1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,079 Speaker 1: Richard Arnold, Morning, morning mate, once again in the streets 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: of la not looking surflesh. Oh well, actually it's pretty 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: quiet right now. But armored military vehicles carrying National Guardsmen 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 1: are moving into the place on orders of Trump. Some 5 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: two thousand rifle carrying troops are being deployed to Los 6 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: Angeles as the Trump team is ramping up its immigration rates. 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: Los Angeles has about a third of its population born 8 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: outside this country. Hundreds of thousands of people are undocumented. 9 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: Trump has said the Feds would go after the worst 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: of the worst, as he calls them hardened criminals. Well, 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: not exactly how this is playing out. Is a couple 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: of cases in recent days. In Milford up in Massachusetts, 13 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: students left their classes the other day to show support 14 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: for a kid, Marcello the Silver. He is an eighteen 15 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,639 Speaker 1: year old high school honored student who was detained by 16 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: Ice immigration agents who arrived in three unmarked cars as 17 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: this teenager drove his volleyball teammates to sports practice. This 18 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: team was born in Brazil had lived in this town 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: since he was five years old. He is also a 20 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: member of the school band. Many students marched in their 21 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: gowns from their school graduations, who joined hundreds of others 22 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: in the town to protest the other day outside the 23 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: town hall. Meantime, in San Diego, at the city's major 24 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: recreation area, Balboa Park, which was the site of a 25 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: World expo back in nineteen fifteen, the ICE agents turned 26 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: up at a local Italian restaurant. Most restaurant workers in 27 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: California are Hispanics. Everybody knows that. When the ICE agents 28 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: were spotted, local San Diego confronted the ICE agents, who 29 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: were in full military tactical garb, and shouted shame, shame, 30 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: as the FEDS arrested for workers and led these pizza 31 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: makers and buster makers off in handcuffs. So now it's 32 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: the turn of la where the ICE agents arrested more 33 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: than one hundred people this weekend amid more protests when 34 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: they turned up in a mostly Latino community and also 35 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: at a building supply store where undocumented laborers look for work, 36 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: as they do at every such hardware store in this state. 37 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: That is the California way, but not so much this. 38 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: Flash bang grenades were fired by the agents as the 39 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: protests grew. As this whole thing developed. 40 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 2: To be peacefool, We're here to speak up against the 41 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 2: injustices we're seeing in the world, and that's. 42 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 3: Why we're here. 43 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: I win it. 44 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 2: Most of the protests has been pretty peaceful, being pretty active, 45 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 2: seeing in support of people, unlockily being. 46 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: You can hear the car horns from those supporters driving by. 47 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: Some people were unwittingly injured. 48 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 2: There was a woman here and her young daughter. 49 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 3: She was around thirteen. I kept in touch with them, 50 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 3: and as we speak, she's in the hospital. Because that's 51 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 3: your guys, bomb hitter right in. 52 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: The face, says another bystander in this particular situation. 53 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: Instead of them peacefully telling us. 54 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: To back up, they just started paper spraying. Now there's 55 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: a lot of women out there that have taper spread. 56 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: And another in this same spot came out. 57 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 2: And wanted to see what was all the commotion and sure, 58 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 2: indeed there were I seasons. 59 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: Gaboom, Yeah, people chanted against the ICE agent says they 60 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: were doing all of this. They said, shame, shame. 61 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 2: LA's meek. 62 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: Karen Bass says all this were not targeting criminals, but 63 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: was simply, in her mind, provocation that was unneeded. 64 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 3: This is the first time this has happened in our 65 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 3: city like this. We know ICE has been here but 66 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 3: it's been for targeted arrests. This was just mass chaos, 67 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 3: and it sows a sense of chaos in our city 68 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 3: and a sense of terror, and. 69 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: It's just except at the White House. Trump aide Stephen 70 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: Miller says the protesters are part of a quote insurrection. 71 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: A Defense secretary Hegseth said fully, our marines are on 72 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: full alert and might be deployed as well, and speaking 73 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson was pressed about this a short time ago. 74 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 3: I don't think that's heavy handed. 75 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 2: I think sent the marines into the streets of an 76 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 2: American city is heavy handed. We had to be prepared 77 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 2: to do what is necessary. 78 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: California, as Governor Gavin Newsom calls it all deranged quote unquote, 79 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: Trump's Homeland chief Christie Nooame, the one who shot her 80 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: dog because it was badly behaves, says. 81 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: Their vehicle's being burned, flags being burned in the street, 82 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 2: and Molotov cocktails being thrown. Governor Newsom has proven that 83 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 2: he makes bad decisions. The President knows that he makes 84 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 2: bad decisions, and that's why the President chose the safety 85 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: of this community over waiting for Governor Newsom to get 86 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 2: some sanity. 87 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: A lot of politics. Here, Trump posted quote, great job 88 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: by the national Guard in Los Angeles. Well, he posted 89 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: that praise for the national Guard where the national Guard 90 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 1: hadn't even arrived yet, all right. See Wednesday Richard al 91 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: Stidside for more from the Mic Asking Breakfast. Listen live 92 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: to news talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or 93 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.