This isn't just about protests here in Los Angeles.

They want a spectacle. They want the violence.

Come after me. Arrest me. Let’s just get it over with, tough guy.

We didn't have a problem until Trump got involved.

Tom, arrest me. Let’s go.

This is not the way a civilized country behaves. It is completely deranged behavior.

a federal mobilization an act of overkill for demonstrations that didn’t draw a turnout above three figures

We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off, @realdonaldtrump.

purposefully inflammatory

This move was purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

At no point in the past three days has there been a rebellion or an insurrection.

blatant abuse of power

The deployment of the Marines from Twentynine Palms is an intensely risky move.

the Trump administration had almost achieved operational control of the US-Mexican border.

support to our law enforcement officers and agents across Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and Federal Protective Services (FPS), as they defend against invasive, violent, insurrectionist mobs…

Direction to DoD forces to either detain, just as they would at any federal facility guarded by military, lawbreakers under Title 18 until they can be arrested and processed by federal law enforcement, or arrest them.

enduring the train wreck and poor leadership of Joe Biden leading this country.

ICE agents always identify themselves to individuals that they’re encountering.