Who was that masked man?

Who was that masked man?

Remember when Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass said that they had the situation in Los Angeles under control and no national guard or marines were needed to restore order? Thousands were clashing over ICE raids and LA mayor Karen Bass admonished President Trump for federalizing the state’s National Guard. Newsom sued Trump and said “I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles County and return them to my command. We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved.”

Well Newsom has requested federal disaster relief of the over $1 billion in damages caused during the (mostly peaceful) Ice riots. I think the word is “hutzpah.” 

Speaking of hutzpah, what about the left criticizing ICE officers for wearing masks? I don’t recall them criticizing all the pro-Hamas folk protesting Israel in all the demonstrations on college campuses. Massachusetts (where else) has introduced legislation prohibiting ICE from wearing masks while conducting enforcement actions. Democrat senators Booker, Padilla and Slotkin introduced legislation –  which has zero chance of passage – that also would prohibit ICE from wearing face masks during most enforcement operations. Slotkin said “In recent months, we have seen police, wearing hoodies and masks, make arrests that look more like kidnappings in an authoritarian country.” 

Trump retorted “They wouldn’t be saying that if they didn’t hate our country, and they obviously do. These officers are doing a tremendous job. They’re great patriots. If you expose them because of statements like have been made by Democrat and others on the left, usually mostly, I think, probably exclusively, you put them in great danger, tremendous danger.” The acting Ice director said “I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, family on the line because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is.” 

While states on the left are seeking to unmask ICE, states like North Carolina, Ohio, Florida and Texas are unmaking the Israel protestors. The ACLU whined saying “Arcane laws banning people from wearing masks in public are now being used to target people who wear face coverings while peacefully protesting Israel’s war in Gaza.” One leftist blog said “It means that police will have another excuse to target Black and Brown people, poor people and activists.” (You mean they now capitalize “Brown” now too?) As usual, those on the left do not see the double standard and the hypocrisy of defending mask wearing by mostly peaceful protestors who are breaking the law and not by ICE agents who are enforcing it.

BTW, when I am on my deer hunts near Eagle Pass, TX – once the epicenter of the border crisis – I noticed that most of the border agents were Hispanic. That was also true with the ICE agents I encountered. Seems like over 50 percent of the border patrol and 30 percent of ICE agents are Hispanic. I wonder about the racial/ethnic composition of the protestors. I see very few black faces. Aren’t there illegal black Hispanics – or are all of them playing baseball? I do see Mexican (and Palestinian) flags. Los Angeles is almost 50 percent Latino so one would expect the anti-ICE crowd to be mostly Hispanic. However, in New York, the protestors are mostly white. I would presume that if Latinos are protesting they are ones that are here legally. It would be seriously stupid for an illegal to be protesting, get arrested and get deported.