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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. This weekend we saw rioting in Los Angeles against Immigration and Customs Enforcement for its efforts to apprehend illegal aliens and employers who were hiring illegal aliens. And the riots started out initially without very many numbers but then they turned violent. And by violence, I would define that as throwing rocks at cars, torching cars, defacing government buildings, and attacking law enforcement. But here’s what’s interesting. The mayor, Karen Bass, came down, in her public comments, on the side of the protesters who were protesting the idea of deportation at all. Kind of like former Vice President Kamala Harris used to march against deportation. And California Gov. Gavin Newsom then gave a series of editorializations that I think have ruined his chances ever to be a serious national candidate. He said this was “chaotic,” this was “reckless.” And he said that they were just trying to have “an arbitrary” deportation “quota.” Gavin, 12 million people came into the country illegally. That was 3 million a year. That was 250,000 per month. That was over 8,000 a day. They have not been able to deport more than a thousand on most days—sometimes 500. They would have to deport 8,000 people every single day for four years to get back where we were with 20 million illegal aliens when President Joe Biden entered office. So, it’s not a quota, it’s an effort to stop an invasion. And it’s a very funny invasion because now Gavin is mad that they nationalized the California guard. President Donald Trump has that ability. And people said, “No. No president—they have to request it.” No, they don’t. You think that JFK said to George Wallace, when he nationalized the Alabama National Guard, said, “Would you please let us nationalize your guard so you can be removed from stopping African American people going to the University of Alabama?” No. So, what I’m getting at is, on one side of these violent acts, you have these protesters. And I’ll just give a word of advice. You’re going to lose the optics—Democrats, the Left, and immigration protesters—if you have a lot of people here illegally and they’re waving, not the American flag, but the Mexican flag, as they’re committing acts of violence. Think of the logic: “I am waving the flag of the country under no circumstances I want to return, but I am attacking the officers and the infrastructure of the country that under every circumstance I want to stay in.” That might explain why, in the midst of all of this negative publicity, a CBS poll taken to show that people were outraged showed that just the opposite: 54% of the American people are for continued deportations. So, you know what is really “reckless,” Gavin? You know what is “chaotic?” It’s you. You. You. You. You did not intervene to stop the violence. Donald Trump does not want to see a May, June, July, August, September 2020 $2 billion in property damage, 35 people killed, 1,500 officers assaulted, $14,000 in arrests, precinct burned, courthouse burned, historic church burned. He doesn’t want to see that. And you’re egging this on. And you think it’s going to be peaceful when people throw rocks at cars, innocent bystanders and people wave the flag as they burn things—the Mexican flag of a foreign country. You are undermining your own argument. And what is your argument? I don’t know what it is. What is your argument, Karen Bass, the mayor—now that you’re not in Ghana and you’re here in the United States during a burning? Is it burning is OK, whether it’s burning a car or burning a whole neighborhood down? And you don’t act. It was pathetic, the chief of police of Los Angeles, I felt like it was some Soviet apparatchik, he was saying, ”There is no violence. We are very proud of First Amendment.” And it’s like, I was given a text that my job is in danger, probably, if I say the truth because meanwhile, the LA County sheriff was saying, “We’re going to warn you that we will stop this. And we will make arrests. And we will use tear gas.” And apparently, they saw a different riot. And they were more in charge of that area of the rioting than the Los Angeles Police Department. But I guess Mayor Bass—they’re scared, the LA police chief and the police hierarchy. Because they see that when the fire chief objected to Mayor Bass being on—I don’t know—a junket, or the deputy mayor being arrested for phoning in a bomb threat, or the water and power director leaving a reservoir that was critical to the survival of Pacific Palisades empty and unattended for months and fire hydrants not working and she voiced—they fired her. So, I guess this police chief says, “If I tell the truth that these people are violent and they are assaulting officers and the mayor is doing nothing and the governor is doing nothing, I will be fired. So, I will lie and say it’s mostly—I am really impressed by the restraint of the protesters.” Final bottom line: If you take an oath to enforce the laws of your state or the country and you see people swarming detention centers, swarming the streets, obstructing traffic, burning cars, trying to injure people with rocks, and you do nothing, then you are forsaking your oath of office. And secondly: Mayor Bass, Gov. Newsom, would you please tell us what is your position on 12 million people who entered the United States illegally, who are residing illegally at a time when the country is running a $2 trillion deficit and your state, at one point, recently owed $75 billion that it did not have? What is your solution? Is it to let one more million in? Three more million in? Five more million in? What is it? What is your solution to find the 300,000 to 500,000 people believed to have criminal records? Just tell us, what is your solution? What is your solution when you have, apparently, violent protesters waving the flag of a foreign national country as a way of persuading us that we should not deport them when they are burning things and committing violence about the country they want to stay in but waving the flag of the country they do not want to return to? What is the position of the Mexican government? Because I can tell you that there is a bill right now—the big, beautiful bill—that will tax remittances, the $63 billion. And all this is going to do is give rise to voices who will say, “I think we need a higher percentage to tax these remittances because they’re not getting the message. The people who are demonstrating and violent apparently think that we are going to subsidize them with social services, to free up money so they can send to Mexico, on tax, $63 billion—their greatest source of foreign exchange—while they run $170 billion trade surplus, while the cartels kill between 60,000 and 80,000 Americans.” That’s an unsustainable situation, as are these riots. Bottom line: I think, Gavin Newsom, you took your recent effort to be moderate, centrist, your podcast, and you lit a fuse and you blew it up. Nobody in their right mind would ever vote for you for anything after you went into a volatile, dangerous situation and tried to pour gasoline on it by essentially saying you, the governor, will not do anything to restore order or quiet. And you sided with people committing violence against their fellow residents of Los Angeles. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Gavin Newsom’s ‘Reckless’ Surrender of LA to Foreign National Riots appeared first on The Daily Signal.

When anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators took to the streets in the Los Angeles area over the weekend attacking officers, setting cars on fire, and looting, they drew attention to the left-leaning activist groups that may have helped instigate the riots. Three major organizations have come under increased scrutiny: the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles; the Party for Socialism and Liberation; and the Service Employees International Union. One of these groups, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles, has received millions in government funding. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles forms part of the LA Rapid Response Network, a group of organizations in Southern California that aim to monitor and counter ICE activity. The coalition has denied playing any role in the protests and the riots, but it helped organize protests before the weekend, and it has called protesters to action on behalf of David Huerta, president of the SEIU’s California chapter. Authorities arrested Huerta Friday morning. “Federal agents were executing a lawful judicial warrant at [an] LA worksite this morning when David Huerta deliberately obstructed their access by blocking their vehicle,” Bill Essayli, the U.S. attorney for the central district of California, posted on X. “He was arrested for interfering with federal officers and will face arraignment in federal court on Monday.” “Let me be clear: I don’t care who you are—if you impede federal agents, you will be arrested and prosecuted,” Essayli added. “No one has the right to assault, obstruct, or interfere with federal authorities carrying out their duties.” Federal agents were executing a lawful judicial warrant at a LA worksite this morning when David Huerta deliberately obstructed their access by blocking their vehicle. He was arrested for interfering with federal officers and will face arraignment in federal court on Monday. Let… pic.twitter.com/GIFD34LIcF— U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) June 7, 2025 SEIU California said Huerta had been “exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity.” On Saturday night, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles sent out an “Action Alert,” calling on supporters to join a protest Monday and “stand in solidarity with SEIU California leader David Huerta, unjustly beaten and detained for defending immigrant rights.” Protesters carried signs printed by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist political party. A number of NGOs have been implicated in this. Foremost is Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights or CHIRLA, and the photos of signs show they were printed by PSLWEB / Party for Socialism and Liberation. pic.twitter.com/yS7jXkHGJ8— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 8, 2025 The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights held a rally last week to denounce ICE arresting illegal aliens across the city, but the group’s spokesman told the New York Post it had no role in the violent riots. The spokesman said the group “organized a press event on Thursday” to protest the ICE raids and had “been sending legal observers to immigration courts and detention centers on Friday, Saturday, and [Sunday] as part of the LA Rapid Response Network.” The group had “not participated, coordinated, or been part of the protests being registered in Los Angeles other than the press conference and rally cited above,” the spokesman added. According to IRS records, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles received $34 million in government grants between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services awarded the group three grants during the Biden administration, adding up to $754,068.07, for “citizenship education and training.” USCIS canceled the latest grant in March, after $349,064 of the $450,000 had been spent. The group did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about its role in the protests and riots. SEIU California SEIU California claimed Huerta, the union president who got arrested Friday, had been observing and documenting law enforcement activity. Yet the president’s own statement after the fact suggests a more aggressive role. “What happened is not about me; this is about something much bigger,” he said in a statement Friday evening. “This is about how we as a community stand together and resist the injustice that’s happening. Hardworking people, and members of our family and our community, are being treated like criminals.” The SEIU did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time. Party for Socialism and Liberation The Party for Socialism and Liberation printed signs for the protests that escalated into riots. As The Heritage Foundation’s Mike Gonzalez has noted, the organization has also actively coordinated protests on college campuses, particularly against Israel as it responded militarily to the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. The Network Contagion Research Institute traced the connections between the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Chinese Communist Party. The Party for Socialism and Liberation forms part of the “Singham Network,” linked by “close financial, interpersonal, and ideological ties to Neville Roy Singham and his wife Jodie Evans, a power couple within the global far-left movement with close ties to the CCP,” the institute claimed. Thoughtworks, Singham’s company, did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. Elias Rodriguez, the alleged murderer of two Israeli embassy staff in Washington, D.C., had a previous association with one of the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s chapters. The party’s website had previously quoted Rodriguez. “We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the D.C. shooting,” the party said in a post on X. “Elias Rodriguez is not a member of the PSL. He had a brief association with one branch of the PSL that ended in 2017. We know of no contact with him in over seven years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it.” The party did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. The post Who Organized the LA Anti-ICE Protests That Escalated Into Riots? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In a major rebuke to measures passed by the District of Columbia city government under home rule, the House of Representatives will consider three bills this week that would repeal local laws passed by the D.C. Council. One of the bills seeks to repeal a local law that gave illegal aliens and other noncitizen D.C. residents the right to vote in local elections in the District of Columbia. H.R. 884 would repeal the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022, which enabled noncitizens to vote in D.C. elections.  The local law, which went into effect on Feb. 23, 2023, formally amended the definition of eligible electors to include noncitizens living in the District of Columbia. That means noncitizen D.C. residents became eligible to vote for the mayor, chairman or member of the D.C. Council, attorney general, members of the D.C. State Board of Education, members of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, and D.C. ballot measures. It also allowed noncitizens to run for elected office in the D.C. government including the top job, mayor.  Congressional Republicans have attempted to undo the D.C. Council’s laws in the past, and were joined by as many as 42 of their Democrat colleagues in the effort. However, their effort did not pass muster in the Senate. (D.C. laws are subject to an initial review by both chambers of Congress). A legal challenge was also not able to undo the D.C. law. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an appointee of President Barack Obama, dismissed a lawsuit in 2024 that had attempted to challenge the law, saying the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue.  “Free and fair elections are a prerequisite for a healthy republic. The radical D.C. Council’s decision to allow noncitizens—including illegal aliens and foreign agents—to vote in local elections dilutes the voting power of the citizen voter,” Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, the sponsor of the legislation in the House, told The Daily Signal.  “That power must be defended and anyone against H.R. 884 is for the transfer of political power away from legal voters. Congress has the authority to overrule this in Washington, and 25% ofthe Democratic caucus agreed and voted for this bill—a strong bipartisan vote,” the Texas congressman continued.  “My legislation restores the sanctity of the voting process and ensures that only American citizens are voting in our nation’s capital, and I urge all my colleagues to support this legislation,” Pfluger said.  Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., explained how enabling noncitizens to vote dilutes the voice of the American citizen. “I cosponsored H.R. 884 because only American citizens should decide American elections—period. The D.C. Council’s reckless decision to allow noncitizens, including illegal aliens and even foreign agents, to vote in local elections is a direct assault on the integrity of our democratic process,” Timmons told The Daily Signal. “This bill restores common sense, protects the sanctity of the vote, and sends a clear message: citizenship matters. Anyone against H.R. 884 is for watering down the voice of the American voter. My constituents overwhelmingly support this bill, and so do I,” the South Carolina lawmaker said.  Two other pieces of legislation pertaining to the District are set to be debated and voted on in the House this week as well. H.R. 2056 is a bill that would undo local law by barring the D.C. government from prohibiting or restricting its officials from “sending, receiving, maintaining, or exchanging with any Federal, State, or local government entity information regarding the citizenship or immigration status (lawful or unlawful) of any individual.” The bill also would prevent the District from banning compliance with a request from the Department of Homeland Security for “a detainer for, or notify about the release of, an individual.” The legislation has a policy carve-out for illegal aliens who are victims of, or witnesses to, crimes. H.R. 2096 is a bill being considered that deals with policing in the District. The Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act would restore the ability of D.C. police officers to negotiate matters related to discipline through collective bargaining. It would also restore the statute of limitations for claims against the D.C. police or civilian employees of the Metropolitan Police Department. Both of these actions would amend a D.C. law, the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022. The post House Eyes 3 Bills to Overrule DC Government appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Riot season has started with a bang in California. Actually, many bangs, hurled rocks, torched cars, and a lot a flag waving—but not the Toby Keith variety. A man on a motorcycle waves a Mexican flag as smoke rises from a burning car on Atlantic Boulevard, during a standoff by protesters and law enforcement, following multiple detentions by ICE in the Los Angeles County city of Compton, California. Photo by @Photospice pic.twitter.com/wFfYFdIdTO— corinne_perkins (@corinne_perkins) June 8, 2025 The mayhem began in and around Los Angeles over the weekend after increasingly fiery and certainly not peaceful protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids morphed into large-scale violence. It couldn’t be clearer that these riots come courtesy of the blue—Democrats, that is—and a large rabble showing their commitment to remain in America by flying the flags of Mexico and other countries.  A smattering of other left-wing protesters showed up to show their support too, of course. Here’s a dude wearing a Soviet hammer and sickle. How retro and murderous regime-chic. Some of the anti-ICE rioters in Los Angeles are draped in Soviet flags pic.twitter.com/6JfmaJKt7d— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 9, 2025 Some Palestinian flags were sprinkled into the crowds as rioters pelted police cars with stones. Highway Patrol vehicles pelted with rocks by pro-migrant rioters in Los Angeles. Officers were forced to abandon vehicles on the highway, as violent rioters began throwing rocks. pic.twitter.com/nzbJRp1mhC— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 9, 2025 BREAKING: Rioters in Los Angeles are taking over the city—thousands are advancing on the police line.Look at the massive Palestinian flag right in the middle of the demonstration. pic.twitter.com/qmdhleRjiw— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) June 9, 2025 Oh, and as always with these kinds of events there were some people just looking for a good time, er, social justice. The Air Jordan store in LA just got looted live on @ABC7 The thieves are seen running away with armfuls of stolen sneakers. The same store was looted during the 2020 Riots. pic.twitter.com/7FgNFwCPOI— Tayler Hansen (@TaylerUSA) June 9, 2025 It was hard to find any American flags among the rioters from the videos on social media, but I did find a few. LA protesters burned and spat on U.S. flags and chanted anti-Trump slogans in violent protests in the city’s downtown this weekend. pic.twitter.com/93UVrNFxWw— NTD News (@NTDNews) June 9, 2025 What was happening in Los Angeles didn’t look like a small, isolated incident. And many complained on social media that authorities were slow to respond. The Los Angeles Police Department put out a statement on Friday calling the protests “peaceful,” but it certainly didn’t look that way. Here are rioters smashing the windows of LAPD headquarters one day after LAPD called them “peaceful protesters” https://t.co/YTKCGmAsEZ pic.twitter.com/CjuTUOl8jd— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) June 9, 2025 President Donald Trump, perhaps thinking about the George Floyd protests that spiraled out of control in 2020, acted quickly. On Saturday he ordered the mobilization of the National Guard to quell the violence. And this is where Democrats think they found their message. Even though it looked like LAPD was being overwhelmed and the situation was spiraling out of control, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and state leaders didn’t seem in a hurry to restore order. Once Trump decided to bypass California Gov. Gavin Newsom and call up the National Guard, they decided the winning message was to insist that all would be well if Trump hadn’t provoked the rioters. Newsom, who must be used to watching his state burn at this point, lashed out on X. He insisted that everything was under control, that the riots were actually Trump’s fault, peace was right around the corner if Trump hadn’t been “inflaming tensions.” He actually got every Democrat governor in the country to make a statement denouncing Trump’s use of the National Guard. Every single Democratic Governor agrees:Donald Trump’s attempts to militarize California are an alarming abuse of power. pic.twitter.com/gmHuZpxWdc— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 8, 2025 I’d like to thank Newsom for that. It’s good to let it be known that every single Democrat in a place of power would let their country burn just to oppose Trump. But here’s the ultimate problem for Newsom and his fellow Democrats right now, and why they feel the need to go with this laughable argument that the riots are Trump’s fault. It’s hard to get around or deny the fact that these riots are directly tied to the open borders policies of President Joe Biden. The border crisis that mysteriously arose the day Biden arrived in office then vanished the day he left was clearly manufactured. The Democrat regime, aided by its activist networks and nongovernmental organizations, created a flood of illegal immigration of a scale unprecedented in American history. Perhaps they assumed that by flooding the zone and getting millions of people in the front door they could make this lawlessness de facto official. They tried hard to make it truly official with a deceptive piece of legislation under Biden. Fortunately, it was rejected. The answer wasn’t mass amnesty or a Trojan horse law disguised as border security. The answer was simply executive action. Instead of just letting Democrats get away with this attack on democracy, Trump decided to not just enforce the law at the border but across the United States. Hence the blowback as it appears that organized masses of young men waving the flags of other countries don’t want to leave peacefully. That’s put Democrats in a messaging pickle. They really want to go with the narrative that Trump is deporting nice, law abiding (except for that one measly time) Maryland dads who are just as American as anyone else. The Mexican flag wavers and vandals are putting a serious crimp in that explanation of what’s happening. What’s happening in California really does look like an invasion and one that is seriously threatening the well-being of not just Los Angeles but any community that took on a huge number of illegal immigrants in the last four years. Trump is acting decisively on an issue in which he is increasingly popular as his opponents whine and do nothing. ? BREAKING: Trump approval rating on immigration surges like a "rocket," according to CNNpic.twitter.com/MzZetjWzVn— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 9, 2025 Democrats just can’t help digging deeper into their hole of unpopularity as they remind people why they lost so decisively in November. The post Trump Has Winning Message on LA ICE Riots appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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ABC News program, The View, engaged in dangerous acts of disinformation on Monday, falsely telling viewers that President Trump had ordered National Guard troops to Los Angeles, CA to “attack the protesters” and kick off a “civil war.” While ignoring the destructive riots targeting ICE agents looking for illegal immigrants, they claimed Trump was “setting” a “trap” for the “Latino community” for them to turn violent. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg decried that Trump was interfering with California’s “states’ rights” to allow L.A. to descend into anarchy and violence. “You don’t just send people in. You don't just send troops in, people in. But what do I know, I’ve never run a state,” she ignorantly scoffed. She also claimed that trying to enforce U.S. immigration laws were the real problem: But I don't really, you know, when you come in and everyone -- when you go into the doughnut shop to look for people and you're dressed in tactical gear, you're creating an issue. You're creating a problem. You want people to come, you scanned them, even when people are supposed to be there, when they come to talk to the judge, you're arresting them right after. What's going on here? Seemingly ignorant of what the National Guard was, co-host Sunny Hostin whined that Trump was “militarizing” them. She also used incendiary rhetoric when she claimed there were there “for the purpose of policing Americans' protest activity, right, our freedom of speech, our freedom of assembly.     She and Goldberg teamed up to claim the National Guard was going to start a “civil war”: HOSTIN: And you are an army turned inside to police its citizens can cause chaos and fascism. And so, I think that’s the way - GOLDBERG: Civil war. HOSTIN: And civil war. I think that’s the way we need to look at it, because deploying the National Guard is supposed to be last resort. Adding to the dangerous rhetoric, fake Republican Ana Navarro claimed – without evidence - that the National Guard was ordered to “attack the protesters.” ABC News then show images of explosions and burning cars as if the National Guard was responsible, not the rioters. Still ignoring the violence over the weekend, she claimed the National Guard’s presence was just Trump “setting” a “trap” for the “Latino community,” baiting them to be violent: I'm Latino. I'm an immigrant. These are my people who getting dragged through the streets. I want to say to the Latino community, we must be strategic, we must be nonviolent. We have the right to protest, we are Americans, this is our country, we have the right to free speech, but we can't fall into the trap that Donald Trump is setting of wanting to turn this into violent protests and distract from his feud with Elon Musk. Pretend independent Sara Haines declared that the deployment of the National Guard was meant to “create a scene” to justify their presences. She falsely claimed “they were not [violent] until this was exacerbated [by Trump].” Haines blew Hostin’s mind when she noted that a super majority of Americans (66 percent) believed it was illegal to be in the country illegally and wanted illegal immigrants deported. “So, there's misinformation out there,” Hostin bloviated. “So, let’s fix that right now because it is not illegal to be undocumented! It is not a crime to be undocumented! People are not illegal!” As they were nearing the end of the segment, Goldberg wondered if we were witnessing “pure fascism” in America and ridiculously suggested, “you're telling me as an American I can't protest.” “Well, there are indications of fascism,” Hostin agreed. There were no legal notes delivered to correct their disinformation. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View June 9, 2025 11:03:44 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: The Defense Department has the U.S. Marines on high alert right now. Now, you know, is it warranted, or does this sort of escalate the situation? I mean, whatever happened to state's rights? I thought that’s what you do. Cause you tell the state what we’re thinking of doing. You don’t just send people in. You don't just send troops in, people in. But what do I know, I’ve never run a state. But I don't really, you know, when you come in and everyone -- when you go into the doughnut shop to look for people and you're dressed in tactical gear, you're creating an issue. You're creating a problem. You want people to come, you scanned them, even when people are supposed to be there, when they come to talk to the judge, you're arresting them right after. What's going on here? SUNNY HOSTIN: I think what really matters from sort of a long view here, is the fact that he is militarizing and deploying the Guard for the purpose of policing Americans' protest activity, right, our freedom of speech, our freedom of assembly. And there's a very big stark demarcation between military troops and law enforcement. Public law enforcement. Civilian law enforcement. And you are an army turned inside to police its citizens can cause chaos and fascism. And so, I think that’s the way - GOLDBERG: Civil war. HOSTIN: And civil war. I think that’s the way we need to look at it, because deploying the National Guard is supposed to be last resort. But what this president is doing, is that he is saying he's going to deploy them anywhere in this country where there is protests. So, that's certainly not a last resort use of, you know, military troops. (…) 11:06:21 a.m. Eastern ANA NAVARRO: Today, he is sending in the National Guard to attack the protesters, who are there. And look, this for me hits really close. I'm Latino. I'm an immigrant. These are my people who getting dragged through the streets. I want to say to the Latino community, we must be strategic, we must be nonviolent. We have the right to protest, we are Americans, this is our country, we have the right to free speech, but we can't fall into the trap that Donald Trump is setting of wanting to turn this into violent protests and distract from his feud with Elon Musk. (…) SARA HAINES: He wants to create a scene, he wants to say, I was justified in sending in the National Guard because look at how violent these protesters are, they were not, until this was exacerbated. I think he has a strategy here. He is losing support in every area, inflation, economy, tariffs, foreign policy, his ratings are dropping like rocks. NAVARRO: Even on immigration he’s losing people. HAINES: But there's one catch here. HOSTIN: Is it under 30 percent? HAINES: Current support right now, though, is that 66 percent of the American public actually think it is crime enough to be undocumented and therefore deported. HOSTIN: That it's criminal to be undocumented? HAINES: Yes. It’s not – You know how the disagreement in the beginning we were told it was going to be violent criminals. And I think everyone at this table would agree haul out the violent criminals, fine. But a very important distinction was, 60 percent of the American public, two-thirds of independents, 90 percent of Republicans, and just a little under half of Democrats think the crime is in being undocumented. ALYSSA AFRAH GRIFFIN: Even if it's a civil offense. Yeah, that’s true. HAINES: Yes. So, what I’m saying is, a massive amount of this country actually agrees with not how he’s doing it, but what he’s doing. HOSTIN: So, there's misinformation out there. HAINES: So, I think the strategy here is he's leaning into a scene right now, creating it a bigger thing, cause it’s the one thing that he remains supported in. HOSTIN: So, let’s fix that right now because it is not illegal to be undocumented! It is not a crime to be undocumented! People are not illegal! [Crosstalk] HOSTIN: We need to put that information out there. It's a civil infraction. Not criminal. FARAH GRIFFIN: And I don’t think it’s actually broadly a misunderstanding. I think that 60 percent of Americans believe it's a civil offense and that if you come here and you're undocumented you should be deported. (…) 11:12:37 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: What is it?! Are we about state's rights? Are we about keeping people in or out? Are you out because you got here in a different way because you fled the nation you lived in and maybe you were able to get in and now you've been trying to stay and doing it right and you're still getting thrown out?! So what is it?! Is this just pure fascism that's happening?! Is this what's going on?! HOSTIN: Well, there are indications of fascism. GOLDBERG: Well, you know, it feels like, if you're telling me as an American I can't protest, if you're telling me that I can't come here and try to stay because I'm afraid to go back to my country. That doesn't sound like America to me. That's not the America I know. (…)