TACO TRUMP now making exceptions to deportations:: “People who’ve been here for 20-25 years and worked great and the owner of the farm loves them and you're supposed to throw them out? We can't do that to our farmers and leisure, too, hotels. We’ll have to use common sense on that.”
The head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal operations apparently resigned rather than obey an order to fire ICE officers who weren’t hitting arrest quotas.
Donald Trump is trying to justify federal agents handcuffing California Senator Alex Padilla by suggesting that he “looked like an illegal,” his leading biographer has revealed.
Karoline Leavitt @PressSec: “Democrat Senator Alex Padilla should be ashamed of his childish behavior today. He crashed the middle of an official press conference being held by a cabinet secretary, recklessly lunged toward the podium where @Sec_Noem was speaking, and then refused to leave the room and follow the directions of law enforcement officers.”
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The White House is demanding that ICE get deportations up, and ordering any career law enforcement who objects to get the hell out of the way.
The head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal operations apparently resigned rather than obey an order to fire ICE officers who weren’t hitting arrest quotas!
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— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) Jun 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
That helps explain why Trump picked this fight in California, not just to be a bully but to force a showdown of values, to bring California to heel, or least to score points by trying. He authorized aggressive immigration raids in Los Angeles. Predictably, those neighborhoods where the raids occurred were shocked and frightened, and in many cases angry. Residents protested, legally and peacefully at first, then with mounting fury. LAPD dispersed the crowd on Friday night. It was akin to a championship celebration that got out of hand.
On Saturday morning, the same streets that had been tense the night before woke to calm. Diners lined up at the Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles for breakfast. The March of Dimes held a rally across from City Hall. LAPD officers had a booth; one joined the line dancing. Children played cornhole and munched on crushed ice.
That felt like life returning to normal. But Trump could not allow Los Angeles and California to right itself, because to allow California to persevere is to risk allowing its values to prevail. Instead, Trump railed at Newsom and Bass and directed the National Guard to deploy in the city.
That gave protesters another reason to be angry, and by Sunday afternoon, a much-larger demonstration erupted and then cascaded into the night, with scattered acts of violence. Still not satisfied, Trump sent active-duty Marines.
And so, this government-induced unrest continues. If the goal is to calm Los Angeles, the solution would be simple: Withdraw federal forces and let the LAPD and Sheriff’s Department do their jobs.
But that’s not the goal. The unrest goes on because Trump needs it to. He’s not just fighting for deportations. He’s fighting for his values in a state that rejects them.
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