Riots in Los Angeles as protesters clash with immigrant staff
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Riots against the Trump administration Immigrant attack Southern California shook Los Angeles this weekend, with California Republicans solidifying their responsibility for the violence against Democratic government Gavin Newsom and Mayor La Karen Bass.
“Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have a real habit of burning Los Angeles,” Republican California Rep. Darell Issa posted on X Saturday night.
“If only Karen Bass fought like he fought for the Los Angeles fire and illegal aliens,” Issa added in another post, referring to the Palisade fire that tore Southern California in January.
In Los Angeles, riots broke out in Los Angeles on Friday and Saturday, when immigration officers raided in left-wing cities to eliminate illegally resident individuals, which were called “sanctuaries” before the president in November. Donald Trump I was sworn into an oval office.
On June 7, 2025, a car is on fire on Atlantic Avenue in Paramount, California after multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE). (Reuters/Barbara Davidson)
The attack began Friday, with Bass giving a statement in support of illegal immigrants in the city, taking on the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
“I was reported to federal immigration enforcement measures at several locations in Los Angeles this morning,” Bus said in a statement Friday.
Mayor La Karen Bass was blown up on social media due to her reaction to an ice attack in her city. (Getty/AP)
“As mayors of a proud immigrant city who contributes to our city in so many ways, I am deeply angry at what happened. These tactics inhaling fear in our communities and disrupt the fundamental principles of safety in our cities.
Newsom issued a similar one Friday’s statement calls the immigrant attack “confusing and reckless.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
“A chaotic federal sweep across California to meet any arrest quota is as reckless as it is cruel. Donald Trump’s confusion is eroding trust, tearing families apart, and damaging workers and industries that make use of the American economy,” a Newsmom statement read.
Newsom’s press agency doubled in support of protecting illegal immigrants from deportation in a response post Saturday to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“Recently, violent mobs have attacked ice officers and federal law enforcement agencies carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California, which are essential to stop and reverse illegal criminals’ invasion of the United States.
Newsom’s Office said, “These are not fundamental. Your indiscriminate sweep holds the entire community horrifying, hardworking, tax-paying Californians. It’s a cruel escalation and has to end.”
Other Democrats in the state are furthering in defense of illegal immigrants amid the attack, with Democrat Norma Torres posts to Tiktok On Saturday, ICE officials told them to “get f— so they can restore the order.”
Los Angeles Police Station (LAPD) declared an illegal assembly and issued a citywide tactical warning as the riot attacked law enforcement officials on Friday evening, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Saturday.
Smoke rises from a burning car on Atlantic Boulevard, in Paramount, Los Angeles County, Paramount, California, on June 7, 2025. (Reuters/Barbara Davidson)
“Last night, more than 1,000 mobs surrounded federal law enforcement buildings, attacked ice law enforcement officials, slashed and destroyed tires, and attacked taxpayer-funded property,” read a statement from the DHS. “Our Ice implementation Officers are facing a 413% increase in assaults against them. Oddly, these days, the Ice Officers family is Dox(X)ED and is being targeted. ”
When Chaos broke out on the streets of LA, federal officials were blamed for violence against Democratic election officials who “devils and demonized,” Fox Digital reported earlier.
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“The violent targeting of law enforcement in Los Angeles by lawless rioters is despicable, and Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom need to end it,” DHS Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote, for example, in a statement. “The ice men and women have breathed life into protecting and protecting the lives of American citizens. Sanctuary Politicians It’s beyond the pale. This violence against the ice must end. ”
California Republicans and conservatives also turned their anger towards Democratic leaders for violence, Fox Digital found.
Police kicked tear gas back into the crowd on Saturday, June 7, 2025, during protests over ice and immigrant attacks in Paramount, California when people were blocked on the streets and started a fire. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times Getty Images)
“Gavin Newsom is not qualified for many reasons. At least his support of illegal alien rebels. He’s all for the purpose and around the losers.” Posted on X.
Woods further described the bass as “communist” and Newsom as “grease” in another post that asked him to describe California Democrats in one word.
“After the four years of Biden administration that refused to enforce our immigration laws, Americans voted for President Trump, who committed to enforcing the law and securing borders. Federal agencies, including ice, have the right to enforce federal law, even in sanctuary states.” California Republican Rep. Ken Calvert Posted on X.
“This is yours, governor. It’s a shame that California openly opposes its citizens to its citizens with illegal foreigners, including those with enhanced criminals,” says Hermet Dillon, former vice-chairman of the California Republican Party and aide for the U.S. Department of Justice. Posted on X.
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“Gavin Newsom appears to believe that California can not only ignore federal immigration laws, but now it can ignore federal tax laws. The doctrine of invalidation died along with the Confederates. Republican California Rep. Tom McClintock See newsom floating withholding federal taxes in response to reports posted on X and that the Trump administration will cut funds to the state.
Libs from Tiktok, a popular, conservative X-account founded by LA natives, has posted a series of messages that are responsible for local Democrats and provide updates on violence.
Stephen Miller, deputy White House Chief of Staff and California native, responded to the bass of X after defending illegal immigrants.
When asked about the comments of a California Republican and the overall riots on Sunday morning, Newsom’s communications director Izzy Gardon told Fox Digital:
It has spread on social media on Friday nights and Saturdays, showing people looting LA shops, erupting fires and lobbing rocks and other items on immigration staff. US Border Patrol Chief Michael W. Banks shared a photo of the bloody hands of the Border Patrol injured by a rock flying through the windshield.
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Trump signed the president’s memorandum on Saturday, helping to deploy 2,000 national security guards to Paramount, California to quell the violence, and also denounced local leaders for confusion.
President Donald Trump in the oval office. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“If California Gov. Gavin Newscam and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass can’t do their job, if everyone knows they can’t, the federal government will solve the problems, the riots and the looters, how to solve it!!” Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday evening.
Acting Ice Director Todd Lyons described what happened in Los Angeles on Friday as “horrifying.”
“When the mob attacked federal ice and law enforcement officials on LA Street, Mayor Bus took a more chaos and lawless side to law enforcement,” the Lions wrote in a statement Saturday. “These violent riots will be held liable for any injuring federal officials and not making mistakes. ICE will continue to enforce immigration laws in our country and arrest illegal aliens.”
On Saturday, June 7, 2025, people were blocked on the streets and sparked a fire during protests against ice and immigrant raids in Paramount, California. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times Getty Images)
FBI director Kash Patel vowed that individuals attacking immigrant staff will face prisons.
“If you attack a law enforcement officer, you’re going to prison,” Patel said Saturday, Fox Digital reported earlier.
“It doesn’t matter where you came from, how you came here, what you claim to represent,” Patel commented on Fox News Digital on Saturday. “If the local jurisdiction doesn’t stand behind the men and women wearing badges, the FBI will.”
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Alexandra Koch and Landon Mion of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.