Tense confrontations between police and demonstrators in L.A. continued for a second day on Saturday, in response to operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents

Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.

“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,” Homan told Fox News.

His comments come after Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller railed against the protests, calling them an “insurrection” against the United States.

  • Drusas
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    1054 days ago

    “rioters and looters”

    These are just protests and there have been no reports of looting.

    • @crusa187@lemmy.ml
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      Just like during George Floyd protests, there will be undercover cops there smashing windows to enable these false narratives.

  • @WindyRebel@lemmy.world
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    My feeling is that if the people of CA don’t fight back with equal, brutal force, America is officially done and this will happen everywhere.

    I’m not sure what else one can do.

    • Fighting back is the only thing that works. Look at 2020. Fighting back effectively kept the number of Trump W’s in that time in the single digits.

      The absolute cowardice and cuckoldry the Democrats have shown isn’t a path to stopping fascism. Time to dust off your gear from 2019 folks.

      • Fingolfinz
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        124 days ago

        Liberals will always go for fascism over actual change because they make money off capitalism. It’s why the DNC just fucking destroys any chances of actual leftists from getting elected

      • @crusa187@lemmy.ml
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        Visionary battle plan of “sit back and do nothing, then they’ll find out!” (How controlled we are as opposition.)

        It’s a joke that is infinitely unfunny.

        • yes.

          Democrats, even in the minority, were highly effective at stopping Trump from getting almost anything done legislatively, and also were effective somewhat at curtailing his executive overreach.

          A major component of that was how they embraced the left, which was mostly focused on BLM, as a source of outside power. The inside outside power game can be highly effective when both parties understand their roles.

          2025 and Schumer and Jefferies decided on the strategy of curl up and die, after basically denying the base of the party a place at the podium last convention. There are still some good Democrats, but the rest need to embrace their base.

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            74 days ago

            I was just asking about the initial ‘W’, but thank you for elaborating anyway.

    • Nougat
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      I have to think that if anyone is going to fight fight, it’s Los Angeles.

      Get ready for the fight to come to your town.

      • Ebby
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        It feels dirty rooting for LA from the north bay but go LA! Grrrr…

        (We have a great sports rivalry in this state for those who need context) ;)

    • Ebby
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      Media attention benefits the Trump agenda and the point is to set off the powderkeg. There is no deescalation.

      To cause a riot is the point; that’s why punishment for objecting to agents was fortified as soon as the turd defiled the white house.

      Americans will die, but only those who oppose Trump’s agenda.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        There is no deescalation.

        Nor can there be deescalation with fascists. Trump is looking for a fight, but fundamentally there can be no way to stop him but a fight. Something something they came for the immigrants, and I ____ (fill in the blank).

      • Nougat
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        Americans will die, but only those who oppose Trump’s agenda.

        I wouldn’t be so sure about that.

        • Ebby
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          I guess I should have worded that better. The danger is to the citizens defending our immigrant community from ICE raids.

          Americans will die under Trump in other ways too like measles, lack of healthcare, food insecurity, pollution, violence, etc.

          • Nougat
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            That’s not what I was referring to.

            Resistance fighters.

  • Drusas
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    Homan also complained about backlash directed at ICE agents during his interview on Fox News. The border czar, when asked about Democrats who have called for ICE agents to work unmasked, said he was looking into what could be done to stop their criticism.

    “We’re asking the DOJ to look at these statements and see if there is something we can do,” Homan said.

    We’re living in a time where the highest policing authority in the nation is openly trying to subvert first amendment rights by charging elected officials with crimes for speaking out against authoritarianism. Great.

    • A masked policing agency isn’t anything but a cult motivated mob. They are no better no than the KKK. They are following orders they know the population will not accept. Therefore they have abandoned their oath to protect the populus, and chose to serve only the rich.

      Call me terrible, but the best thing we can do is tell them they will all serve life sentences for their actions when Trump leaves office. 100 year sentence for every ICE member that assists or assaults member of our community. If they are in a state that offers the death penalty, they should be able to choose it if they wish.

      • @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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        The best we can do is prematurely end their life and make anybody who continues this unlawful rampage fear for their life.

        Sorry. I’m generally pacifist, but peaceful discourse and verbal threats will not solve this.

      • @Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        A masked policing agency isn’t anything but a cult

        Eh, a lot of Mexican and central American police need to be masked some times or the cartels will murder there families, so there are some valid reasons. There hasn’t been any cases of ICE agents being targeted outside some possible “attacks” on social media as far as i know so they’ve got no excuse.

        • @SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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          Honestly, ICE are changing that by being malicious dipshits. Hopefully the good guys won’t do ‘guilty by association’, but I have a feeling that it will be difficult to keep ourselves from descending into madness.

          This sucks. 😩

  • @RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    I love that ICE is such a bunch of shriveled nutsacks that they have to send in Gary from Accounting to come bail their asses out.

  • They shot and killed college kids at Kent State for less. They maimed people at BLM protests and killed several, too. Those cowardly Conservatives will do anything to shut people up that rock the boat and threaten their power.

  • @GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social
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    Can people tell me why we keep using the stupid fucking “border czar” term? I want to know who the fuck these people are and what their actual titles are. It makes reading headlines such a fucking chore. I end up having to google the context of a headline like every 4th article.

    For those curious, Tom Homan’s actual title is White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations

    • @skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Because the constitution says we can’t call the president king, but if we name everyone in other positions “border king” “energy king” etc. in Russian, we can normalize the king concept. Maybe a shitty nod to Russia as well?

      Confounding that they are so willing to use a Russian term.

      Our government really wants us to be feudal, apparently.

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      “czars” are unaccountable and powerful. Thats why these public employees like the term. They should be called administrators or “public servants” because thats what they actually get a paycheck for, not for strutting around playing billy badass against American citizens.

      This particular borderbitch public servant should go sit his TSA self at an airport and shut his overfed piehole. Nobody cares what he thinks.

  • Fingolfinz
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    334 days ago

    I recommend getting a firearm and becoming competent with it sooner than later

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍
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      During his first term, Trump asked Mark Esper (then-head of the DoD) to use live ammo on protesters, and he declined to - Source

      That role is now filled by former Fox News host, Pete Hegseth.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
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    Gaining just a teensy tiny bit of faith in Americans, though I’m still flabbergasted that it took this long before non-cybertruck cars started burning.