Do you know what demographic group sports the highest approval rating for President Donald Trump? Hispanics at 63%.
As you watch Los Angeles burn again because of the latest round of riots there, keep that stunning statistic in mind.
Rioters are angry that Trump is enforcing immigration law by deporting people who are here illegally, specifically with raids in LA targeting businesses where illegals are suspected of working. “This is about enforcing the law,” noted border czar Tom Homan, “and again, we’re not going to apologize for doing it.”
On the one hand, it’s easy to see why rioters are upset. For decades, they’ve gotten away with illegal border crossings. Millions of illegal aliens reside in America and have for a long time, often living off the fat of the U.S. taxpayer. Why, they’re asking, is the government only now cracking down on them?
On the other hand, it’s astounding that these clowns, waving foreign flags and destroying taxpayer property, think they’re entitled to all the benefits of the U.S. without having any allegiance to the U.S.
Besides, Trump campaigned and won on promises to deport illegals. Enforcement wasn’t a sudden or unexpected development.
Violent mobs pelted police and their vehicles with various objects (like bottles, rocks, and chunks of concrete) before vandalizing vehicles or lighting them on fire. It’s a sickening display of lawless destruction and violence.
As Vice President JD Vance artfully put it, “One of the main technical issues in the immigration judicial battles is whether [Joe] Biden’s border crisis counted as an ‘invasion.’ So now we have foreign nationals with no legal right to be in the country waving foreign flags and assaulting law enforcement. If only we had a good word for that…”
Yet there are Leftmedia outlets and Democrats once again calling the rioters “mostly peaceful,” just like they did five years ago while BLM thugs burned American cities after making a martyr out of George Floyd. And that’s why we worry this may be the opening salvo in another summer of rage.
CNN: “There’s unrest. … There’s protest — uh, lawful protest, which is allowed in this country. There is some unrest.”
ABC: “It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation.”
Cory Booker: “The reality is we see peaceful protests launching in Los Angeles…”
Kamala Harris: “Demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful.” She supports the millions of Americans who are standing up to protect our most fundamental rights and freedoms” (to cross the border illegally?). By contrast, she added, law enforcement is “part of the Trump Administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division.”
You get the idea.
Another obnoxious headline was this from The New York Times: “The Mexican Flag Becomes a Potent L.A. Protest Symbol.” The subtitle unintentionally makes a connection: “Trump officials have cast demonstrators waving the Mexican flag as insurrectionists, but for many protesters who are Mexican American, the flag represents pride in their heritage.”
Trump protesters (i.e., “insurrectionists”), some of whom violently clashed with police on January 6, waved a lot of flags, too. I can’t remember a single time the media approvingly called those flags “potent protest symbols.”
This time, Democrats and the media aren’t nearly as upset about the rioters as they are that Trump called in the National Guard — which is usually a governor’s job — to quell the uprising. According to The Washington Times, “Trump has the authority to mobilize troops under Title 10, a federal law that places the president above governors in the chain of command for the National Guard.”
Nevertheless, here’s The New York Times’s editorial board: “Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency.”
Likewise, California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom is fit to be tied, not over the riots but over Trump’s National Guard move, which he called “purposefully inflammatory.” He warned that Trump is “putting fuel on this fire” with an “illegal and immoral” order. He also called it “unconstitutional,” as if he’s ever truly cared about that musty old parchment.
“We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved,” Newsom asserted. He means the Guard order, of course, but he could just as well be talking about the broader policy of law enforcement against illegal immigration, which Newsom doesn’t like or want. “This is a serious breach of state sovereignty,” Newsom added, “inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.”
He keeps using the words “fire” and “inflame,” which is awfully ironic given what the rioters are doing to his sanctuary state, which breaches federal authority.
Homan warned that “anybody” would be arrested for obstructing immigration enforcement, which also set Newsom off. “Come after me,” the governor huffed. “Arrest me. Let’s just get it over with, tough guy. I don’t give a damn.”
He clearly doesn’t.
As Trump posted on social media, “If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!”
Notably, Mayor Bass was actually in LA as the fires started this time, unlike her trip to Ghana when the wildfires got going in January. Not that her presence makes any difference. In fact, as long as Democrats are in charge, the lawlessness will proceed apace.
