June 10, 2025.

Today, President Donald J. Trump made it clear that the provocations he and his administration are escalating in Los Angeles and now elsewhere,

are using the issue of immigration to suppress dissent entirely.

In the Oval Office today, Trump said of the military parade scheduled for this Saturday,

if there's any protester wants to come out, they will be met with very big force.

For those people that want to protest, they're going to be met with very big force. For those people that want to protest, they're going to be met

with very big force. His statement comes after the administration instituted aggressive immigration

sweeps in Los Angeles, during which immigration and customs enforcement, or ICE, met the few

hundred protesters with violence.

Then, over the protests of both Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom,

Trump federalized 4,000 members of California's National Guard and ordered 700 Marines to Los Angeles. He and his advisors have

repeatedly threatened to arrest anyone who does not cooperate with ICE, including Mayor Bass and

Governor Newsom. Trump has said he based his decision to federalize the National Guard on his

insistence that Los Angeles is staggering under violent riots,

but in fact the protests are largely peaceful and local officials maintain they can handle the situation.

Still, Trump described Los Angeles as invaded and occupied by illegal aliens and criminals and said, violent insurrectionist

mobs are swarming and attacking our federal agents to try and stop our deportation operations.

Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noem, called Los Angeles a city of criminals,

and other MAGA lawmakers have gotten into the act.

Will Summer of the bulwark pointed out today that MAGA influencers are also pushing for more crackdowns and more cruelty in a feedback loop,

as they and the White House officials push each other toward more and more cruelty toward immigrants.

But the narrative that LA is under siege is hard to make stick.

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