Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Why Los Angeles?
Across the country, immigration enforcement has radically changed in the past 140 days. Quotas have been established. Federal agents who normally do other things have been re-assigned to immigration duty. The warrant requirement has been something of renewed interest.
It was nearly inevitable that resistance would arise and meet a flashpoint, and it seems we are there now.
So, why Los Angeles?
In part, of course, it is because there are a lot of immigrants there. My own hunch is that relatively few actual undocumented people participating in the protests-- they understandably fear arrest. But I do think that immigrants who are citizens are often upset by what is going, and certainly all kinds of people who rely on immigrants.
And also, I think that the administration has chosen California to provoke a reaction. They want the fight, and want it to be there.
