Nahmir is quoted in "Heavily armed immigration agents descend on L.A.’s MacArthur Park" (L.A. Times)("Immigration agents in military green surrounded MacArthur Park as the convoy readied for a show of force akin to a Hollywood movie. They came with horses and armored vehicles, carrying rifles and in tactical gear in the middle of what is the heart of immigrant Los Angeles").
The phrase "carrying rifles and in tactical gear..." should be relocated next to the word "They" so that grammar mavens do not get distracted into efforts to craft a Grouchoesque how-he-got-in-my-pajamas joke out of the image of horses (and armored vehicles) carrying rifles and tactical gear. This is not an occasion for cheap linguistic jokes. There was a military show of power in MacArthur Park... like a striped pair of pants.
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Illegal aliens. Catastrophic Anthropogenic Immigration Reform. Invasion. Insurrection. Progress.
How many did they catch?
“Like a striped pair of pants.” Oh nooooooooo! Oh nooooooo!
Oh noes!
Anyhoo…
I still recall the student newspaper at Texas A&M back in the 1980s and the student reports on the use of illegal immigrant construction labor by contractors for the new alumni building going up on campus. A raid on the site nabbed a handful of the undocumented but hard working laborers. The student reporter sagely asked an Immigration spokesman how they could determine who on the site deserved the attention of the Federales. The spokesman replied, "Well, when we pull up with out lights flashing, we take note of the ones who run away."
In all the hullabaloo, I hope no one left the cake out in the rain.
For all the Democrats bitching, moaning and hand wringing over the increased funding for ICE, it wouldn’t have been necessary if Biden hadn’t opened the border. The Ds voted for that, the Rs voted to enforce the immigration laws.
If the Dems don’t like the militarization of “La Migra”, they need to stop blocking, attacking and shooting at federal law enforcement officers.
That sounds bad enough to make me wonder what really happened.
I will drink the wine while it is warm; and never let you catch me looking at the sun.
Someone must have left the cake out in the rain.
BLM 2.0
That said, Baby Lives Matter (BLM).
Harmless hard-working migrants on the one hand and structural disaster on the other. I'd go for structural disaster until it's not there anymore, then look at empathy when that's solved first.
BTW, I love the Richard Harris version of McArthur Park, and Donna Summer’s is divine, but I like Tom Homan’s version best.
They go in heavily armed so no one gets shot.
It was worth the effort if only to lure Karen Bass into doing and saying something stoooopid…again.
- Krumhorn
'La migra' is at MacArthur Park? If you're here legally, so what?
Last time I looked "LA" was part of our country. Not a separate one. As such, its subject to Federal law and doesn't get to have its own army, navy, or immigration policy.
These people are the true "insurrectionists" who don't recognize the authority of the Federal Government.
“I don’t work for Karen Bass. Better get used to us now b/c this is going to be normal very soon. We will go anywhere, anytime we want in Los Angeles." - Greg Bovino, Border Patrol
Call the cops. I'd like to report Karen being tongue-thrashed.
The cruelty of Biden's actions... played out.
The LA Mayor Susan Fishhead or whatever her name is was out there "confronting" ICE agents who were arresting illegals. If she obstructed them, or assaulted them, she should be arrested. We have one law for everyone. She's not a queen.
Separated families, Child sex trafficking, human smuggling and slave trafficking, drug trafficking... when will the Democrats apologize?
Bass is going to find herself indicted on an obstruction charge.
Again the constant "centering" of the "Poor illegals" and how terrible it is to arrest them. they weren't doin' nothin'. Never does the MSM "center" stories about illegals committing crimes or causing problems for native born americans. Its always "isnt immigration great" "Don't deport poor Pedro" or "Brown babies in cages" 24/7/365.
If the Dems don’t like the militarization of “La Migra”, they need to stop blocking, attacking and shooting at federal law enforcement officers.
Ding ding ding!
It's melting.
@Bill, Republic of Texas, +1
I'll believe Trump is serious about police/ICE interference when Karen Bass is in the dock answering charges vis-a-vis 18 USC ss 111.
How many did they catch?
Sir, we can't do JOURNALISM here! This is a newspaper!
McArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left my cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to make it
And I'll never have that recipe again
If the Dems don’t like the militarization of “La Migra”, they need to stop blocking, attacking and shooting at federal law enforcement officers.
They tried to murder Donald Trump.
Twice.
Taking pot shots at some low-level ICE trooper is nothing to them.
As I said before, this is now the best case scenario.
Thanks a bunch, Dems.
Maybe if the city and county cooperated in gathering up the criminal aliens, instead of obstructing, ICE wouldn't have to make big open sweeps. Reading further about the park, it is reported that it has become a known drug, smuggling, fencing operation run by MS-13.
Just checking...is there a dispensation clause in the federal immigration laws if the immigrants who entered illegally are currently working hard? And are they mostly harmless if they are currently not robbing liquor stores, rioting, or yet voting illegally for Democrats?
BTW, I love the Richard Harris version of McArthur Park, and Donna Summer’s is divine, but I like Tom Homan’s version best.
Nice work. Instant classic. Fair warning: I might steal this.
'...carrying Mexican and Salvadorian flags'
' "Whose streets? Our Streets!" they chanted...'
Hmm. Sounds like a military response is warranted.
If we don't deport the Mexicans back to Mexico, how will they participate in the urban riots against gringo-gentrification? I've never had a problem with "Yankee Go Home" so long as the people holding the sign are on the side of the border in their crappy containment zone.
Recent (12/24/24) headline in LA:
"Inside MacArthur Park: LAs most dangerous neighborhood."
is there a dispensation clause in the federal immigration laws if the immigrants who entered illegally are currently working hard? And are they mostly harmless if they are currently not robbing liquor stores, rioting, or yet voting illegally for Democrats?
IF they were hanging out in Macarthur Park they were dealing/using fentanyl and/or engaged in prostitution. There is no legit reason, no traditional family park action, going on next to the LA Zoo anymore. It's contraband and mayhem all the time.
' “The cumulative effect of defendants’ unlawful actions — including unconstitutional stops — has had devastating impacts on California’s peace and prosperity, and has turned once bustling neighborhoods into ghost towns,” the states said in a brief. '
If there's any violence or riots to be had, it's usually California.
I've never had a problem with "Yankee Go Home"
My current faves in Mexico City are the "respect our culture" signs. I think the feeling is 100% mutual, and a big part of my culture is respect for the law and disdain for criminal predators. The reason my guns are undocumented is because the threats are too.
From what I've read in a number of sites, MacArthur Park is not a place where you would take your kids to have a 'play day' and has not been for some time. To wit: MacArthur Park.
Good of the Mayor of LA to finally take notice of MacArthur Park because apparently, before this week, no one in charge of anything in LA had for years.
there is a bit of humor, with the hipster invasion from points north,
@MJB, Those Mexico City signs were hilarious. Someone should ask them if our anti-immigrant protestors can buy them 2nd hand. They literally need no editing in English or Spanish, verbatim what Americans have been saying for decades.
I'm sure Mexicans didn't catch the irony.
It took me until halfway through 2021 to realize the Democrats stealing the 2020 election with mail in votes was a massive mistake.
They could have easily made it through Trump’s second term with Pence undermining everything and the rats in congress betraying him.
There is no going back now. California is going to lose a double digit percentage of its population specifically in the blue cities. The political power California and the democrats wielded because these illegals were counted in the census will be removed. Every blue city around the country is going to lose census count and be reduced in political power .
This won’t just affect national races. There are many purple state congresses that will flip from democrat to republican because those cities will lose apportionment.
they didn't expect this much resistance (living in a bubble, does that to you) although if you don't watch the samizdat, you don't really know what's going on,
@Achilles, yep, not to mention the grim financial picture of many blue American cities. When they became insolvent, they shouldn't get one goddamn red cent from DC.
They broke it. They buy it. They sleep in it.
"I'm sure Mexicans didn't catch the irony."
The Mexican individuals who wrote the signs in Mexico City are different individuals than the individuals who illegally entered the USA. It is not ironic for one person to disagree with another person.
I hope some of the agents were able to stop at Langer's on the SE corner for a deli sandwich. Best in the City.
It is not ironic for one person to disagree with another person.
OMG as bad arguments go that one is near the top of the list...
I believe it was (checks notes) the Obama administration that took Arizona to the USSC and invalidated Arizona's attempt to control its borders, establishing that it is solely the Federal government's choice to enforce (or not) immigration law.
Hard working immigrants are not hanging out at the park at 11 a.m. on weekdays
Latin news programs engage in double think, they push the plight of the maryland man as well as the silly mexico city panjandrum
Given that there was just a planned ambush on ICE agents in Texas, I think their showing up in force, armed and armored, was completely reasonable.
"Hard working immigrants are not hanging out at the park at 11 a.m. on weekdays"
The man has a point!
It is not ironic for one person to disagree with another person.
But it is ironic for any Mexican to demand assimilation from immigrants... in English. In Mexico.
Hard working immigrants are not hanging out at the park at 11 a.m. on weekdays
An overlooked point. Same applies to mayors.
This may be your city but it’s our country.
"LA is ours". Who is our, Kemosabe?
...it reminds me of those urban gangs that steal motorcycles and atcs and wreak havoc in blue cities because 'these streets are ours'. Not if nobody is above the law they aren't...
Jim at 825 wins the internet today. Bravo.
I would admit to being inappropriately amused if Cheech Marin got caught up in a mass deportation...
Cheech and his buddy are cringe. The only thing worse than young stoners are old stoners
Did everyone see the traffic map of LA that was posted on X Saturday? Apparently, with all the illegals scared to go out and drive, the freeways were clear, for the first time in a long while.
How many they caught and how many of those they send home and are all the officers and their horses safe are the only things about the operation I'm interested in.
Everything else is just propaganda.
Tom Homan is not a man who has problems filling out a 'What did you get done this week' report.
Mac Arthur Park has long been a well known area of lawlessness and crime. It was the go-to place for illegal immigrants to buy fake IDs. So it's not a great mystery that ICE would want to shut that down.
Even NPR had to admit it back in 2006. :
https://www.npr.org/2006/05/05/5387226/a-walk-in-the-park-for-a-fake-id
"BURBANK: It's a gorgeous Monday afternoon and NPR engineer, Carlos Encincio(ph) and I are driving around McArthur Park, just west of downtown L.A. If it were statistically possible for a neighborhood to be more than 100 percent immigrant, this area would be. By no coincidence, it's also a hot-bed for the illegal document trade. Fake driver's licenses, social security cards, resident alien cards, student IDs from any college you want, it's all available here."
Since 2017, California and 10 other states have declared themselves "Sanctuary States" adopting laws with the express purpose of undermining enforcement of US borders by offering a safe haven for all crossing illegally. The last time 11 states openly declared themselves no longer bound by the US Constitution, they had to endure military occupation for more than 10 years after formal end to the Civil War. How else are we to send the message to the world that open defiance of US immigration law will not be rewarded?
As a native born Angelino, I approve this message.
The conundrum here is the mechanism by which to prevent Los Angeles and California from flouting the Supremacy Clause. Should they be baited into a Ft Sumter moment? Should they be ignored? Are civil or criminal sanctions available? Can federal funding be yanked?
I'm perplexed.
"Hard working immigrants are not hanging out at the park at 11 a.m. on weekdays"
How to say, " I've never worked as a drug dealer"..
You think it's easy???
Someone left my tres leches out in the rain
The blame lies with the Democrats.
1st) They treated illegal immigrants like VIP guests and gave them our money while our own needy were ignored, basically rubbing illegal immigration in everyone's face until most of the country was pissed.
2nd) They were warned that giving up criminal aliens in custody would be far less dangerous than hiding and escaping them into the community. They did just the opposite. Dems always do the stupid un-American thing, every. time.
In the summer of '67 I was a summer law clerk for a big LA firm. I rented a studio apartment a block and a half up the street from MacArthur Park. Even in those days it was a tough neighborhood. But in the last 20 years MacArthur Park and the streets around it have just become Third World slums--or worse.
MAGA, of which I am the ultra variety does not seem to agree with me that some illegals should be given a route to legal status. Those who have lived here many years without committing crimes or living on the public dole should be allowed to stay by going through the naturalization process here, which should be streamlined for all. Over the years they were generally encourage by our country to come, and so they did and invested in a life here, then found it impossible to become legal, many having lived here longer than they ever did in their native country. Problem is people are really pissed off now and not willing to be reasonable.
Oh, so its the "heart of immigrant Los Angeles". Well, they shouldn't be afraid of ICE then. Since they're all legal *immigrants*. Of course if they're illegal aliens breaking the immigration laws, that a Horse clad in different colored tactical gear.
I don't know why the victims of illegal crime and auto accidents don't sue the state of California for their illegal Sanctuary policy. And it sounds like a conspiracy to evade to evade federal laws.
The NY times called it this way: "Federal Agents March Through L.A. Park, Spurring Local Outrage". I'm sure if you go back to 1957, you'll probably see the same NYT Headline. "Federal Agents march through Little Rock School, spurring local outrage".
Cause the NYT's always dislikes shows of Federal power and is concerned about "Local outrage".
MacArthur Park, in Los Angeles, has a high crime rate, particularly in the surrounding area. The park is known for being in a poverty-stricken area and is reportedly controlled by the MS-13 gang, according to one source. This gang allegedly demands a "tax" from locals, including those engaged in illicit activities within the park, in exchange for protection. There have also been reports of violence against transgender individuals, including recent attacks in April 2025.
So, its a "Mostly peaceful" area that been unfairly targeted by those meanies in the Trump Administration.
"Those who have lived here many years without committing crimes or living on the public dole should be allowed to stay by going through the naturalization process here..."
As long as they've been working and paying taxes, I could live with that. The ones who've been living off taxpayer money need to go home and live off money from their home country's taxpayers.
Not really surprising to see one person that shouldn't be here out there defending others that shouldn't be here.
Want to know why those immigration officers are 'heavily armed?' Because you leftists are shooting them for simply doing their jobs.
Comments ot the link are interesting.
Apparently , it is Border Patrol, not ICE that is interrupting the picnics, pilates, birdwatchers, daycare field trips and frisbee competitions in the park
More heavily armed that FBI storming senior citizen Trump supporter Roger Stones house, handcuffing him while he was in pajamas,and terrorising his deaf wife?
Not to mention FBI boats in lake behind his home, FBI helicopters in the air above his home, and most disgusting of all, a CNN reporter just happened to be passing by to document the courageous, dangerous, frightening activity.
...(no lives were lost, thank God)
bagoh20 said...
MAGA, of which I am the ultra variety does not seem to agree with me that some illegals should be given a route to legal status.
That's because they're criminals stealing jobs from Americans, and therefore should be deported.
If they have been "working and paying taxes", then they are again criminals, because they had to engage in identity theft in order to do that.
An illegal who joined the US Military and qualified for a combat infantryman badge MIGHT be worth keep.
All the rest need to be booted. They go to the back of the line, behind ALL the people who've tried to come to America illegally.
And they can take any of their "anchor babies" with them.
This was an MS-13 sweep and the Border Patrol officers were prepared. Naturally, it is presented by the media as a sweep against hard-working California family men.
Crapsody in teh Rain
h/t Lou Christie
“As a native born Angelino, I approve this message.”
I guess you meant “Angeleno”.
rehajm said...
"I would admit to being inappropriately amused if Cheech Marin got caught up in a mass deportation..."
7/8/25, 11:15 AM
Ha! ‘cause he was “Born in East LA”? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092690/
Greg The Class Traitor said at 7/8/25, 3:55 PM: Well Said. “chef’s kiss”
Karen Bass… Gavin Newscum…
All this Democratical governance and its attendant chaos, crime and substandard conditions in so many areas.
And to think six months after the devastating Palisades Fire, there has been ONE permit granted for the rebuilding of a single family residence destroyed in the fire.
One would have to try very hard to be that incompetent. And there are assholes out there that would vote for them again. That would require a sub-normal IQ, I’d wager.
One permit to build, but twelve permits to clean up…. Twelve. That’s two a month.
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