Legal Insurrection has been on top of the protests and violent demonstrations arising in many sanctuary cities arising from the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts to deport illegal immigrants.
Essentially, the movement is a clear effort on the part of Democrats to create the Hispanic version of 2020’s Summer of BLM.
Of course, these actions have several consequences that can be quite painful for local residents. For example, the city of Los Angeles has incurred nearly $20 million in police costs and other expenses in response to protests that were ginned up by its inept mayor, Karen Bass.
City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo said in a memo to the City Council that the city has incurred at least $19.7 million in costs through June 16. The Los Angeles Police Department has spent $16.9 million, including $11.7 million for overtime.Other costs include $780,601 to repair damage at City Hall, the LAPD’s headquarters on 1st Street, and other city buildings.Some estimates, excluding the police, run only through June 13 and the tally is expected to increase.Protesters have held near-daily demonstrations in downtown L.A. since immigration agents raided a fast-fashion warehouse on June 6. Some protests have become violent and police have deployed tear gas canisters and shot less-lethal munitions. The LAPD said Monday that 575 people have been arrested since the demonstrations started.
Tear gas canisters and rubber bullets aren’t cheap.
However, if Bass is thinking to ask Washington, D.C. for monies to fix the place up, she is going to get rejected as quickly as Sacramento denied her efforts to get monies for wildfire recovery.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy recently announced that the Department of Transportation (DOT) will not provide federal funds to repair damage from riots in cities that, according to him, failed to prevent destruction or did not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
“The @USDOT will NOT fund rogue state actors who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement,” Duffy wrote on X on Monday. “And to cities that stand by while rioters destroy transportation infrastructure — don’t expect a red cent from DOT, either. Follow the law, or forfeit the funding.”Duffy’s comments come after President Donald Trump issued a directive for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to target Democratic-run cities to deport unauthorized immigrants.On Truth Social, Trump ordered ICE agents “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”“In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” he added.
As Hot Air’s Beege Welborne notes, Duffy is taking to “no one is above the law” like a duck to water.
This latest salvo from Duffy is nothing new, though. It’s only reinforcing his original stand from back in April. The Secretary of Transportation was quite clear about tying federal DOT funds to ICE and immigration cooperation even before overpass and bollard chunks began flying.He sent around an official notice to all DOT grant recipients about following the ‘letter of the law,’ which meant ALL laws, in order to remain eligible for federal funds.
It is going to be fascinating to see Bass and her minions scramble to get the city presentable ahead of the 2028 Olympics. Maybe if China’s leader Xi Jiping comes to support his country’s athletes, Bass and California Gavin Newsom will find extra incentive to make the city civilized.
As Bass has recently been linked to Chinese Intel, she might actually be motivated to serve her city.
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