What Is the Democrat Solution to Riots by Illegal Immigrants?

Rioting took place in Los Angeles against enforcement of immigration and customs enforcement. The reason for ICE agents being in LA was to “apprehend illegal aliens and those employers who hire illegal aliens. Although the riots began with smaller numbers of participants, they soon turned to violence and grew larger. The violence included “throwing rocks at cars, torching cars, defacing government buildings, and attacking law enforcement,” according to Victor Davis Hanson in his article at The Daily Signal. 

But here’s what’s interesting. The mayor, Karen Bass, came down, in her public comments, on the side of the protesters who were protesting the idea of deportation at all. Kind of like former Vice President Kamala Harris used to march against deportation.

And California Gov. Gavin Newsom then gave a series of editorializations that I think have ruined his chances ever to be a serious national candidate. He said this was “chaotic,” this was “reckless.” And he said that they were just trying to have “an arbitrary” deportation “quota.”

Gavin, 12 million people came into the country illegally. That was 3 million a year. That was 250,000 per month. That was over 8,000 a day. They have not been able to deport more than a thousand on most days – sometimes 500. They would have to deport 8,000 people every single day for four years to get back where we were with 20 million illegal aliens when President Joe Biden entered office. So, it’s not a quota, it’s an effort to stop an invasion.

And it’s a very funny invasion because now Gavin is made that they nationalized the California guard. President Donald Trump has that ability. And people said, “No. No president --- they have to request it.” No, they don’t. You think that JFK said to George Wallace, when he nationalized the Alabama National Guard, said, “Would you please let us nationalize your guard so you can be removed from stopping African American people going to the University of Alabama?” No.

So, what I’m getting at is, on one side of these violent acts, you have these protesters. And I’ll just give a word of advice. You’re going to lose the optics – Democrats, the Left, and immigration protesters – if you have a lot of people here illegally and they’re waving, not the American flag, but the Mexican flag, as they’re committing acts of violence.

Think of the logic: “I am waving the flag of the country under no circumstances I want to return, but I am attacking the officers and the infrastructure of the country that under every circumstance I want to stay in.”

That might explain why, in the midst of all of this negative publicity, a CBS poll taken to show that people were outraged showed that just the opposite: 54% of the American people are for continued deportations.

Donald Trump was the POTUS in 2020 when Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland experienced riots for several months. Hanson wrote, “Donald Trump does not want to see a May, June, July, August, September 2020 $2 billion in property damage, 35 people killed, 1,500 officers assaulted, $14,000 in arrests, precinct burned, courthouse burned, historic church burned. He doesn’t want to see that.”

Democrat leaders, such as Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, are egging on the violent behavior, according to Hanson. For some reason, such leaders think that such riots are peaceful and acceptable protests. News flash: Actions, such as “burning a car or burning a whole neighborhood down,” are not peaceful protests. Such Democrat leaders obvious see a different riot than do those with common sense. Hanson’s “Final bottom line” is:

If you take an oath to enforce the laws of your state or the country and you see people swarming detention centers, swarming the streets, obstructing traffic, burning cars, trying to injure people with rocks, and you do nothing, then you are forsaking your oath of office.

And secondly: Mayor Bass, Gov. Newsom, would you please tell us what is your position on 12 million people who entered the United States illegally, who are residing illegally at a time when the country is running a $2 trillion deficit and your state, at one point, recently owed $75 billion that it did not have?

Hanson is exactly right in asking for the Democrat solution to the immigration problem. Should we allow one million more illegal immigrants into the United States? Should the number be three million more? How about five million more? What is their solution to find the 300,000 to 500,000 illegal immigrants who are believed to have criminal records?

Another question asked by Hanson is, What is your solution to the problem of “violent protesters waving the flag of foreign national country as a way of persuading us that we should not deport them when they are burning things and committing violence about the country they want to stay in but waving the flag of the country they do not want to return to?

Still another question put forth by Hanson is about the position of the Mexican government. This foreign government must not be too happy about the “big, beautiful bill” with tax remittances of $63 billion. Maybe that number should be increased – maybe it should be doubled or tripled or more. Maybe then Mexico would do something about their own citizens trying to destroy America.