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Saturday, June 7, 2025

Feds mobilize the National Guard as riots over immigration raids wreak havoc on LA

 Protests over federal immigration raids continued to wreak havoc on Los Angeles Saturday with agents wearing riot gear reportedly using flash-bang grenades to clear crowds — as the federal government moves to mobilize the National Guard after claiming LAPD took two hours to respond.

“We’re going to bring the National Guard in tonight. We’re going to continue doing out job. We’re going to push back on these people and we’re going to enforce the law,” Tom Homan, Acting Director of US Immigration and Custom Enforcement, said on Fox News, Saturday.

A protester adds fuel to a fire during an immigration raid in Los Angeles.
A protester places debris in a fire as Border Patrol personnel in riot gear and gas masks stand guard outside an industrial park in the Paramount section of Los Angeles, on Saturday.AP

Images and video showed a chaotic scene on Saturday as hundreds of protestors filled the streets and clashed with federal agents in riot gear attempting to impede apprehensions by Border Patrol in Paramount, California, near a Home Depot.

The dystopian scene showed the heavily armored agents firing teargas cannisters in order to disperse demonstrators who raged for hours on Saturday in a messy and tumultuous street takeover.

One violent protestor in a face-covering helmet hurled rocks at the windows of cars right outside the super store — cracking some Border Patrol pick-up trucks in the windshield, according to viral video.

Federal agents clash with protesters during an ICE raid.
A protestor appears to kick a teargas cannister across the Paramount, California street back at a federal agents, on Saturday.ALLISON DINNER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

Video circulating online showed an American flag on a fire in the middle of the street across from the home improvement store which was mired by demonstrators, Saturday.

Other protestors during the day stood in front of a federal bus to stop in from carrying off alleged illegal immigrants, video on social media showed.

Violent protests began on Friday with federal agents have raided multiple workplaces in LA’s fashion district and other locations, with the conflagrations continuing at the Paramount Home Depot Saturday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.

Federal agents and protesters clashing after an ICE raid.
Border Patrol agents were armed in riot gear as they were met with intense and violent resistance from LA County locals.ALLISON DINNER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

The Trump Administration ripped lefty Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass after a violent mob swarmed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers conducting immigration raids in the city — while the Department of Homeland Security claimed Saturday local cops waited two hours to help push back the agitators.

Lefty pols like Bass are “villainiz[ing] and demoniz[ing ] ICE law enforcement,” leading to the violence that saw roughly 1,000 agitators attack law enforcement officers, deface buildings, slash tires and committing other crimes, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

Graffiti on a building reading "Chinga," "Fuck ICE," "Kill ICE," and an anarchistic symbol.
ICE agents who’ve been rounding illegal immigrants in Los Angeles have become the subject of vile graffiti in the city’s downtown.DHS.Gov

“The violent targeting of law enforcement in Los Angeles by lawless rioters is despicable, and Mayor Bass and [California] Governor [Gavin] Newsom must call for it to end,” she added in a statement Saturday.

“The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line to protect and defend the lives of American citizens.”

There’s been a 413% increase in assaults on ICE agents since President Trump took office in January, compared to the same period last year, McLaughlin said.

Graffiti reading "Fuck ICE" on a fence.
Roughly 1,000 rioters on Friday surrounded a federal law enforcement building in Los Angeles and assaulted ICE officers, slashed tires and defaced buildings, the feds said.DHS.Gov

Images released by DHS Saturday show parts of downtown Los Angeles covered in vulgar graffiti, including “F–K ICE” and “KILL ICE” spray-painted on fences and buildings — as well as a flyer handed out by the Communist group RefuseFacism.org saying “The Trump Fascist Regime MUST GO NOW!!!”

Helmeted LAPD cops in riot gear faced off Friday evening with protestors after a day of federal immigration raids in the city. At least 44 people were arrested.

The Los Angeles Police Department did not return messages.

Mayor Karen Bass speaking at a luncheon.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called rioters “despicable” in a statement Saturday.Getty Images
Tricia McLaughlin speaking at a news conference.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin blamed Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom.AP

New York Mayoral candidate and former-governor Andrew Cuomo weighed in on the ICE raids and the protests in both Los Angeles and New York on Saturday.

“The recent ICE crackdowns in Los Angeles and New York City are a deeply troubling escalation in immigration enforcement tactics that undermine community trust and the principles of due process,” Cuomo said in a statement.

“I believe in upholding the rule of law and maintaining secure borders, but these operations — marked by military-style raids, the use of flash-bang grenades, and the detention of individuals, including those attempting to document the events — cross a line into cruelty and unnecessary fear mongering,” Cuomo said in the statement.

Hundreds of migrants, including children, were detained by ICE agents Friday, the ACLU said.

The DHS, however, said operations in LA this week have resulted in the arrest of 118 illegal migrants – including five gang members and others with past criminal charges that include drug trafficking, assault, cruelty to children and robbery, according to the DHS.

Bass condemned the ICE raids in a statement, saying these “tactics sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city… We will not stand for this.”

Neither the Department of Homeland Security nor the California National Guard responded to The Post’s request for comment.

https://nypost.com/2025/06/07/us-news/dhs-claims-lapd-waited-2-hours-to-respond-to-protests-over-immigration-raids/

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Texas Yanks Major Perk From Illegal Aliens - After Pioneering It 24 Years Ago

 Twenty-four years after being the first in the nation to roll it out, a major perk for illegal aliens in Texas has vanished after the Trump administration filed a federal lawsuit to stop it and the Lone Star State's attorney general quickly agreed with the White House stance. Specifically, illegals will no longer be charged the in-state rate for college tuition.  

The end came quite suddenly. Within hours of the US Department of Justice filing a complaint in the Northern District of Texas, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion asking Judge Reed O'Connor to rule in favor of the DOJ and declare in-state tuition for illegals unconstitutional. On the same day, O'Connor issued an order declaring that discounts favoring illegal aliens over non-Texan American citizens -- in contradiction of federal law -- violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, and permanently blocking Texas from giving such discounts.

Starting this fall, it will cost illegal aliens an extra $28,000 a year to attend Texas A&M University's College Station campus

Paxton, who's mounting a 2026 challenge of incumbent Republican John Cornyn to represent Texas in the United States Senate, raced to take credit for the outcome: 

“Today, I entered a joint motion along with the Trump Administration opposing a law that unconstitutionally and unlawfully gave benefits to illegal aliens that were not available to American citizens. Ending this discriminatory and un-American provision is a major victory for Texas.” 

In 2001, Texas became the first state to offer in-state tuition to illegals. Back then, Democrats had a slim majority in the state House, but the "Texas Dream Act" had bipartisan support, with only four of 181 legislators voting against it. Republicans bought into the idea that better-educated illegals would bolster the state's labor force and its economy, and then-Governor Rick Perry gave full support -- a stance he had to defend at a Republican debate during his failed 2012 presidential campaign. While this clip stops short, the audience answered with a mix of vigorous applause and hearty boos:

Since then, more than 20 other states created their own such rules. The tide is now clearly turning. In February, Florida's legislature eliminated a 10-year-old law granting in-state tuition to illegals who attended a Florida high school for three consecutive years before graduating. A bill that would have repealed the practice made it out of a Texas Senate committee earlier this year, but didn't have enough strength to be brought to the full Senate vote. That's all moot now. 

For the 2024-25 academic year, in-state tuition discount saved a student attending Texas A&M University in College Station $27,894 a year, and the discount at the University of Texas at Austin was worth $33,220 a year, to take just two examples from the state's sprawling higher education system.  

“Under federal law, schools cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to U.S. citizens,” said US Attorney General Pam Bondi in a statement. “The Justice Department will relentlessly fight to vindicate federal law and ensure that U.S. citizens are not treated like second-class citizens anywhere in the country.” 

While the rules vary depending on the student's exact circumstances and status under DACA, about 30 states provide some level of in-state-tuition access for illegals. According to the Higher Ed Immigration Portal, the most freewheeling states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.  

So, Ms. Bondi -- who's next? 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-yanks-major-perk-illegal-aliens-after-pioneering-it-24-years-ago

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Patel Announces New Discovery That Could Finally Take Fauci Down

 Via VigilantFox.com

FBI Director Kash Patel sat down with Joe Rogan in Austin, Texas, where he dropped a series of revelations about the Bureau’s ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, including a promise to release jail cell surveillance footage and newly uncovered evidence that could implicate Anthony Fauci.

Kash Patel didn’t waste any time. He opened with a stat that most Americans have probably never heard—and it was a big one.

During Trump’s first term, Patel was in charge of counterterrorism for the White House and National Security Council. In that role, he helped lead one of the administration’s most overlooked achievements.

“Hostages, we can talk about that forever too,” Patel said. “Counterterrorism was a big portfolio, I ran it for the White House and National Security Council in the first Trump administration.”

Then he dropped the number: “We brought home—people don’t know this—President Trump in his first term, brought home and rescued over 50 hostages and detainees from around the world.” He added, “That’s more than every president before him combined.”

Rogan looked stunned. “Wow,” he said.

Patel explained that hardly anyone knows these rescues even happened. The missions weren’t covered in the headlines, and the stories of families being reunited after dangerous operations in places like Africa and the Middle East were mostly ignored.

“Did you hear about the successes of reuniting families with lost loved ones from Africa or the Middle East?” he asked.

He then described how Trump personally signed off on high-risk missions—sending elite forces into hostile territory to bring people home. “These operations, that the president was courageous enough to green light to go into places like Afghanistan and do these hostage rescue ops, and use Seal Team Six and Delta,” he said.

From there, the conversation shifted to a very different kind of crisis—one playing out right here in the U.S. and claiming tens of thousands of lives: fentanyl.

Patel didn’t mince words about who’s behind it. “So where’s the root of the problem? The CCP,” he said, pointing directly at the Chinese Communist Party.

This part of the discussion took a darker turn.

Patel explained that while China isn’t producing the fentanyl itself, it’s playing a central role by supplying the raw chemical ingredients used to manufacture it. “The fentanyl precursors, the stuff you need to make fentanyl comes from mainland China. That’s it.”

He said there are hundreds of Chinese companies involved—mass-producing and exporting these precursors around the world. Most of them land in Mexico, where cartels convert the chemicals into fentanyl and smuggle it across the border.

“They’re like ‘we don’t make fentanyl.’ They’re right, they don’t,” Patel said. “They just give you all the ingredients for it and ship it to Mexico.”

In an attempt to polish their global image, Patel said the CCP announced a ban on one specific precursor. But it was a sleight of hand.

“To trick the world, they came out and said: ‘Hey, we’re going to not sell precursor X.’ The problem is, there’s 14 other precursors you can use to make fentanyl and they’re still shipping all of those.”

So while overdose deaths in America continue to soar, China manages to keep its fingerprints off the crisis—at least on paper.

The next revelation sounded like it came straight out of a spy thriller.

When Patel arrived at the FBI, he discovered a secret data room hidden inside the Hoover Building—a room he claimed was deliberately concealed during James Comey’s time at the Bureau.

“Me as the Director of the FBI—when I first got to the Bureau, found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building, full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of.”

Rogan, visibly shocked, blurted out, “Whatttttt….”

Patel described a secure room, locked away and buried deep, with access so tightly controlled that even its existence was unknown to most.

“Locked the key and hid access, and just said, no one’s ever going to find this place.”

Rogan again: “Whaaaaaaat?!”

Patel continued, “Yeah, so my guys are going through that right now.”

Rogan asked: “What’s in there?”

Patel answred. “A lot of stuff.”

Next up was what Patel described as Biden’s border bloodbath.

It’s a crisis that many have brushed off as a result of poor management—but Patel said it’s far more deliberate than that.

Rogan asked the question outright: “Is this [open border] pure incompetence? Or is it malice?”

Patel didn’t hesitate. “No, it’s intentional.”

He explained that the Biden administration made a clear and conscious policy decision—one that opened the floodgates to millions of illegal entrants, fully aware of the consequences.

“When you’re going to let in, what is it, 9 million people? A lot of them are going to be criminals.”

For Patel, the results weren’t just predictable—they were inevitable.

Eventually, the conversation turned to one of the most hotly debated topics of the last decade: Jeffrey Epstein.

Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino had recently made waves by stating unequivocally that Epstein died by suicide—an explanation many Americans still don’t accept.

The public has been demanding answers for years. Where are the files? Is there any footage? Were the powerful protected?

Rogan pushed Patel for clarity.

Patel promised transparency, but with a clear boundary. “We’re going to give you everything that we can and people have to remember, we’re not going to revictimize women,” he said. “We’re not going to put that shit back out there.”

Then came the question everyone was waiting for: “Is there video from the island?” Rogan asked.

Patel was direct. “Not of what you want… If I had it, I’d be the first guy to bring this case hard and fast.”

He emphasized that he and his team combed through every file they were legally allowed to access—and what they found didn’t support the popular narrative. “I got here 100 days ago. I can’t be held to account for 20 years of failures,” he said.

And if any damning evidence ever did exist, Patel admitted it’s entirely possible it was wiped out long ago.

But the most explosive moment of the interview came when Patel shifted his focus to Dr. Anthony Fauci.

This was the bombshell.

After years of stonewalling, vanishing records, and unanswered questions, a major breakthrough had finally arrived: Fauci’s COVID-era phones and hard drives—once thought to be missing—had been found.

“We just had a great breakthrough this week on Fauci,” Patel revealed.

The FBI had been investigating the origins of COVID, but a key problem remained: Fauci’s communications during the most pivotal months of the pandemic were nowhere to be found.

“And nobody had found it… till two days ago.”

Now, the original hard drives are in hand. And Patel made the mission clear: “Did that guy lie? Did he intentionally mislead the world and cause countless deaths?”

He stressed that this isn’t about politics—it’s about accountability. “The best evidence is always the people’s evidence,” he said.

“We’re going to exploit those hard drives… We’re not done. We’re on the case.”

If there’s evidence Fauci manipulated data, covered up dissent, or shaped the narrative to fit a political agenda, Patel believes it could be sitting right there on those devices.

And this time, he says, the truth won’t be buried.

Before wrapping up, Patel shared one final surprise—and this time, it was good news.

According to the latest data, the U.S. is on track to hit its lowest murder rate in decades.

Rogan, clearly surprised, asked how that could be possible.

Patel credited a simple but effective shift in leadership: giving law enforcement the room and resources to do their jobs without political interference.

“Let good cops be cops,” he said. “I’m gonna let you, the agents, the police officers, the sheriffs, go out there and do the work you so badly want to do. And I’m gonna give you the resources you need to do it. And I’m gonna take away the politicization and weaponization… and that’s what we’ve done.”

Sometimes, real change doesn’t come from reinventing the system, but from removing the roadblocks and letting professionals do what they were trained to do.

Watch the full conversation below:


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