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President Trump sends National Guard as violent anti-ICE riots erupt in Los Angeles
2025-06-08
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[FoxNews] The National Guard was deployed to Los Angeles County as anti-ICE protests continued to escalate Saturday afternoon and into the evening.

The unrest is centered in the city of Paramount, California, where protesters clashed with federal authorities, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who were allegedly trying to conduct a raid at a local business.

Update from Zero Hedge at 9:20 a.m. ET gives us provenance — taking us beyond What to Who, courtesy of Skidmark:
Riots Erupt At LA ICE Facility As Mexican BLM Clone Unleashes Color Revolution Operation
After failing to ignite multiple color revolution-style protests earlier this year targeting Elon Musk and President Trump over DOGE-related efforts, Democrats and their rogue NGO network appear to be at it again—this time staging a new protest movement against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Los Angeles, hoping to spark another 'Summer of Love' nationwide riots like in 2020, when leftists used the useful idiots behind the Marxist group Black Lives Matter as a vehicle for chaos.

With BLM kicked to the curb by the Democratic Party, the Mexican version of BLM - Unión del Barrio - whose manifesto is filled with explicit Marxist and communist rhetoric—has become the next group Democrats will use as useful idiots.

On Friday, Unión del Barrio issued a call to action for the crazies on Facebook to stage a protest against "ICE Terrorists" in Downtown LA:

Emergency Protest TODAY in LA! 4:30PM

535 Alameda St LA, CA 90012

Join us to denounce ICE terrorizing our communities! Over 200 people are currently being held at this location in the basement of the courthouse. Today, there has been ICE activity all over the LA area.

LA EMERGENCY PROTEST!

535 Alameda St, LA, CA 90012

Friday, June 6, 2025 4:30PM

STOP DEPORTATIONS NOW!

ICE has hundreds of members of our community kidnapped and is holding them at this location.

According to journalist Andy Ngo, multiple far-left groups, one being Antifa, amplified Unión del Barrio's "emergency protest" at the "basement of the courthouse."

Chaos shortly erupted on the streets outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and United States Courthouse.

A quick review of Unión del Barrio's political program is absolutely alarming - and basically the Mexican version of BLM...

Core Beliefs & Goals:

  • Opposition to U.S. imperialism, capitalism, and settler colonialism

  • Advocacy for immigrant rights, against deportations and ICE raids

  • Promotion of community organizing in working-class Latino neighborhoods

  • Support for socialist and pan-Latino unity movements

  • Education and youth empowerment through political study and activism

Action campaigns:

  • Organizes rallies and protests, particularly against ICE and border enforcement

  • Runs community education programs like Escuelita Aztlán

  • Collaborates with other radical left-wing organizations in the U.S. and Latin America

  • Frequently involved in May Day demonstrations, anti-police protests, and immigration activism

What's clear is that Unión del Barrio operates on a Marxist-Leninist and decolonial framework that wants to destroy the West and capitalism, or more importantly, destroy America. In other words, the org is just the Mexican version of BLM.
Posted by:badanov

#11  Whoops! Via Instapundit, Data Republican is indeed also on it. Army of Davids stuff!

Posted by: trailing wife   2025-06-08 09:25  

#10  As so often, NN2N1, you guide my thinking.

Really good find, Mercutio. DOGE’s next round of searches becomes apparent, unless DataRepublican or one of the other volunteers is already on it.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-06-08 09:22  

#9  "WE" are not funding them. Some corrupt bureaucrat is.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed   2025-06-08 09:20  

#8  Actually, we are funding them
Posted by: Mercutio   2025-06-08 09:16  

#7  My intuition-based guess for NN2N1, based on what I've absorbed here at Rantburg, worth what you paid for it — I have no arguments to support my feelings here:

Yes, the Civil War is officially begun, now that the Black Bloc-ers are pivoting away from Jew hate on campus — the semester is over and everyone has gone home for the summer, and anyway, President Trump is driving strong punishments for all involved, particularly the universities.

I don’t think there will be mass round-ups of gun owners and other free thinkers in Blue States, not with strongly active Trump nominees sitting in Homeland Security, ICE, the Justice Department and the FBI. Or even harassment, after the first attempts are smashed down.

I think there will be more riots like this — in Blue States, after attempts in Red States are shut down hard — because Black Bloc types only have one response when switched on. So the feds will quickly have a lovely collection in their cells to trace connections from — no doubt the latest upgrade of DoD’s Palantir (that’s the one, right?) will come in very handy, indeed.

It may be that after deeply angering President Trump with their induced Jew hate, this will turn out to be the step too far that gets the entire ecosystem shut down, all the way back to the rich Progressives (and China, and maybe Iran and some rich Sunni Arab jihad lovers) financing the thing. Or even if it is only strongly cut back, like an overgrown hedge, that would be very helpful as a first step.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-06-08 09:16  

#6  Natalie Winters is reporting on X that ActBlue is funding the rioters.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed   2025-06-08 08:47  

#5  
Has the Civil War / Rebellion between USA MAGA vs Illegals, Liberal, Socialists, & Democrats started?

Will Blue State run politicians start, raiding Conservative (MAGA) registered gun owners and voters, to be held without trial?

Will there be a major increase in Domestic Terrorism in the coming months? Like the Teen who was stopped, just before he executed his plan for a mass shooting at the 3 Rivers Mall in Washington state. Which also involved using an IED chlorine bomb.

Only time will tell.
Posted by: NN2N1   2025-06-08 07:19  

#4  Trump might tell the International Olympic committee to be prepared for an alternative site for 2028.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2025-06-08 07:12  

#3  Patel promises FBI coming for anyone assaulting cops as Los Angeles erupts over ICE raids
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-06-08 05:03  

#2  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that 'active duty Marines' were on 'high alert' as roving mobs of violent thugs created havoc on the streets of Los Angeles.
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-06-08 04:53  

#1  What's the ROE?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2025-06-08 04:20  

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