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<\/a><\/p>\nIn a statement Monday, Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell claimed the Marines\u2019 presence \u201csent a clear message: lawlessness will not be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local officials and law enforcement criticized the deployment, saying the show of force was unnecessary from the start and only inflamed the already high tensions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so personal and infuriating to me to see 700 of my brothers and sisters in the Corps deployed to my backyard,\u201d said State Sen. Caroline Menjivar, a Marine veteran. \u201cWe did not sign up to intimidate and potentially take military action against Americans on American soil, who were exercising their constitutional right to protest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Menjivar, the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants, noted that \u201csome service members did not want to support this action or play any role in [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] ICE, in deporting people, because they consider immigrants part of their communities, or they themselves had immigrants within their own families.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take great pride in being the first in a family of immigrants, proud to fulfill the dreams of our parents who wanted better for us when they came to this country,\u201d she added. \u201cBut that pride can rip when a country turns its back on you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The decision to withdraw the Marines came minutes after Menjivar and LA Mayor Karen Bass held a press conference at LA Mission College in Sylmar, denouncing the presence of the troops in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur voices were heard,\u201d said Bass upon hearing the announcement. \u201c[Marines] were never needed for crowd control. They are not trained in crowd control. They\u2019re trained to fight on foreign lands, and hopefully they will be going back to defend our nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am hoping that as they leave Los Angeles, they are not going to another city to be inappropriately deployed,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
When the Trump administration began its mass ICE raids in LA, the administration was trying to \u201csend a message with our city,\u201d said Bass, that \u201cif they think they can get away with it here, then they can get away with it anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flooding the Zone with ICE Raids\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, border czar Tom Homan has vowed to \u201cflood the zone\u201d of \u201csanctuary cities\u201d with ICE agents to overcome their lack of cooperation with Trump\u2019s deportation policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n The pledge followed the arrest of two undocumented men after a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer suffered gunshot wounds in New York\u2019s Riverside Park on Saturday night.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery sanctuary city is unsafe. Sanctuary cities are sanctuaries for criminals and President Trump\u2019s not going to tolerate it,\u201d said Homan. \u201cI\u2019m going to work very hard \u2026 to keep President Trump\u2019s promise and his commitment several weeks ago that sanctuary cities are now our priority. We\u2019re going to flood the zone.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Angelenos fought back against the administration with protests, \u201cKnow Your Rights\u201d trainings and organized community defense patrols, they were still terrorized by masked men kidnapping people without a warrant from outside schools, hospitals, places of worship, courthouses and jobsites.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis is about everyday working people who are trying to survive and who are not being able to because of the climate of fear that has been placed over us,\u201d said Bass. \u201cWe know that over 60% of the people who were detained had no criminal record at all.\u201d<\/p>\n She further noted the economic impact of the raids. The estimated $130 million used to deploy troops to LA, Bass said, could have instead been used for various benefits to the city, or for providing troops and veterans with public assistance.<\/p>\n \u201cThe economic factor needs to be talked about,\u201d said Bass. \u201cThe economic factor of wasting taxpayer money. The economic factor of, as long as this climate of fear continues, people are not going to go to work; they\u2019re not going to patronize businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n Many businesses and public spaces are now empty as undocumented residents shelter at home out of fear. The San Fernando Swap Meet, for one, is a shell of the normally bustling marketplace it once was on a Saturday.<\/p>\n Resisting ICE Raids<\/strong><\/p>\n However, hope is on the horizon for Angelenos, as the month-long aggressive county-wide immigration sweeps have appeared to slow down this past week after a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against the federal government.<\/p>\n The order, brought forth by a coalition of civil rights, immigrant rights and local government agencies, argued that the raids violated constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures by performing warrantless stops on people who appear to be Latino. It further asserted violations against due process rights and access to counsel in immigration detention centers.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re winning in the courts,\u201d Menjivar said, adding that there are two state laws in the works that are aimed at protecting immigrants from unjust arrests.<\/p>\n \u201cHave you noticed that you have no idea who these people are?\u201d asked Menjivar. \u201cYou see the slit of their eyes, and that\u2019s about it. Are they wearing a badge? What\u2019s their [badge] number? None of that is being shown. So you have no idea who is kidnapping these individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n One proposed piece of legislation would require federal immigration authorities to identify themselves \u2013 as local law enforcement is required to do \u2013 by displaying their badge number and not wearing a mask.\u00a0<\/p>\n Another would limit ICE\u2019s access to certain \u201cprotected areas,\u201d such as schools, churches and hospitals \u2013 a policy that was rolled back on Trump\u2019s first day in office.\u00a0<\/p>\n Recently, 36-year-old Milagro Solis Portillo \u201cwas forcibly dragged kicking and screaming out of a side exit of [Dignity Health] Glendale Memorial Hospital by three plain-clothed people with face masks,\u201d community activists wrote in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite her doctors stating it was not medically advisable and her attorneys arguing it would be detrimental to her health, Portillo was relocated to an Orange County hospital before being taken to the High Desert Detention Center in Adelanto.<\/p>\n Dignity Health released a statement on July 7, noting that \u201cthe hospital cannot legally restrict law enforcement or security personnel from being present in public areas, which include the hospital lobby and waiting areas.\u201d<\/p>\n The proposed state law would enshrine protections for these \u201csafe spaces\u201d into California law.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re trying to pass laws and stay within a box when they\u2019re not following the rule of the law, the law of the land,\u201d Menjivar acknowledged. \u201cWhile we can not prevent a bounty hunter from coming, we\u2019re trying to do as much as possible [to protect Californians].\u201d<\/p>\n Legislators need to stay flexible and adjust, much like when faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, said Menjivar. Her staff has been meeting with community organizers to understand the issues they are facing and how to adapt protections to fit changing needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re trying to meet the needs [of the people],\u201d Menjivar stated. \u201cEvery day is different, and we\u2019re looking to see what the needs are every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 700 United States Marines President Donald Trump deployed to Los Angeles over a month ago will begin…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[48723,1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-88185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-b-stories","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114907306625914571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}