Tense confrontations between police and demonstrators in L.A. continued for a second day on Saturday, in response to operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents

Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.

“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,” Homan told Fox News.

His comments come after Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller railed against the protests, calling them an “insurrection” against the United States.

  • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social
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    22 hours ago

    Can people tell me why we keep using the stupid fucking “border czar” term? I want to know who the fuck these people are and what their actual titles are. It makes reading headlines such a fucking chore. I end up having to google the context of a headline like every 4th article.

    For those curious, Tom Homan’s actual title is White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations

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      12 hours ago

      “czars” are unaccountable and powerful. Thats why these public employees like the term. They should be called administrators or “public servants” because thats what they actually get a paycheck for, not for strutting around playing billy badass against American citizens.

      This particular borderbitch public servant should go sit his TSA self at an airport and shut his overfed piehole. Nobody cares what he thinks.

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      17 hours ago

      Because the constitution says we can’t call the president king, but if we name everyone in other positions “border king” “energy king” etc. in Russian, we can normalize the king concept. Maybe a shitty nod to Russia as well?

      Confounding that they are so willing to use a Russian term.

      Our government really wants us to be feudal, apparently.