Make no mistake: the scenes you’re seeing on the news and social media of masked gangs of ICE and Border Patrol agents roaming Minneapolis, throwing tear gas into crowds and inside cars filled with children, abducting people regardless of their age or immigration status, shooting and killing American citizens — they could easily happen here in Long Beach.
ICE and Border Patrol have already been conducting kidnapping operations throughout Southern California for months (my colleague Brandon Richardson wrote about some of them here, here, here, here and here). It would take very little for President Donald Trump (or Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who also seems to be giving orders to Homeland Security forces) to call for a violent surge in Los Angeles and Long Beach.
To his credit, Congressman Robert Garcia is becoming increasingly vocal in his denunciations of these acts of violence against the American people…