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The riots that have disrupted the peace in Los Angeles since last weekend all stemmed from ICE agents rounding up migrants for deportation. They were doing their jobs, but protestors contend they shouldn’t be rounding up migrants in the first place. They also contend the National Guard does not belong on the streets of Los Angeles, even though they are merely protecting federal property. According to National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry, however, the National Guard is just as necessary as LAPD in keeping order. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to explain that ICE agents and National Guard troops clearly belonged there and were not overstepping their bounds.
Lowry told host Larry Mendte that President Trump reacted well within his rights in deploying the National Guard to restore order in the first place: “On Saturday there were more targeted raids against illegal immigrants who had been departed and came back, which is a felony, or had their orders of final removal issued by a judge and they hadn’t left. So, this clearly is a category that everyone should be in favor of, but instead it poured fuel on the flames, and the left is just basically opposed to immigration enforcement as such, and it wasn’t peaceful protests, it wasn’t just exercising First Amendment rights, it was violent resistance to federal authority. Trump reacted to that appropriately.”
Lowry highlighted the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the left continues to use as exhibit A for why deportations should not happen: “I don’t think he should’ve been sent to a prison in El Salvador regardless without a trial, but as soon as they realized their mistake they just brought him back… and they’ve charged him, because he was not just a Maryland father, he was not Father of the Year; apparently he was engaged in human smuggling.”
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