ICE Protests in LA
ICE Protests in LA Are Forcing a Tough Choice on Democrats
Alex Padilla. The 52-year-old Democrat, who serves as California’s senior US senator
Padilla, whose parents came to the US as undocumented immigrants from Mexico, is being lauded as a hero. And the policy views he has long held about creating more protections and pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants are now being heard by more Americans.
It’s just one more way that President Donald Trump’s contentious decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles, over the objections of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has pushed the state’s brand of unapologetically progressive, resistance-style politics back to the forefront of the Democratic Party.
Many Democrats have been trying to distance themselves from anything that smacks of “progressive,” figuring such politics were the undoing of Californian and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
A recent poll from YouGov found that half of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of deportations, while 39% approve and another 11% are unsure.
Erika D. Smith Bloomberg 14 June 2025
In a county RPT county where 34% of the population — or 3.5 million people — are immigrants, more than 800,000 are undocumented and more than a million live with someone who is undocumented, the randomness of the raids has led to widespread fear and outrage.
But Trump, ever the showman, knows how to shape narratives.
And he knows that what doesn’t look good is a split screen on CNN of protesters taking selfies next to flaming Waymos and California’s lieutenant governor, Eleni Kounalakis, blaming ICE for helping provoke such behavior.
Erika D. Smith Bloomberg 9 June 2025
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