We might as well call off baseball.
Additionally, all of Los Angeles’ doughnut shops ought to be closed while the investigation is ongoing for safety’s sake.
Federal officials were stationed near Dodger Stadium on Thursday, but they were refused admission, possibly because some Dodgers fans are undocumented.
Or there might be an other explanation.
In Major League Baseball, around 25% of the players are foreign-born. According to what I gather, those immigrants have visas, but the Trump administration has made it plain that having a temporary protected legal status does not ensure that they won’t be ejected. From the nation, not from a game.
Has anyone recently looked at Shohei Ohtani’s papers? Or those of Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Kim Hye-seong, or Teoscar Hernndez?
The donuts, what about them?
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It’s unknown if anyone in the neighborhood was arrested or what operation the federal officers were conducting. Social media was instantly filled with pictures of the government cars.
The fact that many doughnut shops in Los Angeles are operated by immigrants is well known. Therefore, the fact that investigators detained a number of males at a bus stop close to Winchell’s Donut House in Pasadena on Wednesday cannot be a coincidence.
On social media, state representative Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) shared a video and comments.
As you can see, these ICE officers are pointing weapons at defenseless people without any justifications or warrants—just intimidation and terror. Agents wearing masks and carrying militia-style weapons are an utterly abhorrent misuse of authority, Chu said.
There has never been a greater threat to this nation. Immigrants working as day laborers at construction sites, manufacturing doughnuts, playing baseball, and changing the diapers of elderly people with cognitive and physical impairments.
Despite all of that, it can occasionally be challenging to understand the Trump administration’s perspective.
We were informed one day that 3,000 arrests per day was the goal.
Trump then abruptly changed his mind, declaring that raids on farms, hotels, and restaurants would stop because he had discovered through startling employers that our very aggressive immigration policy was displacing excellent, long-term employees from their places, with those positions being nearly impossible to fill.
The administration then returns to targeting everyone almost immediately.
I have a suspicion as to why.
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There is a growing conflict between individuals attempting to protect immigrants and immigration officers making arrests on the street. A 20-year-old Walmart employee was taken into custody following a contentious altercation with police in the Pico Rivera suburb of Los Angeles.
First of all, it’s important to note that the president has historically struggled with consistency—so much so that he ought to always wear flip-flops. To bed, to the golf course, to the Oval Office. Everywhere.
But even though we’re accustomed to his speaking one thing and acting another, I believe there’s more going on here.
Trump is not a man who takes failure well, and while he has fulfilled some of his campaign pledges, he has broken important ones.
A new era of American affluence was set to dawn, and grocery costs were expected to reduce on Day 1.
How are things going, people?
Before he ever assumed office, he was going to stop the war in Ukraine and then end the war in the Middle East.
Hmmmmmmmm.
With his friend Elon Musk in the forefront, he was set to usher in a new era of budget accountability.
That divorce was swift and unpleasant, and the national debt has increased by $3 trillion as a result of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
Given that Trump enjoys watching television, it is reasonable to suppose that he must have seen TV footage of millions of Americans marching at No Kings Day protests across the nation, including in red states, after throwing a military parade for his birthday party on Saturday.
Aww.
Regarding a particular wife who hasn’t spent much time in the White House, I’m wondering if Trump saw the same placard I saw at the El Segundo demonstration: America shouldn’t have to live with him if Melania doesn’t.
Under pressure, weak guys stretch their muscles.
Trump has the right and will deport. He won’t be deterred even if it destroys the economy.
While you can, go to a Dodgers game and buy plenty of doughnuts.
Steve Lopez at La Times
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