MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER: Imagine . . . a group of Americans . . . were in Mexico City and began throwing bricks at police officers, smashing store windows, setting fire to government vehicles, and waving the American flag. We would not walk away unharmed

This is a must watch to understand what is really happening in California. Thank you @shellenberger for breaking it down so succinctly 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/aKlziQJKnW

— Michelle Maxwell (@MichelleMaxwell) June 9, 2025

A lot of people are upset about all these images of rioters in Los Angeles, waving the Mexican flag.  If protesters love Mexico so much, people are asking why they're so upset when the US enforces laws against illegal entry?  Imagine for a moment that a group of Americans, including myself, were in Mexico City and began throwing bricks at police officers, smashing store windows, setting fire to government vehicles, and waving the American flag.  We would not walk away unharmed, and yet in Los Angeles protesters did exactly that.  They attacked law enforcement, blocked ICE agents, and vandalized public buildings, and yet California leaders not only didn't defend the law but condemned those who tried to enforce it.  Governor Gavin Newsom called the deployment of 2000 National Guard troops to restore order "Purposely inflammatory."  LA Mayor, Karen Bass, said, "We will not stand for this," referring not to the attacks on police officers or destruction of public property, but to the federal response.  She reaffirmed her administration's ties to advocates of illegal immigration and made clear her allegiance was with the protesters not law enforcement what is truly inflammatory is not sending in National Guard it's standing by while mobs pelt law enforcement with bricks and fireworks then accusing those officers of oppression it's watching public spaces descend into chaos while calling the enforcement of laws the problem in wealthy neighborhoods the law is still being enforced if you torch a car in Beverly Hills the neighbors are going to demand that you are arrested if you do it in East LA while shouting political slogans you are engaging in protest this two-tiered enforcement is not Progressive, it's segregation by another name it creates one set of expectations for the politically connected and another for the disposable and in that framework working people especially immigrants families and hourly wage earners are abandoned they're the ones who walk their kids past the open air drug dealing they're the ones who shops are looted and whose cars are stolen