It all started when White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller demanded the abduction of 3000 people a day. 3000 immigrants. A number that is staggering by any metric. If this policy is allowed to proceed, entire communities will be destroyed. Families will be ripped apart. And an entire generation will be traumatized beyond repair. It will also decimate the US economy which is driven by immigrant labour.

As a result of this barbarous demand, a vibrant immigrant community in Los Angeles was turned into a war zone. Jackbooted, heavily armed and masked thugs flooded the streets, attacking anyone they encountered. But they weren’t prepared for the neighborhood to stand its ground. Hundreds of people overwhelmed ICE. That’s when the LAPD came in with unhinged violence and brutality.

The LAPD, arguably the most corrupt and violent police force in the nation, pepper sprayed babies, beat women and choked a grandmother to unconsciousness in front of her family. Dozens of people had to be taken to hospital for treatment. They even shot journalist Lauren Tomasi with a rubber bullet as she was reporting in front of a camera.

But all of this was by design. The Trump regime had been looking for a reason to invoke the Insurrection Act, and it found one. Even though the vast majority of the protests in LA are peaceful, the videos and photos of some people waving Mexican flags, wearing keffiyehs or setting automobiles alight are all the regime needs as a justification for its brutality. Now it can say “look, we told you this was an invasion.” And this manufactured threat becomes the pretext they desire for the final descent into authoritarian fascism.

What happens in LA could determine whether Americans can recover any of their battered, lost or stolen civil liberties. But as I write, there are 500 Marines standing by on the President’s order to invade Los Angeles.

*Photo Homeland Security smashing a woman’s skull and ribcage with the butt of a shotgun.

Kenn Orphan, June 2025