Is Trump’s Illegal Crackdown Getting The Cartels?

In a shock­ing move, an LA City Coun­cil­woman alleged­ly pressed the LAPD to warn of ICE raids, spark­ing accu­sa­tions of obstruct­ing jus­tice amid Trump’s immi­gra­tion crack­down. As the “No Kings” protests loom nation­wide, ICE’s arrest of 17 con­struc­tion work­ers in Beth­le­hem, PA, ignites ten­sions in the new­ly flipped Repub­li­can PA‑7 dis­trict, near Lehigh County’s large Puer­to Rican com­mu­ni­ty. Crit­ics claim undoc­u­ment­ed immi­grants strain schools, hos­pi­tals, and jobs, with car­tels alleged­ly oper­at­ing in every state. Fears of work­place raids dis­rupt­ing con­struc­tion, farms, and pro­cess­ing plants raise con­cerns about emp­ty shelves and soar­ing prices. Are these chaot­ic sweeps tar­get­ing the right threats, or will dis­or­ga­nized enforce­ment fuel big­ger protests?

• LA City Coun­cil woman ask­ing the police chief to obstruct jus­tice in warn­ing when anoth­er agency is com­ing into the city to arrest peo­ple. 
• Tomor­row is No Kings protest over Trump’s immi­gra­tion crack­down across the US. ICE arrests 17 con­struc­tion work­ers at fire-dam­aged Beth­le­hem apart­ment build­ing. Many want them all to be removed. Why is this huge? This is dis­trict PA‑7, it is a fresh repub­li­can dis­trict, not even a year old repub­li­can dis­trict flipped from demo­c­rat. Right next to this is LeHigh Coun­ty with the largest Puer­to Rican pop­u­la­tion. This is all true –”many of them are rapists, mur­der­ers, and ter­ror­ists. This tsuna­mi of ille­gals has destroyed Amer­i­cans’ pub­lic schools, hos­pi­tals, parks, com­mu­ni­ty resources and liv­ing con­di­tions. They have stolen Amer­i­can jobs, con­sumed bil­lions of dol­lars in free wel­fare and turned once idyl­lic com­mu­ni­ties like Spring­field OH into third world night­mares.” The bor­der is secure. There should have been a bet­ter plan. We have car­tels oper­at­ing in every state. 
• The peo­ple now are in fear of going to work. Right now you have to pri­or­i­tize. ICE should be going into these apart­ment com­plex­es to pro­tect the chil­dren and women from the rapists and the drugs and the car­tels. Your local law enforce­ment knows where they are locat­ed in your com­mu­ni­ties. But when you go to the Home Depot to chase 100 through the park­ing lot that are only there to cut grass. And you go to con­struc­tion sites and pro­cess­ing plants, if you want things to come to a screech­ing stand still, you have to pri­or­i­tize how to go after this. You talk about tar­iffs and how the prices are going to go up but no one will talk about the con­struc­tion com­pa­nies that do not have the peo­ple not show­ing up for the job and can­not get the job done and the prices start going up. The same thing at the pro­cess­ing plants and farms. Are you ready? You want emp­ty shelves, the grass not cut, water­mel­ons stay in the field, the linens not changed. The mess has been made. Go into these places where the car­tels are oper­at­ing, the local law enforce­ment knows where the gangs are oper­at­ing. These ral­lies will increase in large num­bers across the coun­try if a more orga­nized approach is not tak­en.