Immigration and customs enforcement measures were part of Trump’s stricter policies of arresting, arresting and enforcing undocumented immigrants that encouraged opposition to immigrant enclaves.
Ice attack protests become violent as demonstrators clash with police
Violence erupted after hundreds of protesters gathered to protest the city’s ice attacks.
- The riot device Los Angeles police have confronted concrete hurling protesters against federal immigration enforcement.
- Immigration and customs enforcement arrested 118 undocumented immigrants per week, including five gang members.
Federal immigration agents helmeted police in riot gear, concrete hurling protesters clashed in a violent brawl in Los Angeles.
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, some protesters threw large chunks of broken concrete at officers, cutting tires and tainted the building.
Police declared an illegal rally and responded by firing tear gas, pepper spray and flash van concussions at the crowd.
The clash marked one of the most serious conflicts between agents implementing Trump’s orders on mass arrests and deportation, and local officials opposed to stricter enforcement measures.
The Department of Homeland Security said 118 non-documented immigrants were arrested a week in Los Angeles, including five gang members and other suspects with criminal records in smuggling, drug trafficking and assault.
Todd Lyon, acting director of U.S. immigration and customs executive officer, said agents went up for several hours on June 6th as more than 1,000 mobs surrounded the federal building.
“What happened in Los Angeles yesterday was appalling,” the Lions said in a June 7 statement.
The Lions, who vowed to continue enforcement action, accused Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of taking “a disruption and lawless aspect of law enforcement.”
Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said urban policy since 1979 prevented officers from launching police actions based on attempts to determine the status of people’s immigrants. He said the department “will not support or participate in large-scale deportation of any kind.”
“I know these activities are causing anxiety for many Angeleno, so I want to make that clear. LAPD is not involved in enforcing citizen immigrants,” McDonnell said in a statement.
Bass said she was “deeply angered” about the enforcement action.s And she coordinates with immigration rights organizations.
“These tactics inhale fear into our community and disrupt the fundamental principles of safety in our cities,” Bass said in a statement. “We don’t support this.”
“We do,” FBI director Kash Patel replied on social media on June 7th.
One of the skirmishes was involved in the arrest of union leader David Fuerta, president of the California Coalition of Service Employees.
The union said Fuerta was arrested “while exercising his initial right to revise and document law enforcement activities.”
“We all have to resist this insanity because this is not justice,” Fuerta said in a social media post. “This is fraudulent.”
US lawyer Bill Essayli accused Fuerta of deliberately obstructing federal agents at work. Huerta will be arrested in federal court on June 9th, Essayli said.
“Let me be clear: I don’t care who you are. If you block a federal agent, you will be arrested and charged,” the essay said in a social media post. “No one has the right to assault, obstruct or obstruct federal authorities performing their duties.”
Federal authorities said enforcement action would continue despite protests in Los Angeles and across the country.
ICE announced on June 6 that 1,500 undocumented immigrants had been arrested in Massachusetts during a month’s Patriot operation.
