US Marines to deploy to Los Angeles to help quell anti-ICE riots

A battalion of 500 U.S. Marines are mobilizing to Los Angeles to respond to anti-immigration enforcement riots, Fox News has learned. The Marines will be tasked with protecting federal property and federal personnel, according to a senior defense official, and the deployment is open-ended. The Marines will not be carrying out a law enforcement role, but it’s unclear what their use of force rules are if protesters throw things or spit at them. DOZENS OF ANTI-ICE RIOTERS ARRESTED IN LA AS TRUMP SENDS IN NATIONAL GUARD TO QUELL VIOLENCE The new deployment comes after President Donald Trump sent some 2,000 National Guardsmen to the riot-racked city over the weekend. The Marines are from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines at Twentynine Palms, California. Moments before the deployment, Trump expressed optimism that the situation in Los Angeles is improving. “I mean, I think we have it very well under control,” he told reporters. “I think it would have been a very bad situation. It was heading in the wrong direction. It’s now heading in the right direction.” The Marine mobilization is sure to draw outcry from liberal critics: California Gov. Gavin Newsom filed suit against the Trump administration on Monday for deploying the Guard. The governor’s office both downplayed the troop movement and called it “completely uncalled for.” “From our understanding, this is moving Marines from one base to another base. At this time, the information we have is that Marines are not being deployed (there is a difference between that and being mobilized). The level of escalation is completely unwarranted, uncalled for, and unprecedented — mobilizing the best in class branch of the U.S. military against its own citizens,” Newsom’s press office wrote on X. Newsom and the California attorney general claimed Trump and Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth “trampled over” California’s sovereignty by calling up the state’s National Guard without Newsom’s approval. Meanwhile Trump defended the decision on Monday, and added that if protesters spit in the face of guardsmen in Los Angeles, they’ll “be hit harder than they have ever been hit before.” “IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT,” Trump wrote. “Such disrespect will not be tolerated!” Federal law typically bars the U.S. military from carrying out domestic law enforcement purposes, unless the president invokes the Insurrection Act. Newsom claimed Trump is trying to “manufacture a crisis” and that the president is “hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.” The protests began in reaction to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the City of Angels as the Trump administration moves to make good on its promise of mass deportations. Over the weekend, protests devolved into violence that left vehicles charred to a crisp and windows smashed at the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters.
Maxine Waters torched by feds for ‘taunting’ guardsmen and ‘spewing lies’ about riots, trying to enter jail

A top Homeland Security official lambasted Rep. Maxine Waters for “lies” about the peacefulness of the riots and her efforts to force entry into a detention center to meet a detained union leader. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital on Monday that access to the Los Angeles detention facility was “temporarily restricted” to ensure the safety of both detainees and uniformed personnel – when Waters hurried toward a group of guardsmen entering a plywood-protected door to the building over the weekend. The 86-year-old, 18-term Democrat approached the guardsmen saying, “Hello, hello, hello — I’m Congresswoman Waters,” but the last one bluntly told her to talk to “public affairs” and slammed the door. “As a result, Congresswoman Maxine Waters was denied entry,” McLaughlin said of that exchange. MAXINE WATERS TAUNTS ARMED AGENTS AFTER FEDS SLAM DOOR ON HER DURING LA RIOTS: ‘YOU BETTER SHOOT STRAIGHT’ “The safety and security of DHS personnel, ICE agents, and those in our custody remain our top priority.” Going on to reference when Waters, D-Calif., hollered at assembled armed guardsmen on the street and asked if they planned to shoot her, McLaughlin said the lawmaker’s efforts could be better used elsewhere. “Instead of taunting national guard members, the congresswoman should be trying to defuse these violent riots,” she said. “Elected officials need to tone down their dangerous rhetoric about ICE law enforcement.” President Donald Trump had federalized the California National Guard, and Waters accused him of not properly informing Gov. Gavin Newsom, in one clip of comments to reporters. DHS also rebuked Waters’ summary appearance on TV following clips of her various confrontations going viral: “This morning on CNN, the congresswoman spewed lies that these riots have not been violent,” McLaughlin said. MCCARTHY: MAXINE WATERS FINDS ‘VALUE IN VIOLENCE’ “The American people can see with their own eyes the truth. Rioters have assaulted law enforcement officers, thrown rocks, burned American flags, set cars on fires, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and taxpayer-funded property.” “The violent targeting of law enforcement in Los Angeles by lawless rioters is despicable and Congresswoman Waters must call for it to end.” Waters had told anchor Wolf Blitzer that “everybody was wondering what happened to” David Huerta, the SEIU leader detained during one of the immigration raids that sparked the violence. She said she was wearing a congressional emblem on her jacket but lamented that the guardsmen still didn’t allow her in. She called protests in the immediate area “very small and very peaceful – there was no animosity.” Waters also expressed concern that the assembled guardsmen were armed, saying that “Trump has instigated all of this.” “My message to Donald Trump, you are a cruel human being — and you are using the poorest people in the land… to promote your politics,” Waters said separately. “His ridiculousness has taken over the armed services to celebrate his birthday coming up,” Waters added, referring to the president’s planned military parade to signify the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army – which will also coincide with Flag Day and his 79th birthday. In a statement on the incident, Waters said she went to the Metropolitan Detention Center to check on Huerta – whom the SEIU said was “caught” in one of a series of ICE raids in Los Angeles County the union described as “a violent sweep.” Waters also alluded to another viral clip she produced, which showed her taunting armed agents standing in formation in another part of the city. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “I pled [sic] with the National Guard, which was heavily armed, not to use their weapons against peaceful demonstrators who were simply exercising their rights to freedom of speech and protest,” Waters said in a statement posted to X, formerly Twitter. “All people deserve to be treated with dignity and due process under the law: Peaceful, nonviolent demonstrations are critical to protecting our constitutional rights.” “The President of the United States is a cruel, dishonorable human being,” she said, adding that he and others would “just as soon” like to see agents “shoot somebody down.” When filmed confronting National Guardsmen on the street, Waters shouted, “You’re gonna shoot an elected official? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight.” Fox News Digital reached out to Waters’ office for additional comment, but she could not immediately be reached.
Federal funds to Los Angeles, sanctuary cities blocking ICE on chopping block in new House GOP bill

FIRST ON FOX: A new House GOP bill would see sanctuary cities like Los Angeles lose their federal funds if they refuse to comply with federal immigration authorities. “I mean, we’ve had far too many instances where we have seen someone lose their lives at the hands of someone that’s in this country illegally,” Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., told Fox News Digital. “These sanctuary cities have gone out of their way to ignore federal law for far too long. And it’s time that we get serious and we put teeth to things.” RIOTERS SMASH WINDOWS AT LAPD HEADQUARTERS AS ANTI-ICE AGITATORS CLASH WITH AUTHORITIES He’s introducing the Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act on Tuesday, Fox News Digital is first learning, which has a Senate companion bill introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. The bill would allow the executive branch to withhold federal funds from states, cities, or other localities that refuse to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On a more granular level, it would also empower state and local officers to work with federal authorities, even if the laws within their operating jurisdictions mandate otherwise. CALIFORNIA LT. GOVERNOR SAYS LOS ANGELES RIOTS ARE ‘GENERATED BY DONALD TRUMP’ Langworthy said that provision is critical to officers in his Buffalo-anchored district. New York’s Green Light Law, he explained, both allowed illegal immigrants to get driver’s licenses and prevented sharing state DMV records with federal authorities. “That really got my attention when I met with ICE at the beginning of the year, and I met with Customs and Border Patrol agents in Buffalo during the Biden administration. They said that this is the largest impediment they have to do their jobs,” Langworthy said. For a traffic stop, he said, “They think they know who’s in the car, but they can’t run the tags because they’re New York tags, and they’re taking their lives into their own hands on every single apprehension request.” The push to defund sanctuary jurisdictions comes after a weekend of violence on the other side of the country, where rioters in Los Angeles clashed with federal authorities over ICE raids in the blue stronghold city. Democratic officials have criticized President Donald Trump for sending the National Guard in over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, while Republicans have blasted those progressive leaders for doing little to help federal authorities amid the protests. Langworthy said he hoped the violence would stay in Los Angeles, and that political tensions would not make their way to liberal New York City. “I think the president setting the tone very early on, this will not be tolerated. We will federalize the National Guard and maintain law and order in the streets of our country,” he said. “Hopefully that is heard loud and clear across the country by anyone that looks to bring unrest to our streets and disrupt civil society.”
Dems walk back pro-cop, law and order rhetoric from J6 era in the face of spiraling immigration riots

Elected Democrats from coast to coast championed law and order and embraced law enforcement in the wake of the Jan. 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol in 2021, but have seemingly walked back such rhetoric in the face of federal law enforcement officials carrying out immigration raids in Los Angeles that have spiraled into riots. Democrats have increasingly condemned the immigration raids that began Friday in Los Angeles, claiming they were “illegal” and revealed alleged evidence of President Donald Trump’s “authoritarianism,” while attempting to characterize the riots as a result of the administration’s alleged overreach. “Inciting and provoking violence; Creating mass chaos; Militarizing cities; Arresting opponents,” Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on X Sunday. “These are the acts of a dictator, not a President.” CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS SLAM NEWSOM, BASS FOR LETTING LA BURN WITH RIOTS AMID TRUMP IMMIGRATION BLITZ “Deploying federalized troops on the heels of these raids is a chaotic escalation,” Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass posted to X Sunday. “The fear people are feeling in our city right now is very real – it’s felt in our communities and within our families and it puts our neighborhoods at risk. This is the last thing that our city needs, and I urge protesters to remain peaceful. I’ve been in touch this morning with immigrant rights leaders as well as local law enforcement officials. Los Angeles will always stand with everyone who calls our city home.” Federal law enforcement officials converged on the city Friday, with both Newsom and Bass issuing statements shortly thereafter denouncing the raids, which are part of Trump’s campaign vow to remove the millions of illegal immigrants who flooded the nation under the Biden administration. ‘LUNATIC’ DEMOCRAT RIPPED FOR ‘DEMONIC’ VIDEO MESSAGE DEMANDING ICE AGENTS ‘GET THE F— OUT’ AMID CA CHAOS Newsom, Bass and other local elected Democrats quickly sounded off that they did not support the raids, while offering words of support to illegal immigrants who reside in Los Angeles. “As Mayor of a proud city of immigrants, who contribute to our city in so many ways, I am deeply angered by what has taken place,” Bass, for example, said Friday. “These tactics sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city. My office is in close coordination with immigrant rights community organizations. We will not stand for this.” Protests against the raids soon devolved into violence over the weekend, as rioters targeted federal officials with rocks and other projectiles, set cars on fire, looted stores and took over 101 Freeway Sunday. Trump said Saturday that he was authorizing the deployment of 2,000 National Guard members to Southern California to help quell the violence as it spiraled, bypassing the governor who typically activates the National Guard during state emergencies. The White House has defended calling in the National Guard to restore law and order, after Democrats reportedly failed to control the increasingly violent protests and the LAPD declared an unlawful assembly in the city. Dozens of violent protesters have been arrested since Friday, according to local police. FEDERAL OFFICIALS SLAM DEMOCRATS FOR ‘DANGEROUS’ RHETORIC AS ICE AGENTS FACE VIOLENT MOBS IN LA, NYC “Gavin Newsom did nothing as violent riots erupted in Los Angeles for days,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X Monday. “Federal law enforcement officers were attacked by violent radicals and illegal criminals waving foreign flags because Governor Newsom was too weak to protect the city. The Los Angeles Police Chief has even said the riots were getting out of hand. President Trump has stepped in to maintain law and order and protect federal buildings.” As the riots raged, a handful of elected Democrats, as well as Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, have condemned the raids and federal officials cracking down on the protests, which stand in stark contrast to messages they issued in the 2021 era after Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 following the 2020 election. Democrats have long argued the Jan. 6 protest was a violent insurrection that trampled on the U.S. Constitution and threatened democracy when an estimated 2,000 people breached the Capitol building that day. CALIFORNIA LT. GOVERNOR SAYS LOS ANGELES RIOTS ARE ‘GENERATED BY DONALD TRUMP’ “ICE get the f— out of LA so that order can be restored,” Democratic California Rep. Norma Torres posted in a video on TikTok Friday of the raids, which received widespread backlash among conservative critics. But when addressing the Jan. 6 protest, Torres invoked the Constitution, celebrated law enforcement and disavowed the “chaos” seen at the Capitol in 2021. “The American people deserve leaders who will uphold the Constitution and protect our democracy from those who seek to destroy it,” Torres said in a statement in January criticizing Trump’s pardons of the vast majority of those charged in connection to the protest at the Capitol. “I call on my colleagues, regardless of party affiliation, to condemn this reckless abuse of power and to recommit ourselves to the principles of justice and accountability.” “I remember the sound of the mob banging on doors, the bravery of law enforcement officers who risked their lives to protect us, and the sense of betrayal as our sacred democratic institutions were desecrated,” she added. When asked about the disparity in comments, Torres said she has “always supported our local law enforcement – whether it be in Los Angeles or Washington, D.C.,” adding that the ICE raids is “entirely different.’ “LAPD is trained to handle this situation and have the resources to do so,” Torres told Fox News Digital on Monday. “What ICE is doing in California is entirely different – we’re witnessing ICE ignore federal law, people going missing, families being separated, and even American citizens being mistakenly detained. I do not support violent conduct, but I believe the Los Angeles Police Department can restore calm, and prosecute any violent offenders as needed. Bringing in the National Guard will only escalate tensions by introducing a weaponized military presence into the city.”
Trump says ‘disrespect’ toward National Guard in LA ‘will not be tolerated’: ‘If they spit, we will hit’

President Donald Trump said National Guard officers are authorized to hit back if “insurrectionists” spit in their faces, warning that “such disrespect will not be tolerated.” The president, on Monday, blasted the “catastrophic” riots across Los Angeles in protest of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts. The president posted to his Truth Social a “statement from the President of the United States concerning the catastrophic Gavin Newscum inspired Riots going on in Los Angeles.” LIVE UPDATES: ANTI-ICE PROTEST DECLARED ‘UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY,’ NEWSOM DARES HOMAN TO ARREST HIM “The Insurrectionists have a tendency to spit in the face of the National Guardsmen/women, and others,” Trump posted. “These Patriots are told to accept this, it’s just the way life runs. But not in the Trump Administration.” “IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT, and I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before,” the president said. He added: “Such disrespect will not be tolerated.”
Trump admin sanctions El Chapo’s children, violent fentanyl-trafficking cartel arm Los Chapitos

The Trump administration is sanctioning El Chapo’s children and Los Chapitos – a fentanyl trafficking faction of the violent Sinaloa cartel, Fox News Digital has learned. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Los Chapitos, which controls laboratories responsible for introducing fentanyl in counterfeit pills manufactured by the Sinaloa cartel and trafficked to the United States. Gunmen linked to the Sinaloa cartel were involved in the Oct. 18, 2024, killing of U.S. Marine veteran Nicholas Quets in Sonora, Mexico. FLASHBACK: FAMILY OF MARINE VETERAN MURDERED IN MEXICO BACKS TRUMP, VANCE AFTER SILENCE FROM BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN Additionally, the Treasury Department designated the two sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera: Archivaldo Ivan Guzman Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar. “Los Chapitos is a powerful, hyperviolent faction of the Sinaloa cartel at the forefront of fentanyl trafficking in the United States,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday. “At the Department of the Treasury, we are executing on President Trump’s mandate to completely eliminate drug cartels and take on violent leaders like ‘El Chapo’s’ children.” TRUMP, VANCE MEET WITH FAMILY OF MARINE VETERAN KILLED OFF MEXICAN HIGHWAY BY SUSPECTED CARTEL MEMBERS Bessent added that the Treasury Department is “maximizing all available tools to stop the fentanyl crisis and help save lives.” The Treasury Department on Monday also sanctioned a regional network of Los Chapitos associates and businesses based in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, that allegedly engages in drug tracking, extortion, kidnapping and money laundering. The Treasury Department coordinated with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to take the action Monday. Nicholas Douglas Quets, a 31-year-old Marine veteran who worked for Pima County, Arizona, on water reclamation projects, was shot and killed along the Caborca-Altar Highway in northern Mexico on Oct. 18, 2024. Quets’ father, Doug, who served 20 years in the U.S. Army and another 20 years in federal law enforcement, expressed his family’s “deep and enduring gratitude to President Trump and his entire Cabinet for unwaveringly using every instrument of national power in the pursuit of justice for our beloved Nicholas.” “Nicholas Quets was an innocent American and proud U.S. Marine veteran whose bright future was stolen on October 18, 2024, when he was ambushed just south of the U.S. border by a heavily armed cell of the Sinaloa cartel,” Quets said in a statement. “Cowards in cartel insignia – more than two dozen strong – pursued Nicholas and fatally shot him in the back, through the heart, during a failed carjacking, only after confirming his status as an American.” Quets added: “This was not just murder – it was a deliberate act of terror against a known American citizen.” Quets said the Treasury Department’s designation of the Sinaloa cartel as a foreign terrorist organization was a “vital first step in honoring Nicholas’ memory and protecting other Americans from suffering similar tragedies.” “Secretary Bessent’s decisive action to target the Sinaloa cartel’s financial networks strikes at the heart of this transnational threat,” Quets said. “Disrupting their ability to move money, launder profits and bribe officials is essential to dismantling this criminal empire.”
California to sue Trump, Hegseth over National Guard deployment amid anti-ICE riots

California will sue the Trump administration over its decision to activate National Guard Soliders in Los Angeles County over the weekend, the state’s Democratic leaders announced on Monday. California Attorney General Rob Bonta claimed in a statement that President Donald Trump abused his authority by invoking Title 10, a law that allows the president to mobilize the National Guard if an invasion or rebellion is underway. “President Trump’s order calling federalized National Guard troops into Los Angeles – over the objections of the Governor and local law enforcement – is unnecessary and counterproductive.” Bonta said. Bonta added that there was “no invasion” and “no rebellion” in California. “The President is trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for his own political ends,” Bonta said. The California attorney general’s office said a copy of the complaint against the administration would be available soon. This is a breaking story. Check back for updates.
LA immigration riots ‘preventable’ if Sacramento Dems had acted, GOP says: ‘Failed policies caused chaos’

The ongoing Los Angeles riots could have been stopped in Sacramento and not have reached the point of federal intervention if Democrats had passed a Republican effort to improve coordination between state, local and federal law enforcement in terms of immigration, GOP leaders said. “Federal authorities doing the vital work of immigration enforcement have been met with obstruction and violence on the streets in Los Angeles,” California Assembly Minority Leader James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, told Fox News Digital on Monday. “Make no mistake: These agitators and failed California policies caused this chaos. It will not be tolerated and many of them have already found out,” Gallagher said. In that regard, Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, R-San Diego, said his caucus had a fix for the issues that led to the immigration raids that sparked the rioting. MAXINE WATERS TAUNTS ARMED AGENTS AFTER FEDS SLAM DOOR IN HER FACE “California Republicans had a solution in our Senate Bill 554, but the sanctuary city crowd brought this on themselves by prohibiting state and local law enforcement from cooperating with the feds to identify violent illegal immigrants in prisons and jails,” Jones said. SB 554 would have adjusted existing California law under the California Values Act, which generally prohibits state law enforcement from investigating, detaining or questioning suspects for immigration-related purposes. Instead, the bill, which Jones said Democrats had tanked, would have allowed for improved communication with federal immigration and law enforcement agencies. AK NATIVES SOUND OFF ON BIDEN ENERGY BANS AS TRUMP OFFICIALS TOUR TUNDRA “Now the feds have to run broader raids, like what we’re seeing in LA, which sweep up way more people,” Jones said. “This whole thing was easily preventable.” Just north of Jones’ hometown, he said the ICE raids that occurred leading up to the unrest were characterized by an increase in “collateral arrests,” a term used to describe illegal immigrants not specifically targeted by the feds in any particular operation who are also detained. That has happened, he said, because state and local authorities hadn’t handed over some of the targeted suspects in the first place. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Meanwhile, Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared to blame President Donald Trump for the unrest, saying it is “exactly what [he] wanted.” “He flamed the fires and illegally acted to federalize the National Guard.” Fox News Digital reached out to California Senate President Pro-Tempore Mike McGuire, R-Healdsburg, for response to Republicans’ comments.
DHS fires back at Democrats for ‘beyond the pale’ rhetoric as ICE agents face wave of violent threats

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is continuing to call on Democrats to tone down the rhetoric against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as riots not only persisted in Los Angeles Sunday night, but agents continue to face threats of doxxing and violence. The department has taken issue with not only California leaders but also House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. “The violent targeting of law enforcement in Los Angeles by lawless rioters is despicable and Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom must call for it to end,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a Saturday statement. “The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line to protect and defend the lives of American citizens.” ACTING ICE DIRECTOR CALLS MAYOR WU’S NEO-NAZI COMPARISON ‘DISGUSTING’ AMID INCREASE IN AGENT ASSAULTS “Make no mistake, Democrat politicians like Hakeem Jeffries, Mayor Wu of Boston, Tim Walz, and Mayor Bass of Los Angeles are contributing to the surge in assaults of our ICE officers through their repeated vilification and demonization of ICE,” McLaughlin stated. “From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi Gestapo to glorifying rioters, the violent rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is beyond the pale. This violence against ICE must end.” The department says there’s been a 413% increase in assaults against ICE agents, which comes as the riots in Los Angeles are centered against the presence of the agency in the city. Wu and Jeffries recently faced criticism for their comments on ICE agents masking while conducting sweeps to conceal their identity for safety reasons. “Every single ICE agent who is engaged in this aggressive overreach and are trying to hide their identities from the American people will be unsuccessful in doing that,” Jeffries said on Capitol Hill. “This is America. This is not the Soviet Union,” he added, saying identification is needed to comply with the law and have proper “transparency.” “We’re not behind the Iron Curtain. This is not the 1930s. And every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified.” Wu was slammed for comments where she drew a tie between ICE and neo-Nazi group Nationalist Social Club-131 for the masking decision, which DHS called “sickening,” according to the Boston Herald. FEDERAL OFFICIALS SLAM DEMOCRATS FOR ‘DANGEROUS’ RHETORIC AS ICE AGENTS FACE VIOLENT MOBS IN LA, NYC “I don’t know of any police department that routinely wears masks,” Wu said. “We know that there are other groups that routinely wear masks. NSC-131 routinely wears masks.” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2024, also controversially drew a comparison to the Nazis in May. CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE “I’m gonna start with the flashing red light — Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets,” Walz claimed at a University of Minnesota law school commencement speech. “They’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons. No chance to mount a defense. Not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye. Just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.” In California, the anti-ICE riots triggered an order from President Donald Trump to deploy to the National Guard, which Newsom is expected to take legal action against. Newsom repeatedly has said that the Trump administration has instigated the situation “to manufacture chaos and violence,” and has said that those who are committing “violent acts” will face legal repercussions and are playing into the president’s hands. ICE OFFICIAL PUTS POLITICIANS ON BLAST, DEMANDING THEY ‘STOP PUTTING MY PEOPLE IN DANGER’ “Continued chaotic federal sweeps, across California, to meet an arbitrary arrest quota are as reckless as they are cruel,” Newsom stated Friday. “Donald Trump’s chaos is eroding trust, tearing families apart, and undermining the workers and industries that power America’s economy.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called on residents not to “engage in violence and chaos” and to not “give the administration what they want,” Sunday in an X post, but faced scrutiny for Friday comments saying that “these tactics sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city.” When Fox News Digital reached out to Newsom’s office about DHS’ comments, they sent a link to a post in which Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons credited Newsom for complying with ICE detainers for those already behind bars. Fox News Digital reached out to the offices of Wu, Bass, Walz and Jeffries and did not receive replies.
Trump to urge newly naturalized US citizens to defend American way of life in video

FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump will tell immigrants at their naturalization ceremony that American culture is “yours to preserve,” according to a new video obtained by Fox News Digital. “Today you receive the greatest gift ever granted by human hands: you become a citizen of the United States of America,” Trump says in the video, which will now be played at every naturalization ceremony nationwide. “I welcome you into our national family. No matter where you come from, you now share a home and a heritage with some of the most exceptional heroes, legends and patriots to ever walk the face of the Earth,” he continues. “You have it like nobody’s had it before. With this sacred honor comes the highest responsibility. As you know, the American way of life is unique in all the world. And as Americans, we must fiercely guard it and defend it.” DHS ENDING PARTICIPATION IN NATURALIZATION CEREMONIES IN SANCTUARY JURISDICTIONS The president emphasizes traditional values, calling on new citizens to uphold what he describes as the pillars of American society. “In this country, we believe in hard work, a merit system and equality of opportunity. We believe in self-government and the fair, equal and impartial rule of law. And we cherish our liberty and our God-given rights to free speech, the free exercise of religion and the right to keep and bear arms,” he says. “This special American culture is now yours to preserve. Your freedoms are now yours to protect.” The message comes at a time when legal pathways to permanent residence in the U.S. are narrowing, making naturalization more important than ever for those already eligible. DHS OPEN TO DUCK DYNASTY PRODUCER’S PITCH FOR IMMIGRANT-BASED REALITY SHOW: ‘HAPPY TO REVIEW’ In 2024, over 800,000 people became naturalized U.S. citizens – a significant figure as the administration has taken increasingly hardline stances on illegal immigration. Trump’s policies have centered on enhanced border enforcement, increased deportations and stricter scrutiny on asylum claims, signaling a return to many of the immigration approaches from his first term. Over the weekend, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Los Angeles prompted protests that devolved into violence and the mobilization of the National Guard. The new video marks a symbolic shift from the Biden administration in how the White House views naturalized citizens – not just as legal newcomers, but as cultural stewards. Trump and his followers have long advocated for legal immigrants to assimilate to American culture. At the start of his administration, President Joe Biden recorded a video thanking immigrants for coming to America. “I want to thank you for choosing us and believing that America is worthy of your aspirations,” Biden said in an April 2021 clip. “You all have one thing in common: Courage. The courage it takes to sacrifice and make this journey. The courage to leave your homes, your lives, your loved ones, and come to a nation that is more than just a place but rather an idea,” he says.