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The Los Angeles migrant riots are the result of Biden's biggest mistake

The Los Angeles migrant riots are the result of Biden's biggest mistake

Russia Today8 hours ago

The epic battle between illegal immigrants and law enforcement has proven beyond a doubt that the Biden administration committed a grave mistake when it opened up America's borders to a free for all.
Perhaps if the anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles were seen waving the American flag as they struggled against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) patrols, they would have had a moral leg to stand on. Their major PR flaw was that they left 'Old Glory' at home. Missing the irony, they chose to hoist the Mexican flag above the smoldering LA landscape, showing support for the country they escaped from. There were even surreal incidents of the American flag being burned. That's where things took a terrible turn for the Democrats as the Republicans seized the moral high ground.
'Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers, while one half of America's political leadership has decided that border enforcement is evil,' Vice President J.D. Vance said in a statement on the weekend.
'Simple message to illegal aliens: leave now. You broke our laws to get here and you will be deported,' Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) wrote on X.
Fox News late-night host Greg Gutfeld perhaps summed up the insanity best when he wrote on X, 'Trying to find a country to establish a sanctuary city where I can burn shit while waving my native country's flag, while violently demanding they don't send me back to the native country of the flag I am waving. Is there a country I can terrorize, then demand sympathy when they want me to leave?'
The fireworks began on the morning of June 6 in Paramount, California when a Trump-authorized immigration raid was conducted within the Los Angeles Fashion District; two other raids occurred at a clothing wholesaler and a Home Depot. Protests erupted after over 100 people were arrested at the three locations. By nightfall, the Los Angeles police had authorized the use of less lethal munitions as the city was placed on tactical alert.
As the violence spiraled out of control and the Los Angeles police chief admitted that his forces were 'overwhelmed,' Trump moved to nationalize the National Guard. This marked the first time a president had deployed a National Guard force without approval from a state's governor since the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965. He also outlawed the use of masks at the protests – 'why do they need them?' – as 500 Marines were placed on standby.
Predictably, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who accused Washington of overseeing a 'manufactured crisis,' went on to defend the illegal immigrants, calling Trump's federalization of the National Guard 'purposefully inflammatory.' LA Mayor Karen Bass was of the same opinion when it came to Trump's harsh crackdown on illegals. 'These tactics sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city,' she said Friday. 'We will not stand for this.'
Trump was having none of it. In a post on Truth Social on Monday, the US leader demanded apologies from the California governor and Los Angeles mayor: 'Governor Gavin Newscum and 'Mayor' Bass should apologize to the people of Los Angeles for the absolutely horrible job that they have done, and this now includes the ongoing L.A. riots. These are not protesters, they are troublemakers and insurrectionists.'
Trump is right, Newsom and Bass are clearly in the wrong, and this grand failure will undoubtedly play into the Republican Party's political fortunes if things continue the way they are. It's no secret that Democrats are fleeing California in droves, sick and tired of failed policies that have placed them and their families in a constant state of danger. Let's face it, once the political fallout reaches the Democratic voters' neighborhoods, it's game over.
Although few voters on the left would admit it, thousands of erstwhile Biden supporters are coming around to the conclusion that many of the new arrivals are simply criminals and cold-blooded killers who should never have been granted entry into 'sanctuary cities' in the first place. Instead of keeping the asylum seekers on the Mexican side of the border, as the Trump administration had achieved, the Biden administration allowed millions of illegals into the country, where it has become almost impossible to track each individual case as initially intended. Now, every murder committed at the hands of an illegal immigrant will be additional ammunition for the Republican ticket.
Incidentally, the mayhem that quickly ensued in Los Angeles brings to mind the violence that overwhelmed four blocks of Seattle, Washington during the 'summer of love' 2020 at the 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone' (CHAZ). Here, Antifa insurgents thought they could find peace and harmony in a state of anarchy – without order, without restraint, without any government oversight. After several days of living in this world of youthful delusion, after the predictable violence and killings began to occur as night fell, many of the rebels quickly gave up their doomed experiment and called the police for protection.
Yet even to this day, there are millions of liberals who have come to associate law and order with outright tyranny, and those who would protect life and liberty with villainy. In their world, the members of law enforcement - while admitting to the inevitable bad apples in the ranks - have come to represent the worst form of oppression. At the same time, they willfully place an inordinate amount of trust and faith in the intentions of complete strangers who suddenly showed up on America's doorstep without invitation (many of whom are genuinely worthy of care and compassion). Thus, the Democratic leadership has relinquished their primary responsibilities to the American people – their political constituents – who it is their absolute duty to defend.
How long will the Democrats continue to take the side of chaos and lawlessness over law enforcement?

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