Social ICE/deportation protests and riots megathread

[PainIsLIfe]

How should the police decide who’s papers they need to check?

You do know that police routinely ask for id when they encounter someone?

 

[PainIsLIfe]

What is Newsom wrong about on this? I personally don't like him at all, and Trump is somehow making him look like a genius right now. This is exactly what Bass is saying as well, and they have proof that the National Guard is currently doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. So why were they deployed to California? Why did Trump thank them for their help in quelling the protest before they even made it to California? The amount of chaos currently happening in LA is directly related to Trump's actions, he has created chaos for no reason other than to get people like you to support the BBB

The Guard is protecting s federal building and the federal officers inside it.

What are Newsome and Bass doing to make anyone feel safe?

 

[PainIsLIfe]

They going to kick him out the party if he keeps making sense.

 

[Hog-train]

This is fucked up if true.

 

[avenue94]

You do know that police routinely ask for id when they encounter someone?

Probably cause is a requirement to do so.

 

[DoctorTaco]

You do know that police routinely ask for id when they encounter someone?

Yes. When they have reasonable suspicion Someone has been involved in a crime

 

[Aurelian]

Can you name me one piece of legislation passed by Republicans within the past 50 years that ended up having a positive financial impact on anyone but the wealthiest of Americans?

Just one. And by all means, please include studies/data after the fact of the impact of said legislation.

I'd also like your comments on Republican spending, budgets and deficits, and how they compare to Democrats in that regard over the last 50 years.

Why would I care enough to do that?

(I don't remember the context of the conversation I was having for the comment you replied too.)

Whatever it was though I'm certain I wasn't defending Republicans so the question seems out of left field. Get it, left field.

 

[IDGETKTFO]

They going to kick him out the party if he keeps making sense.

Before i changed my party to republican, i voted for Fetterman. Its weird, i actually don't regret that vote. We just need to get rid of that PA Democrat Govenor.

 

[Darkballs]

Did you notice the graffiti on that federal building the troops are guarding? Ain't no more shit going on that building, its not getting burned in the middle of the night, and everyone inside know that they are safe. So F' inappropriate.

It was never in danger of getting burned down. It was literally surrounded by the LAPD with zero damage at the hight of the "riots."

I like how ever poster here from Los Angeles (I live 4 miles from the center of our "rebellion") consistently tell the room that it wasn't any worse than an NBA finals win. Yet will never triumph over the random twitter posts that people read of 30-second clips with no context.

The point is, if you think something this lame is worth sending in the Marines, then you have no excuse when any other administration does it back. Wanna have your little covid masks because you don't care about your fellow man? You've defied a lawful order and are now in rebellion. Send in the troops. Remember, you were the guys that shit your pants when the mere conspiracy theory suggested the feds were operating in TX to build secret FEMA camps. So I'm sure you'll be cool with troops hanging around for something like this.

And lets not forget about the cost. $154 million dollars spent by an administration that's determined to stop waste. Just to have a bunch of Marines stand post outside a federal building that's currently being ignored. The curfew was lifted. And it's right by a busy intersection across from the courhouse and LAPD HQ. Tens of thousands driving right by it today with the Marines doing fuck all except getting pissed, and not actually training.

Amazing job all around.

 

[MrShady]

This is fucked up if true.

Of course it's true. There are many like him.

That's what America does best. Abandon their allies, and play nice with the actual dictators and Taliban.



Are you even surprised anymore?

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

 

[Flower2dPeople]

 

[chardog]

It was never in danger of getting burned down. It was literally surrounded by the LAPD with zero damage at the hight of the "riots."

I like how ever poster here from Los Angeles (I live 4 miles from the center of our "rebellion") consistently tell the room that it wasn't any worse than an NBA finals win. Yet will never triumph over the random twitter posts that people read of 30-second clips with no context.

The point is, if you think something this lame is worth sending in the Marines, then you have no excuse when any other administration does it back. Wanna have your little covid masks because you don't care about your fellow man? You've defied a lawful order and are now in rebellion. Send in the troops. Remember, you were the guys that shit your pants when the mere conspiracy theory suggested the feds were operating in TX to build secret FEMA camps. So I'm sure you'll be cool with troops hanging around for something like this.

And lets not forget about the cost. $154 million dollars spent by an administration that's determined to stop waste. Just to have a bunch of Marines stand post outside a federal building that's currently being ignored. The curfew was lifted. And it's right by a busy intersection across from the courhouse and LAPD HQ. Tens of thousands driving right by it today with the Marines doing fuck all except getting pissed, and not actually training.

Amazing job all around.

You might not have noticed, but when you say it wasn’t bad and then acknowledged there was a curfew put in place……..

 

[Kassitus]

LOL!

I saw people on this board complaining about folks in California flying the Mexican flag. SMH.

Some added context, it was part of Mexico for about 30 years.

 

[cincymma79]

You might not have noticed, but when you say it wasn’t bad and then acknowledged there was a curfew put in place……..

Mostly peaceful fires

 

[PainIsLIfe]

Probably cause is a requirement to do so.

Then why act like its unheard of to show id?

 

[PainIsLIfe]

Yes. When they have reasonable suspicion Someone has been involved in a crime

A crime - Like illegally entering the country?

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Immigration raids in Los Angeles hit small business owners: 'It's worse than COVID'​

By Tim Reid and Kristina Cooke

• ICE raids hit Hispanic small businesses
• Street vendors, restaurant workers, too afraid to buy supplies
• Trump crackdown threatens local economies

LOS ANGELES, June 17 (Reuters) - Juan Ibarra stands outside his fruit and vegetable outlet in Los Angeles' vast fresh produce market, the place in the city center where Hispanic restaurateurs, street vendors and taco truck operators buy supplies every day.

On Monday morning, the usually bustling market was largely empty. Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials began conducting immigration raids more than a week ago, including at a textile factory two blocks away, Ibarra said business has virtually dried up.

His street vendor customers are at home in hiding, while restaurant workers are too scared to travel to the market to pick up supplies. Most of the market's 300 workers who are in the U.S. illegally have stopped showing up.

Ibarra, who pays $8,500 a month in rent for his outlet, which sells grapes, pineapples, melons, peaches, tomatoes and corn, usually takes in about $2,000 on a normal day. Now it's $300, if he's lucky. Shortly before he spoke to Reuters he had, for the first time since the ICE raids began, been forced to throw out rotten fruit. He has to pay a garbage company $70 a pallet to do that.

"It's pretty much a ghost town," Ibarra said. "It's almost COVID-like. People are scared. We can only last so long like this - a couple of months maybe."
Ibarra, 32, who was born in the U.S. to Mexican parents and is a U.S. citizen, is not alone in seeing President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants in the country illegally devastate his small business.

It's happening across Los Angeles and California, other business owners and experts say, and threatens to significantly damage the local economy.
A third of California's workers are immigrants and 40% of its entrepreneurs are foreign-born, according to the American Immigration Council.

The Trump administration, concerned about the economic impacts of his mass deportation policy, shifted its focus in recent days, telling ICE to pause raids on farms, restaurants and hotels.

The ICE raids triggered protests in Los Angeles. Those prompted Trump to send National Guard troops and U.S. Marines into the city, against the wishes of California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.

Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, said violent protesters in Los Angeles had created an unsafe environment for local businesses. "It’s the Democrat riots - not enforcement of federal immigration law - that is hurting small businesses," Jackson told Reuters.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion to assess the economic impacts of ICE's raids and to mobilize resources to help immigrant workers and their families.

"The ongoing immigration raids have created a chilling effect, with many families afraid to leave their homes to go to work or to support our beloved businesses," said Hilda Solis, the board's chair pro tem who co-sponsored the motion.

RESTAURANT SLUMP​

The recent shift in focus by Trump and ICE has been no help for Pedro Jimenez, 62, who has run and owned a Mexican restaurant in a largely working class, Hispanic neighborhood in Los Angeles for 24 years.

Many in his community are so scared of ICE they are staying home and have stopped frequenting his restaurant. Jimenez, who crossed into the U.S. illegally but received citizenship in 1987 after former Republican President Ronald Reagan signed legislation granting amnesty to many immigrants without legal status, said he's taking in $7,000 a week less than he was two weeks ago.

Last Friday and Saturday he closed at 5 p.m., rather than 9 p.m., because his restaurant was empty.
"This is really hurting everybody's business," he said. "It's terrible. It's worse than COVID."

Andrew Selee, president of the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute, said the Trump administration began its immigration crackdown by focusing on people with criminal convictions. But that has shifted to workplace raids in the past two weeks, he said.

"They are targeting the hard working immigrants who are most integrated in American society," Selee said.
"The more immigration enforcement is indiscriminate and broad, rather than targeted, the more it disrupts the American economy in very real ways."
Across Los Angeles, immigrants described hunkering down, some even skipping work, to avoid immigration enforcement.

Luis, 45, a Guatemalan hot dog vendor who asked to be identified only by his first name for fear of being targeted by ICE, said he showed up this weekend at the Santa Fe Springs swap meet - a flea market and music event. He was told by others that ICE officers had just been there.

He and other vendors without legal immigration status quickly left, he said.
"This has all been psychologically exhausting," he said. "I have to work to survive, but the rest of the time I stay inside."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/im...iness-owners-its-worse-than-covid-2025-06-17/

 

[PainIsLIfe]

It was never in danger of getting burned down. It was literally surrounded by the LAPD with zero damage at the hight of the "riots."

I like how ever poster here from Los Angeles (I live 4 miles from the center of our "rebellion") consistently tell the room that it wasn't any worse than an NBA finals win. Yet will never triumph over the random twitter posts that people read of 30-second clips with no context.

The point is, if you think something this lame is worth sending in the Marines, then you have no excuse when any other administration does it back. Wanna have your little covid masks because you don't care about your fellow man? You've defied a lawful order and are now in rebellion. Send in the troops. Remember, you were the guys that shit your pants when the mere conspiracy theory suggested the feds were operating in TX to build secret FEMA camps. So I'm sure you'll be cool with troops hanging around for something like this.

And lets not forget about the cost. $154 million dollars spent by an administration that's determined to stop waste. Just to have a bunch of Marines stand post outside a federal building that's currently being ignored. The curfew was lifted. And it's right by a busy intersection across from the courhouse and LAPD HQ. Tens of thousands driving right by it today with the Marines doing fuck all except getting pissed, and not actually training.

Amazing job all around.

It was surrounded by LAPD, but its covered in graffiti?





Then why do I keep seeing news feed on yahoo with protesters at the building? Why do the left keep getting their panties in a bunch and whining about Marines being "used against citizens"?

Your own arguments don't make any sense - "the Marines are violating their oath/being turn on citizens" vs " waste of money having Marines standing around a building that people ignore"


And WTF are you talking about with FEMA camps. There isn't a single post from PIL "shitting his pants" over FEMA camps. I don't think I even posted in that ridiculous thread.

 

[Confucamus]

It was never in danger of getting burned down. It was literally surrounded by the LAPD with zero damage at the hight of the "riots."

I like how ever poster here from Los Angeles (I live 4 miles from the center of our "rebellion") consistently tell the room that it wasn't any worse than an NBA finals win. Yet will never triumph over the random twitter posts that people read of 30-second clips with no context.

So your NBA Finals celebrations also had mobs of people burning private property and trying to murder police officers while flying the flag of a foreign country? Can you please show us an NBA Finals celebration that involved mobs of people trapping police under a highway overpass by raining boulders down from the overpass? You're Mr. Los Angeles so I assume that will be easy for you since it's your educated assessment.