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4. The Big Lies of rump tyranny

by Will Bunch | Columnist
Published June 10, 2025, 12:23 p.m. ET

... Xochitl ... was in the McDonald’s next to the busy Home Depot on Wilshire Boulevard near downtown Los Angeles last Friday when she saw the masked men burst from a van, as 100 or so mostly brown-skinned men and women ran frantically in every direction.

“They were just grabbing people,” Xochitl recounted two days later, after watching her neighbors getting handcuffed. “They don’t ask questions. They didn’t know if any of us were in any kind of immigration process” ...

In metro Los Angeles, the ICE raids continued into the weekend amid a backdrop of accelerating public unrest, as demonstrators confronted federal agents, blocked a major freeway and chanted obscenities against ICE and the Trump regime. A handful of self-driving Waymo cars were burned in the street, but the bulk of the violence — from tear gas assaults to brutal beatings captured on video — was committed by state security forces ...

The story of what’s really happening in Los Angeles is the story of Trump’s American authoritarianism: It starts with a Big Lie — the fallacy that mass deportation would only target murderers, rapists, and other hardened criminals — that hides the true purpose of bending some laws and totally ignoring others, for the sole purpose of amassing more power for the regime ...

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/la-immigrants-protests-national-guard-marines-trump-20250610.html