we have a bounty of love to give. It irks me that the haters are so few in number, but so very well funded. We can forge our fate only if we can build a foundation inspiring enough for voters to weigh in.

Trump is out of line spewing hatred. What will sell to voters is a goodness platform. We need to get on with that, forging our fate.

Turn the page from a very ineffective waste of time and money, DNC! Build a platform for all.

There is much more under each branch, isn’t there? Sadly, no DNC.

In the meantime, it is time tomorrow to protest in the streets, June 14. Go out there and yell, as Jackson Brown sang, til you go down. Yes, lay down in their streets.

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