Anti-ICE Protesters Shut Down 101 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles
Many Californians hope protest antics help identify those most in need of repatriation.
Times continue to be hard in California.
Not only is the Los Angeles area endeavoring to recover from the devastating wildfires, but now protestors are staging massive demonstrations and shutting down one of its most important freeways.
A large group of people protesting recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids have walked onto the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles near the Alameda Street exit, according to police.
Both sides of the freeway are currently blocked, officials said, and both north and southbound lanes are under major gridlock in the DTLA area.
“Protests in LA have already been announced and I better see everyone there!!!! Feb 2nd Placita Olvera 9am! If you love our culture, our food, our music, then you should be there too!!!” a social media post said of the protest.
Around half an hour later, the Los Angeles Police Department declared it a “non-permitted demonstration,” and advised people to expect traffic delays in the area.
Anti-ICE protestors have shut down the 101 Freeway in LA pic.twitter.com/bdRRJcC9L2
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 2, 2025
Tom Homan’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted several raids in California last weekend, in various California cities, including San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego. These raids are part of a larger immigration enforcement effort that has resulted in numerous arrests across the country.
While they were here, ICE officials indicated this was only the beginning.
Immigration enforcement actions took place across San Diego County over the weekend, leading to several arrests. It was part of a bigger, nationwide raid that, according to federal officials, resulted in nearly 1,000 arrests nationwide.
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s San Diego division released images showing some of the migrants arrested during the raids. Federal agents confirmed 956 arrests were made on Sunday alone. Federal agencies across the country are not providing how many arrests happened in which jurisdiction.
“If you’re in the country illegally, it’s not ok. It’s not ok to violate laws of this country,” said Tom Homan, President Trump’s Border Czar, speaking about the weekend raids.
While local non-profits that assist migrants say it’s unclear how many of those arrests occurred specifically in San Diego County, Homan made it clear that this is just the beginning of increased enforcement efforts.
In response, protests were organized this past Friday in the San Diego area community of National City, replete with Mexican flags and outrage.
Hundreds of people gathered in National City Friday afternoon to protest against President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.
The protest at 1021 Highland Ave. began at 3:30 p.m., just a couple hours before a separate gathering in North County’s Vista Village that is scheduled to take place at 5 p.m.
Reports of the local events came after Trump declared Wednesday he would sign an executive order directing federal officials to open up a facility intended to hold tens of thousands of deported migrants.
A protest against ICE turned into a riot in National City, California. pic.twitter.com/ixVagPz4DD
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 1, 2025
In Oxnard, an American flag burned as part of the outrage festivities.
Dozens of Oxnard students walked out of class on Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s new immigration policies, days after ICE raids and arrests were reported in the area.
Students in the Oxnard Union High School District took to the streets around 10 a.m. for a “Walk Out Against Deportation,” according to fliers, carrying posters, signs and flags, to speak out against the President’s latest moves on immigration. Video from the protests showed cars driving by, apparently honking in support of the students.
Illegals in Oxnard, California are burning American flags to protest mass deportations.
ICE needs to deport this entire mob immediately.
The illegal are out in the open. No need to ask for Gavin Newsom’s help.pic.twitter.com/qeR1CE8St9
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 2, 2025
Many Californians hope these antics help identify those most in need of repatriation.
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Agree – pols can no longer put up with this garbage. Accountability for criminal activities has been missing for years; some places, decades.
You protest, you get removed. If here illegally, gotta go home.
pols can no longer put up with this garbage.
+100 “Bloqeos” of highways have been absolutely crippling in the state where I serve in Latin America.
I have no idea what point you are trying to make…
“+100” means that I agreed completely with the person to whom I was responding. The rest of my post presents one of my reasons: blockades of highways have crippled the region where I live in Latin America.
(It did look like you were counting bloqueos.)
Roadblocks in Latin America? My immediate reaction is Bolivia. DuckDuckGo:Bolivia bloqueos.
These videos show recent roadblocks, but roadblocks/blocqueos have a long history in Bolivia. And I mean LONG and I mean PROMINENT. Roadblocks have long played a prominent role in Bolivian politics. One more reason why Bolivia and anarchy are near synonyms.
I should have used English. DuckDuckGo_ Bolivia roadblocks.
It would funny to inform those people that they are subject to civil damages, and that if they do not pay they be liquidated for organ processing to satisfy their debts.
Keep up the narrative for a few months until the are crapping their drawers.
Then actually sue them for damages, they can have the debt an constant garnishments for much if not all their lives.
It would be extremely amusing to start a rumor that ICE is organizing the demonstrations in order to entice the illegals into gathering at one place where they can more efficiently be arrested.
That the organizers are feeding their contact list to ICE.
Better still, make it not a rumor 🙂 ICE should totally do this (and who knows, perhaps it is).
heh
Someone posted about this idiocy on Quora and ask excitedly “Who’s going?!”
I told him “I bet ICE is.”
What a novel idea. Just get them on camera and then hung them down over the next few weeks
It would be more effective to take buses semi, etc. to the event, raid in mass, round them up.
This is OUR Country
Not Mexicos
Doesn’t look like it.
This was eminently predictable. What is now needed is the stones to deal with it appropriately.
Pretty sure this sort of stupidity isn’t gonna be effective in doing anything but PO normies and hardening hearts.
“Illegals in Oxnard, California are burning American flags to protest mass deportations.”
Reminds me of the peaceful Palestinians in Gaza and their intertwined relationship with Hamas where everybody is related to everybody else and there’s not much difference between them except in parsing words.
“While local non-profits that assist migrants…”
There’s a big part of the problem right there. Where is their money coming from? (Looks in mirror – suspects guy in reflection is having it garnished weekly).
Stop funding the continued existence of illegal aliens and put a 100% tariff on wire transfers and you’ll be able to drive in LA again
Where’s Chuck Heston when you need him?”
He could even infiltrate the tranny community as Ben Her.
“Bring in the scoop trucks”
Need to crack down hard on this; otherwise, they will continue.
Ever seen “Soylent Green”? We need scoop trucks.
Could be interest if there is chain deportation as a result.
Terrorism, straight up.
I’m sure blocking the highway and preventing people from going to work or home or to the ER will convince them to support the illegals’ cause.
They’re not trying to do that. They don’t care about gaining support. It’s all about intimidation and exercising power.
Or, in another word, terrorism.
burning American flags while waving.a Mexican flag is a surefire way to win over the hearts and minds of the American populace.
Yeah, they don’t care about hearts or minds. They don’t care if they’re hated; they want to be feared. And simply to take revenge.
Democrat shit-hole
Decades ago students at my high school held a protest over a new policy from the school board that would change the very foundation of the school.
The protest went from legitimate (and was supported by teachers) to a free for all. The teachers were not happy.
One particular geometry / calculus teacher held a pop quiz.
As the students had been shown as attending school, the pop quiz went something like “Mr. Jones, how much is 2+2?”
As there was no student to answer but the student was supposed to be there, he then said “don’t know lad? Zero.”
It would have been great if the Oxnard High School had done the same thing.
Life – including protests – has consequences.
Let the students deal with a lower GPA.
(Some may care, some may not.)
When they flunk out they’re targets for deportation because they didn’t keep their heads down. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Except they won’t flunk out. The teachers nowadays will give them bonus points for attending the “protest”.
this works,too. Can the teachers who do this. thin that herd right along with the illegal invaders.
Lock into low range 4×4, engage limited slip, lay on the horn, and run it up to 1800 rpm in manual 1st. At 3 mph it is their choice to get crushed and ground up.
Drive by slowly while spraying them with deer musk, essence of polecat, or something else equally noxious. They’ll dissipate.
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That ought to be legal, but unfortunately is not.
How does whoever wrote that know that the people doing that are here illegally? Granted that aliens who are here legally are unlikely to do that; but there are plenty of US citizens who hate the USA enough to do that, and know that they can’t be arrested for it and probably won’t be arrested for anything else they do either.
Blocking the freeway IS grounds for arrest. Do it.
These antics are primarily disrupting the lives of Blue State voters who brought this on themselves, so could serve a useful purpose.
If the local police aren’t arresting them and clearing the highway pronto, ICE should come and arrest everyone involved, on suspicion of being here illegally, and then process them. Those who turn out to be here legally should be handed over to the local police, together with bodycam documentation of what they were doing (including resisting arrest if they did so), and the DA informed that if they are not prosecuted ICE will want to know why.
Hopefully, the protestors are headed south. Very south.
I was at Barnes and Noble picking up a book for my wife. I asked the clerk about the new Trump book about his policy for deporting illegals.. She looked at me hard, and said “Get out of here, right now, and don’t ever come back!”
I said “Yeah, that’s the one. Do you have that in paperback?”
That’s good
I did notice this lot had enough sense (unlike the pro-terrorist Hamasniks) to throw their tantrum on a Sunday instead of screwing up our commute today.
Though, tbf, the day is young.
They are largely inconveniencing LA voters.
I mean what happens if Jimmy Kimmel is late for work?????
The horror.
California reaps what it has sewn. (snickering)
It’s hard to understand how burning flags and blocking freeways endears people to your cause.
Isn’t this crime known as a public Newsom?
Next year when Ron DeSantis term limits out as Governor of Florida, elect him as Governor o California, so he can pass the law he did in Florida that prevents this.
Legal in Florida blocking a roadway is treated as a hostage taking event. Victims can do whatever they deem necessary to escape, including running over protestors and the law says that in such a situation there is no duty to stop and render first aid. Since the law went into effect there was only one event and the local police were there in such force that the drivers did not have to make impromptu speed bumps out of protestors.
Legally in Florida…
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Governors can’t pass laws. It was the legislature that passed it, perhaps at his request, but even if he somehow magically became governor in California (how?) the legislature would not agree to pass such a law.