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Democrats don’t seem to care about the criminal rap sheets of the illegal migrants ICE has been rounding up in Los Angeles. Apparently, convicted sex abusers, drug dealers and gang members all still somehow have a sacrosanct right to stay in the United States.
And ICE efforts to take them into custody, per Mayor Karen Bass on Friday, “sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city.”
(Funny: Andrew Cuomo’s statement the same day here in NYC also complained that ICE’s “sow terror in neighborhoods” and “erode the sense of safety for all residents.” Maybe they’ve hired the same consultants?)
Thing is, criminals sow terror every day, and ICE’s LA targets had done hard time for crimes like cocaine trafficking, willful cruelty to a child and sexual battery.
Many of the detainees also had gang affiliations and/or convictions for assault.
And, again, none were in this country legally; they’re the kind of menaces Americans most have in mind when they tell pollsters they support Team Trump’s deportation efforts.
Yet Bass says enforcing the law is too dangerous: “If you dial back time and go to Friday, if immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder that went on,” she blathered Monday on CNN.
“People in the city have a rapid-response network,” she explained. “If they see ICE, they go out and they protest” — though most people wouldn’t use “protest” to describe lighting cars on fire, shooting commercial fireworks at cops or throwing Molotov cocktails at federal agents.
As for that “rapid-response network”: Much of it consists of “activist” groups like the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which has also been organizing anti-Israel violence of late and has received major funding from socialist billionaire Neville Singham, who has well-documented ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
It’s not so strange that the rioters have been waving Mexican and Palestinian flags, after all.
Then again, another major protest-pusher is funded by US governments: CHIRLA, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights/Los Angeles, has gotten tens of millions from the state of California, as well as smaller grants from the Biden Department of Homeland Security.
Indeed, a Friday presser by CHIRLA honcho Angelica Salas calling for broad demonstrations against ICE may have been the main signal for the weekend riots to begin.
But California Democrats would much rather pretend it’s all Trump’s fault for sending in the National Guard: Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted, “The federal government is sowing chaos so they can have an excuse to escalate.”
Ex-Veep Kamala Harris agreed, calling the president’s actions a “dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos.”
Again with the shared scripts.
Americans have every right to expect their safety to be the top for their elected officials, but that’s not how California politicians (nor all too many in New York) see their jobs.
Forget about coordinating with the feds to protect the innocent: Far more important to answer to the far-left professional “activists” and coordinate your anti-Trump talking points while you protect violent criminals from the awful injustice of being sent back to their home countries.
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