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Elected Democrats from seashore to seashore championed instrumentality and bid and embraced instrumentality enforcement successful the aftermath of the Jan. 6 protestation astatine the U.S. Capitol successful 2021, but person seemingly walked backmost specified rhetoric successful the look of national instrumentality enforcement officials carrying retired migration raids successful Los Angeles that person spiraled into riots.
Democrats person progressively condemned the migration raids that began Friday successful Los Angeles, claiming they were "illegal" and revealed alleged grounds of President Donald Trump's "authoritarianism," portion attempting to qualify the riots arsenic a effect of the administration's alleged overreach.
"Inciting and provoking violence; Creating wide chaos; Militarizing cities; Arresting opponents," Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom said connected X Sunday. "These are the acts of a dictator, not a President."
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS SLAM NEWSOM, BASS FOR LETTING LA BURN WITH RIOTS AMID TRUMP IMMIGRATION BLITZ
LA Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (Getty Images)
"Deploying federalized troops connected the heels of these raids is simply a chaotic escalation," Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass posted to X Sunday. "The fearfulness radical are feeling successful our metropolis close present is precise existent – it’s felt successful our communities and wrong our families and it puts our neighborhoods astatine risk. This is the past happening that our metropolis needs, and I impulse protesters to stay peaceful. I’ve been successful interaction this greeting with migrant rights leaders arsenic good arsenic section instrumentality enforcement officials. Los Angeles volition ever basal with everyone who calls our metropolis home."
Federal instrumentality enforcement officials converged connected the metropolis Friday, with some Newsom and Bass issuing statements soon thereafter denouncing the raids, which are portion of Trump's run vow to region the millions of illegal immigrants who flooded the federation nether the Biden administration.
Protesters amusement their outrage against ICE raids that occurred implicit the weekend, successful Los Angeles, June 8, 2025. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
Newsom, Bass and different section elected Democrats rapidly sounded disconnected that they did not enactment the raids, portion offering words of enactment to amerciable immigrants who reside successful Los Angeles.
"As Mayor of a arrogant metropolis of immigrants, who lend to our metropolis successful truthful galore ways, I americium profoundly angered by what has taken place," Bass, for example, said Friday. "These tactics sow panic successful our communities and disrupt basal principles of information successful our city. My bureau is successful adjacent coordination with migrant rights assemblage organizations. We volition not basal for this."
Protests against the raids soon devolved into unit implicit the weekend, arsenic rioters targeted national officials with rocks and different projectiles, acceptable cars connected fire, looted stores and took implicit 101 Freeway Sunday.
A protester stands connected a burned car holding a Mexican emblem astatine Atlantic Avenue connected June 7, 2025, successful Paramount, California. (Apu Gomes/Getty Images)
Trump said Saturday that helium was authorizing the deployment of 2,000 National Guard members to Southern California to assistance quell the unit arsenic it spiraled, bypassing the politician who typically activates the National Guard during authorities emergencies.
The White House has defended calling successful the National Guard to reconstruct instrumentality and order, aft Democrats reportedly failed to power the progressively convulsive protests and the LAPD declared an unlawful assembly successful the city. Dozens of convulsive protesters person been arrested since Friday, according to section police.
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"Gavin Newsom did thing arsenic convulsive riots erupted successful Los Angeles for days," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt posted to X Monday. "Federal instrumentality enforcement officers were attacked by convulsive radicals and amerciable criminals waving overseas flags due to the fact that Governor Newsom was excessively anemic to support the city. The Los Angeles Police Chief has adjacent said the riots were getting retired of hand. President Trump has stepped successful to support instrumentality and bid and support national buildings."
White House property caput Karoline Leavitt has slammed Democrats' rhetoric connected the LA riots. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
As the riots raged, a fistful of elected Democrats, arsenic good arsenic Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, person condemned the raids and national officials cracking down connected the protests, which basal successful stark opposition to messages they issued successful the 2021 epoch aft Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6 pursuing the 2020 election.
Democrats person agelong argued the Jan. 6 protestation was a convulsive insurrection that trampled connected the U.S. Constitution and threatened ideology erstwhile an estimated 2,000 radical breached the Capitol gathering that day.
CALIFORNIA LT. GOVERNOR SAYS LOS ANGELES RIOTS ARE 'GENERATED BY DONALD TRUMP'
Democratic Rep. Norma Torres faced backlash implicit a societal media station telling ICE agents to permission California. (Norma Torres/Getty)
"ICE get the f--- retired of LA truthful that bid tin beryllium restored," Democratic California Rep. Norma Torres posted successful a video connected TikTok Friday of the raids, which received wide backlash among blimpish critics.
But erstwhile addressing the Jan. 6 protest, Torres invoked the Constitution, celebrated instrumentality enforcement and disavowed the "chaos" seen astatine the Capitol successful 2021.
"The American radical merit leaders who volition uphold the Constitution and support our ideology from those who question to destruct it," Torres said successful a connection successful January criticizing Trump’s pardons of the immense bulk of those charged successful transportation to the protestation astatine the Capitol. "I telephone connected my colleagues, careless of enactment affiliation, to condemn this reckless maltreatment of powerfulness and to recommit ourselves to the principles of justness and accountability."
"I retrieve the dependable of the mob banging connected doors, the bravery of instrumentality enforcement officers who risked their lives to support us, and the consciousness of betrayal arsenic our ineffable antiauthoritarian institutions were desecrated," she added.
When asked astir the disparity successful comments, Torres said she has "always supported our section instrumentality enforcement – whether it beryllium successful Los Angeles oregon Washington, D.C.," adding that the ICE raids is "entirely different.'
"LAPD is trained to grip this concern and person the resources to bash so," Torres told Fox News Digital connected Monday. "What ICE is doing successful California is wholly antithetic – we’re witnessing ICE disregard national law, radical going missing, families being separated, and adjacent American citizens being mistakenly detained. I bash not enactment convulsive conduct, but I judge the Los Angeles Police Department tin reconstruct calm, and prosecute immoderate convulsive offenders arsenic needed. Bringing successful the National Guard volition lone escalate tensions by introducing a weaponized subject beingness into the city."
Sen. Bernie Sanders antecedently said Trump gave a "free walk to rioters who attacked the police." (Flagrant YouTube channel)
While Sanders joined CNN Sunday and slammed Trump for moving the state toward "authoritarianism" aft activating the National Guard arsenic rioters targeted national instrumentality enforcement officials. Sanders, however, besides took Trump to task successful January for allegedly giving a "free walk to rioters who attacked the police" Jan. 6 astatine the Capitol.
"We person a president who is moving this state rapidly into authoritarianism," Sanders said Sunday. "My knowing is that the politician of California, the politician of the metropolis of Los Angeles did not petition the National Guard, but helium thinks helium has a close to bash thing helium wants."
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Sanders repeatedly condemned the Jan. 6 protestation successful 2021 and successful consequent years, including earlier successful 2025 erstwhile Trump pardoned the immense bulk of Americans charged successful the protest. Sanders lauded constabulary officers who were moving astatine the Capitol connected the time of the protest, portion slamming Trump arsenic trampling democracy.
"President Trump: You bash not basal for instrumentality and bid erstwhile you springiness a escaped walk to rioters who attacked the police," Sanders posted Jan. 21. "In fact, you are signaling that unit is good and attacking instrumentality enforcement is acceptable behavior."
"As idiosyncratic who was connected the Hill that day, I'm grateful to the officers who enactment their lives connected the enactment to support myself and my colleagues," Sanders continued. "It's outrageous that the President would betray officers who defended our ideology by absolving convulsive insurrectionists of their crimes."
Gov. Gavin Newsom (Steven Senne/The Associated Press)
As Newsom rails against the raids and Trump deploying the National Guard to LA, the Democratic politician called for bid to beryllium restored pursuing Jan. 6, erstwhile helium said determination was an "outright battle to our ideology and Democratic institutions."
"Peaceful protestation is an important mechanics of our ideology but what we are witnessing successful our nation’s Capitol gathering is reprehensible and an outright battle to our ideology and Democratic institutions," Newsom said successful a 2021 statement.
"The radical of California person spoken, and our legislature delegation should ne'er person to fearfulness for their lives to correspond Californians," the connection continued. "We are acrophobic for the information of California’s legislature delegation and U.S. Capitol staff, and are reaching retired to connection enactment successful each mode possible. President Trump indispensable telephone for an extremity to this escalating situation, admit the volition of the radical to bring President-elect Biden to the White House and determination instantly to a peaceful modulation of power."
When asked for remark connected Newsom's erstwhile remarks connected Jan. 6 compared to his commentary connected the riots, Newsom's property bureau directed Fox News Digital to the governor's remark to NBC News connected Sunday: "This is astir authoritarian tendencies. This astir bid and control. This is astir power. This astir ego. This is simply a accordant pattern... this feline has abandoned the halfway principles of this large democracy. He’s threatening to spell aft judges helium disagrees with, chopped disconnected backing to institutions of higher learning, he’s rewriting past and censoring humanities facts."
The bureau besides noted that Trump said successful 2020 during a townhall lawsuit that helium could not mobilize the National Guard "unless we’re requested by a governor," and pointed Fox Digital to remark from retired Maj. Gen. Randy Manner, erstwhile acting vice main of National Guard bureau, criticizing Trump's activation of the Guard.
"The President's national deployment of the National Guard implicit the authoritative wishes of a politician is atrocious for each Americans acrophobic astir state of code and states rights," Manner said, Fox News' Jennifer Griffin reported, connected Sunday. "The politician has the authorization and quality to respond to the civilian disturbances with instrumentality enforcement capabilities wrong his state, augmented arsenic indispensable by requesting instrumentality enforcement assistance from different governors. There are implicit a cardinal badged and trained members of instrumentality enforcement successful this state for the politician to inquire for assistance if helium needs it. While this is presently a ineligible order, it tramples the governor’s rights and obligations to support his people. This is an inappropriate usage of the National Guard and is not warranted."
Former Vice President Kamala Harris denounced the migration raids successful LA. (Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press)
Failed 2024 statesmanlike campaigner and erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris posted to X Sunday that the raids were portion of Trump's "cruel, calculated docket to dispersed panic and division," adding that the activation of the National Guard was "a unsafe escalation meant to provoke chaos."
On the one-year day of the Jan. 6 riots, Harris lauded the heroism of constabulary and the National Guard, portion celebrating "the resolve" of elected officials to support the Constitution and instrumentality and order.
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"The resoluteness I saw successful our elected leaders erstwhile I returned to the Senate enclosure that night, their resoluteness not to yield, but to certify the election, their loyalty, not to enactment oregon person, but to the Constitution of the United States, that reflects its strength," she said successful 2022. "And truthful of course, does the heroism of the Capitol Police, the DC Metropolitan Police Department, the National Guard and different instrumentality enforcement officers who answered the telephone that day, including those who aboriginal succumbed to wounds, some disposable and invisible."
Members of the Los Angeles Metro Police clash with demonstrators during a protestation against national migration sweeps successful downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025. (Reuters/Daniel Cole)
Federal officials person pinned blasted for the Los Angeles unit connected Democratic elected officials who person "villainized and demonized" ICE instrumentality enforcement, Fox Digital antecedently reported.
"The convulsive targeting of instrumentality enforcement successful Los Angeles by lawless rioters is despicable and Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom indispensable telephone for it to end," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, for example, wrote successful a Saturday statement. "The men and women of ICE enactment their lives connected the enactment to support and support the lives of American citizens.… From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi gestapo to glorifying rioters, the convulsive rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is beyond the pale. This unit against ICE indispensable end."
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The White House defended Trump's activation of the National Guard, saying it was successful nonstop effect to Democrats who person "completely abdicated their work to support their citizens" portion instrumentality enforcement officials are attacked.
President Donald Trump authorized the National Guard to California implicit the weekend. (Rebecca Blackwell/The Associated Press)
"In caller days, convulsive mobs person attacked ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying retired basal deportation operations successful Los Angeles, California," Leavitt said successful a Saturday statement. "These operations are indispensable to halting and reversing the penetration of amerciable criminals into the United States. In the aftermath of this violence, California’s feckless Democrat leaders person wholly abdicated their work to support their citizens."
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"That is wherefore President Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to code the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester," Leavitt continued. "The Trump Administration has a zero tolerance argumentation for transgression behaviour and violence, particularly erstwhile that unit is aimed astatine instrumentality enforcement officers trying to bash their jobs. These criminals volition beryllium arrested and swiftly brought to justice. The Commander-in-Chief volition guarantee the laws of the United States are executed afloat and completely."
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