The Los Angeles anti-ICE riots have erupted into a soft civil war in the streets. President Trump isn’t waiting for the local Democrats to get a handle on this; they can’t. They won’t. Some have even called agitators to escalate their actions against federal law enforcement. Around 2,000 National Guard units have been deployed for a riot that the media and the LAPD have called ‘mostly peaceful.’ I’m paraphrasing, but we’re back to these silly word games again.
LA rioters f*cked around and found out pic.twitter.com/sDyOkyZ485
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 8, 2025
The unrest sparked when Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted city-wide raids, mostly against individuals with existing deportation orders. They were doing their job, and these left-wing nutcases came out of the woodwork to harass and assault cops. They even stormed a Department of Homeland Security facility. The LAPD didn’t respond for two hours.
Los Angeles City Council Member Eunisses Hernandez (D) calls to escalate the riots against ICE agents.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 8, 2025
Arrest her. pic.twitter.com/e4euGZ5os5
Omg. They’re making Molotov cocktails with Modelo bottles in LA and throwing them at federal agents with locals cheering them on.
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) June 8, 2025
This is beyond a riot. Foreign combatants are trying to kill our federal officers. pic.twitter.com/v9De8MY1EE
🚨BREAKING: As ANTIFA push to the police line the cops absolutely LIGHT THEM UP with every munition they have. pic.twitter.com/XjVTzleuV2
— Cam Higby | America First 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) June 8, 2025
Los Angeles — Far-left rioters have surrounded an ICE facility and are launching explosive devices at it as they escalate their violence for a second night in their insurrection against the federal government. pic.twitter.com/IuMqVckYlX
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 8, 2025
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Now, we have these melees in the streets with cops, cars being burned, foreign flags being waved, and Molotov cocktails being made. And yes, more ICE facilities were being besieged.
RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar, a California resident, also had this thread about how this rebellion is likely taxpayer-funded, citing this post from Laura Powell on CHIRLA, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights:
READ THIS ENTIRE POST.
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) June 8, 2025
The kicker: CHIRLA, the group behind the current rioting in LA, "received nearly $34 million in revenue from government contracts during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, with 96% of that funding from the State of CA."
Taxpayer-funded insurrection. https://t.co/66Q4HxKfrF
Over the past two days, ICE agents have conducted targeted operations across the Los Angeles region, detaining more than 40 suspected illegal aliens. These enforcement actions triggered large-scale demonstrations, some of which turned confrontational, with reports of vandalism, blocked traffic, and physical clashes with federal agents.
The unrest has prompted questions about who is organizing and funding these protests. One of the organizations at the center of the resistance to ICE is the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), a Los Angeles nonprofit that has long provided legal and advocacy services to illegal aliens. CHIRLA is known for radical positions on immigration—for example, it led a campaign to abolish ICE in 2018.
Yesterday afternoon, as clashes with federal law enforcement were heating up, CHIRLA Executive Director Angelica Salas held a press conference during which she announced that the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network’s hotline had received more than 50 calls reporting ICE activity and sightings of “men in military garb.” LARRN is organized by a coalition of nonprofits, and CHIRLA plays a central role, using its main phone line as the hotline number. LARRN’s hotline is one of the communication systems that allows legal observers, volunteers, and other activists to be quickly dispatched to the scene of immigration enforcement actions.
During her remarks, Salas referred to SEIU California President David Huerta as her “brother,” highlighting CHIRLA’s close ties to organized labor in California. Huerta had been arrested during one of the protests for blocking the path of an ICE vehicle, as shown by video footage released by U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. Governor Gavin Newsom expressed his unequivocal support for Huerta, claiming he was only “witnessing” the action, while Essayli announced his intention to file criminal charges.
For her part, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has defiantly opposed federal immigration enforcement in the city, stating on social media Friday, “We will not stand for this” and “No vamos a permitir estas acciones,” (“We are not going to permit these actions”). She added that her office would collaborate with community-based organizations that serve immigrants. She has a long relationship with CHIRLA and bragged last year about obtaining federal funding for CHIRLA’s programs. That grant is part of a broader stream of public dollars that the organization receives from government sources.
In fact, according to a financial audit submitted to the state, the CHIRLA organization received nearly $34 million in revenue from government contracts during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, with 96% of that funding from the State of California. That figure marks a sharp increase from the prior year, when it received around $12 million in government contract revenue. Agencies contributing to CHIRLA’s funding during this period included the California Department of Social Services, the California Arts Council, the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, and the Department of Homeland Security. Notably, as mentioned above, a DHS contract funded CHIRLA to provide citizenship instruction and naturalization services.
With $100,000 remaining on CHIRLA’s contract, DHS froze the remaining funds in February. CHIRLA responded by suing. The court denied their motion for a preliminary injunction on May 29. This is one of two lawsuits CHIRLA filed against DHS this year. The other was dismissed for lack of standing and is on appeal.
To sum up how this works: Your tax dollars fund an organization that organizes efforts to directly interfere with the federal government’s lawful exercise of authority. Then, through its lobbying arm, that organization helps get Democrats elected to office, who then repay the favor by ensuring increased funding.
This is the nonprofit industrial complex at work.
Folks, don’t be scared. Deploy any and all law enforcement and military forces to ensure law and order. And make sure we keep deporting illegals by any means necessary.
Also, oh my god:
"THERE WERE NO PROBLEMS IN PARAMOUNT TODAY" 🤣
— miguelifornia (@miguelifornia) June 8, 2025
🤡 @lauradiazanchor a once respected journalist now openly lying and selling propaganda pic.twitter.com/TKrxnlZFEi
Editor's Note: President Trump isn't going to allow lawlessness to reign in America. We will not have a repeat of 2020's "Summer of Love."
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