President Donald Trump declared on Tuesday that Los Angeles would be “burning to the ground” if he had not ordered National Guard troops to assist in recent anti-ICE demonstrations.
Trump commented on his personal Truth Social account on Tuesday morning, then went on to criticize California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for their handling of the current wildfires.
“If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now, much like 25,000 houses burned to the ground in L.A. do to an incompetent Governor and Mayor – Incidentally, the much more difficult, time consuming, and stringent FEDERAL PERMITTING PROCESS is virtually complete on these houses, while the easy and simple City and State Permits are disastrously bungled up and WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE! They are a total mess, and will be for a long time. People want to rebuild their houses. Call your incompetent Governor and Mayor, the Federal permitting is DONE!!!” Trump wrote.
The Department of Homeland Security is releasing information about more than a dozen illegal immigrant individuals suspected of crimes in the United States who were apprehended in Los Angeles beginning June 6.
DHS released the suspect information after violence broke out in Downtown LA over the weekend in response to the ICE raids that resulted in “hundreds of illegal aliens [being] arrested by ICE officers and agents,” including “many with a criminal history and criminal convictions.”
The agency shared more information about 19 people apprehended by ICE Los Angeles on June 7 and suspected of offenses ranging from robbery to second-degree murder to rape.
“America’s brave ICE officers are removing the worst of the worst from LA’s streets, while LA’s leaders are working tirelessly against them,” DHS said in a statement as riots continued through the weekend.
Sheriff Chad Bianco of Riverside County said agitators “are not protesting” and criticized California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for not taking appropriate action.
“They are trying to violently influence something by political action. That is what this is. That is everything that the Constitution stands against,” said Bianco, a Republican who is running for governor.
“Governor Newsom needs to put his phone down, go sit in his house behind the comfort of his TV screen and a couch, and be quiet because he is doing nothing but fueling this process. He needs to stay out of the way of law enforcement. He knows nothing about this. He knows absolutely nothing about the enforcement of law. He despises the enforcement of law, and he has encouraged this,” the sheriff added.
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As noted by Fox News, here are some of the violent criminal illegal aliens that the Trump administration arrested before the riots broke out:
–Mexican national Lionel Sanchez-Laguna, 55, has a criminal history including discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling and vehicle, battery on spouse or cohabitant, willful cruelty to child, DUI, assault with semi-automatic firearm, and personal use of a firearm in Orange, California.
–Cuong Chanh Phan, a 49-year-old Vietnamese national, was previously convicted of second-degree murder. Phan was sentenced to serve 15 years to life in prison after he and “his gang member associates” were asked to leave a high school graduation party in 1994 following a dispute and “returned with semiautomatic weapons,” which they fired into a crowd of about 30 partygoers, DHS said.
–ICE criminally arrested Cielo Vivar-Ubaldo, a previously deported Mexican national who was convicted of sex with a minor, narcotics violations, and a hit-and-run. He faces deportation.
–Julian Riveros-Cadavid, a Colombian national, was arrested on administrative immigration violations and has prior arrests on charges of domestic battery, child endangerment, assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft, and narcotics violations. He faces deportation.
–ICE arrested Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez, a 55-year-old Filipino illegal immigrant, whose criminal history includes theft, assault, burglary and sexual penetration with a foreign object with force and assault with intent to commit rape in Pomona, California, which carries a 37-year prison sentence.