Ep. 2213 - ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RIOTS! TRUMP SENDS IN THE TROOPS!

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Huge show today. Massive protests, riots, illegal immigration, insurrectionists break out into violence in Los Angeles. President Trump calls in the National Guard. Things are getting hot and heavy. Plus, Greta Thunberg is picked up by the Israelis off the coast. And she is smiling about it. And also, Elon Musk versus Donald Trump. That continues to go on. Senator Tom Cotton stops by. Tons coming up on today's show first, right now. You can get 40% off a DailyWire Plus Gift membership with code DAD40. Because your dad deserves more than cultural nonsense, he deserves a full year of ad-free uncensored content from the people the left can't cancel. Plus, unlimited access to our premium entertainment, including What is Woman? and Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's new hit series, Parenting. Make Father's Day great again. Head on over to dailywire.com/gift and use code DAD40 today. Alrighty, folks. So insanity breaking out in my old hometown of Los Angeles. There is a reason that I left Los Angeles, as long as I can recall.
Living in LA., every time you drive past a Home Depot, for example, there would be a crowd of illegal immigrants who are waiting for work. And listen, you feel bad for these people. Many of them have crossed the border in an attempt to seek works and remittances back home. And many of them are also on welfare. And it turns out that an enormous number of people who come across the border end up engaging in things that actually are a leech off the taxpayer dime, end up as a net cost to the taxpayer. They take part in public education system if they have kids who they bring across the border. They end up using medical services. Again, this is not about whether these people are nice or mean, whether they are good or bad. They have broken the law. They cross the border illegally. That is the ones who are law abiding. And then there are a bunch of people who are not law abiding. When I say law abiding, I mean aside from the illegal immigration, there are many people in Southern California who are occupying jails in Southern California who committed crimes that are not illegal immigration. Anyway, federal law says you are not allowed to cross the American border without your papers. And that if you overstay your visa, even if you come across the border legally with a visa, then you are also here illegally and you ought to be deported. Enforcing that law should not be controversial. There is a reason that countries have borders, and the United States, for as long as I can recall, simply did not enforce the law properly. That was particularly true under Joe Biden. Well, Donald Trump came into office in 2016 pledging that he was going to do something about illegal immigration.

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And he did.

**Ben Shapiro** (2:44)
The border was essentially closed. At least the rates of border crossing went down dramatically during Donald Trump's first term. Then Joe Biden came in and he opened the border wide to the tune of at least 10 million people crossing the border, either by claiming asylum falsely or by simply crossing illegally between ports of entry or by overstaying visas. And now Donald Trump has come into office for the second time, pledging that he is going to stop illegal immigration. And he has already successfully closed that southern border. And now he is activating ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to actually do the thing the law says, which is to find people who are in the interior of the country illegally and to remove them. And again, this should not be particularly controversial. Just because people haven't enforced the law properly for decades does not mean that enforcing the law now should be controversial. Well, a few days ago, late last week, there were some immigration enforcement operations that happened in Southern California. According to the Wall Street Journal, federal agents were seen at least two locations in Los Angeles. As the word spread, more people then showed up and protests grew and lasted into the night. Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said on Friday some 800 protesters surrounded and breached a federal law enforcement building in Los Angeles. She said protesters assaulted ICE officers, slashed tires to face public property. More than a dozen protesters were arrested. And then on Saturday, residents of Paramount, a city within LA County about 16 miles south of the downtown area, saw federal agents gathering in an industrial park. The residents began trying to block the streets nearby. The protests turned into a standoff between federal agents and approximately 300 people, according to the mayor, and then lasted most of the day. And things got incredibly fraught. And that is not a giant shock, how fraught they got. What is amazing is that people believe that the United States is so lawless that when federal agents show up to arrest people for being in the country illegally, you end up with hundreds of protesters, many of whom end up assaulting police officers, end up assaulting ICE agents, participating in acts of criminality, rioting, burning things. And the visuals from these riots are pretty astounding. I mean, they really, really are. First of all, LA has become an incredibly lawless place. It's one of the reasons my family and I moved during the BLM riots in which the city of Los Angeles essentially told the cops to stand down and allow people to riot across Melrose and just destroy whatever they could, burning cop cars on the way. It was about that point when my wife and I, we lived in a fairly decent area of LA, could hear the helicopters above our home in gunshots. We were like, you know what, maybe we should leave for Florida. And I can promise you in the aftermath of what's going on right now, there can be a lot more people who look at California and say, why in the hell am I paying exorbitant taxes in order to live in a place that allowed every area around LA to burn just a few months ago and now is allowing parts of LA to burn in order to protect people who came to the country illegally in the first place. It's total insanity. It's total insanity. As you know, you can now preorder my new book Lions and Scavengers, but this is essentially what the book is about. There are two groups of people in the United States and across the West, people who wish to build institutions and create successful operating systems, and then people who just wish to tear it down. And when you look at the protesters, many of whom are flying Mexican flags as well as flying Palestinian flags, and a good indicator that you're on the wrong side of any protest is if you're the one flying a Palestinian flag. It's pretty incredible how consistent this is. But these protesters who are roaming around, suggesting they need to be in the United States while flying the Mexican flag, that's an amazing thing because they're not saying that Mexico and the United States are in solidarity. Precisely the opposite. They are saying that they came to the United States as a quasi-invading force because the only reason that they're in the United States is as refugees from Mexico, theoretically, people who are leaving Mexico for a reason. This would be the equivalent of Cuban migrants attempting to escape Cuba, who then fly the Cuban flag while attempting to stop ICE officers. It would be bizarre. You'd never accept this from Cubans, nor would Cubans do this. Cubans coming to the United States from Cuba generally don't fly the flag of the country that they think oppressed them and that forced them to leave. If they are flying that flag, it's to overthrow the government of that country. Here in LA, you have a bunch of people flying Mexican flags, not because they wish to change the government of Mexico, or because they believe in the solidarity between the United States and Mexico, but because they believe, many of them, that this entire area is Asitlan, that essentially it doesn't belong to the American people and doesn't belong to the American government. That's the only rationale for seeing some of the images that you are seeing. So the New York Times had a timeline of what was going on here. It said, on Sunday, the third day of protests in downtown LA began with roughly 20 National Guard troops arriving at the Metropolitan Detention Center early Sunday morning. We'll get to President Trump and his deployment of the National Guard and his calling up of some Marines in just a moment. By about 10:30 a.m. Pacific time, nearly 300 members of the California Guard took positions at three different sites around the city. More than a dozen Homeland Security officials in riot gear joined the National Guard troops at the detention center. By early afternoon, hundreds of protesters had gathered there. Around 1 p.m. Pacific, California National Guard, Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers formed a line and attempted to clear protesters away from the Metropolitan Detention Center. Officers deployed tear gas, pepper balls and other crowd control munitions. Protesters then decided they were going to take over the 101 freeway as well. Again, this followed an entire day and night of rioting. I mean, truly an unbelievable thing happening in Los Angeles, except that this has become de rigueur for the left. This is the part that's astonishing. The left somehow seems to think all of this is OK. The left somehow seems to believe that all of this is just normality. That the new normal is, we don't like a thing, therefore we riot. BLM riots caused $2 billion in damage, no problem. Violent activity, killings by people like Luigi Mangione of the United Health Care CEO. Fine, because we agree with his agenda. The murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC. Well, you know, Israel is really bad. Like the legitimation of violence by the left is truly a horrifying thing. And when you have the government of Los Angeles not doing enough to shut it down, it demonstrates where Democrats are at. You wonder why President Trump is president. This would be the reason. This would be the reason. And there's a long heritage for this in the Democratic Party, going back to Barack Obama winking and nodding at the Ferguson riots of 2014 We've had a dozen years of this kind of nonsense. And yet Democrats still don't seem to get it. As we will see, they are defending the rioters and the protesters and the people who are engaging in violence. They're suggesting they're not actually defending the violent people. But then they essentially reserve all of their criticism and hatred and rage for the Trump administration enforcing the law, saying that somehow enforcement of the law is the thing that is causing the riots. In a moment, we'll get into the actual footage from these riots. And man, it's pretty astonishing. First, if you're a homeowner, you need to listen to this. Did you know that somebody can literally steal your house? Yeah, this is a thing that actually happens. A scammer can forge your signature on one document, use a fake notary stamp and spend about $40 to file it at the counter or quarter. Then they can take out loans using your home as collateral. You won't even know what's happening until you start getting collection and foreclosure notices in the mail. 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