MicroWaveJun 8, 2025

Trump border czar says National Guard will head to LA to fight anti-ICE protests

https://lemmy.world/post/31003812

Trump border czar says National Guard will head to LA to fight anti-ICE protests - Lemmy.World

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.

Show threadDrusasJun 8, 2025

"rioters and looters"

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

Show threaddisguy_ovaheaJun 8, 2025

I watched most of it on TikTok live since Friday. It began with a hit and run of a protestor by ICE.

I definitely didn’t see looters, but protestors were throwing rocks, cinder blocks, and M80s, and lighting cars on fire. That prompted ICE to don riot gear and deploy tear gas.

This is a bad idea. We don’t have the numbers to get baited into escalation. This will only embolden fascism.

Edit: Please share this.

Show threadAmnesigenicJun 8, 2025
Fascism will escalate regardless, in the absence of real resistance they will simply lie to justify doing what they were always planning to do anyway, passively accepting their actions will do nothing to help, resistance is the only correct answer and it will absolutely have to be violent
Show threaddisguy_ovaheaJun 8, 2025

I watched it happen all day yesterday. Protesters are throwing rocks through windows of vehicles as they drive by. They’re lighting M80s and throwing them at the agents.

The VAST majority is peaceful. Many are throwing rocks. A few are taking even further.

I get that they’re pissed, but this isn’t the solution. Refusing to walk into a trap isn’t cowardice, it’s strategy.

Show threadAmnesigenicJun 8, 2025
You watched and learned nothing, resistance isn’t a trap and your passivity won’t save you
Show threaddisguy_ovaheaJun 8, 2025
I never said resistance was a trap. I said violent resistance was. Violence will hand Trump his Reichstag Fire on a silver platter.
Show threadAmnesigenic
Nonviolent “resistance” is worthless, idk what part of “they will make shit up anyway” you’re not understanding
Jun 8, 2025 at 8:23pmWeb
Show threaddisguy_ovaheaJun 8, 2025

Trump is itching to enact the Insurrection Act. That will make growing our numbers far more difficult. Meanwhile, you’re advocating losing resisters to incarceration, scaring people back into their homes due to unsafe protest conditions, while giving Trump the justification he needs to strip our rights.

Do you always think with your feelings? You should try your brain. Logic and strategy know no cowardice. They only know how to outthink the opposition.