The answer

Violence is not the answer! You're making it worse! This is what they want us to do! This wouldn't have happened if you had voted for Kamala!
—The Liberal

Friday June 6

In the morning of Friday, June 6, federal immigration enforcement agents descended upon the Southern California neighborhoods of Westlake, Cypress Park and Paramount. They went to Home Depot parking lots and the fashion district in downtown Los Angeles to arrest supposedly illegal aliens apparently from the planets in Latin America.

Faceless agents with Homeland Security Investigations, under the department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the border patrol and the FBI were there to supposedly get the rapist, killer, green-skinned, fanged, foaming-at-the-mouth monstrous non-human extraterrestrials of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua gang members working or looking for work.

After hearing calls of "¡Ahi viene la migra!," (In English, "Here comes immigration enforcement") the day laborers—in worn Levi's jeans or quality-imitation Levi's jeans, paint-stained t-shirts, baseball caps and secondhand Jansport or dollar-store-bought Everest backpacks with cold burritos and Coke cans—ran away.

But some didn't believe it—they couldn't. Their fellow workers had jokingly yelled it the day before, and the day before that. It was, and continues to be, common practice for day laborers to make fun of their vulnerabilities, the things they're scared of, the things that hurt them.

"Ay, I don't have rent money," one would say, but in Spanish of course. "They're gonna evict me today if I don't pay."

"On yeah?" someone would answer. "Well, at least now you'll be able to save money living rent-free under the freeway bridge! Just don't get raped!"

Problematic, politically-incorrect jokes were customary.

But this time la migra was there. And the slower ones or the ones who ran away too late got taken. Some workers felt nostalgic—ah, just like back home on planet Mexico, in their alien colony of Ciudad Juarez or Zacatecas, where the cartels would kidnap us and call our families to pay the ransom, the good old days.

That day about 40 workers were taken from garment factories and warehouses—Ambiance Apparel—owned by the rich-and-unfortunately-named (at least here in the U.S.) Sam Bum "Ed" Noh. A complex capitalist, supposedly, driving expensive and fast cars, hiding millions in cash inside garbage bags and shoe boxes like a mafia boss in a cartoon or mini-series. But also stories of Mr. Noh helping out his workers—giving out loans and bonuses. But then again, just like the myth of illegal immigrants taking the jobs away from real Americans, so goes the myth of the benevolent capitalist. No need to unionize, here's some cash!

One thing stuck out that day: Labor unions like SEIU and Unite Here were with protesters at the ICE raids. Given the complicated history of the immigrant struggle and the labor movement (with some unions in the past thinking of immigrants as scabs while also denying them from joining their ranks), it was refreshing and exciting—and they weren't fucking around.

Labor leader David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union—United Service Workers West (SEIU-USWW), was arrested after allegedly trying to stop ICE from taking undocumented immigrant workers. Federal agents knocked him to the ground and placed him under federal custody.

However, he got lucky. Hundreds of people in person were witnessing the struggle and thousands of viewers were watching online. Otherwise, Huerta's face would've probably been unrecognizable.

As videos began circulating online, a lot of people got more pissed.

So they, too, descended to wherever they saw ICE. Mainly downtown Los Angeles and near the Home Depot in the City of Paramount.

The people scooped up rocks, took out bottles, unbolted city benches, found nearby chairs and launched them at the agents.

The federal agents retreated.

The same day, still, as the sun went down, more people joined. Their anger grew. Some of the people present were family members of the workers who were taken. Graffiti magically appeared on the walls of the federal detention center: "FUCK ICE" and "DEATH TO ICE" and "FUCK DONALD TRUMP" but also farewell messages like "LOVE YOU DADDY."

In some videos you can hear them screaming for their parents.

Night fell, but the protesters didn't leave. They stayed close to the building where the undocumented immigrants were being held hostage. In the building's dungeon-basement, it is said. They don't have access to food, showers or toilets, it is said.

But neither Israel nor the U.S., not even the U.N., condemn the kidnapping. There were no international calls to release these hostages—hostages more poor, more brown, more sweaty, more Spanish-speaking, more illegal, more extraterrestrial, more alien, less human, less than human.

Although agents guarded the immigration detention center as best they could, it wasn't good enough. Who would've thought a few rocks would be enough to push back well-armed, well-capable government killers? (The Palestinians probably) (Mexicans, too) (Peruvians?) (Colombians?) (Wait a minute—a pattern is emerging)

Saturday June 7

The next day, President Trump without bothering to ask California Governor Newsom (which he affectionately called NewSCUM), sent in 2,000 national guard troops from the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team—armed with fully automatic assault rifles. To guard the immigration detention center and federal building where immigration court is housed.

The news asked insincerely, posing a question they already had the answer to: Is it a riot? Are they burning law enforcement (and a few self-driving creepy-ass-Terminator cars) only to watch them burn? Paid protesters? Are they being sent it? Are they outside agitators? They looted, too?They did, right?

Yeah, some did, ran off with some sick-ass Jordans though.

Sunday June 8

Like a Hemingway novel, the sun rose over the city of Angels on Sunday, cutting through the cold morning fog, shining on the glossy walls of the victimized government buildings that did nothing but their jobs, the shattered glass sprinkled all over the streets and sidewalks, the black ashy areas where once burned fires.

At the other side of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley, local city officials in Glendale woke up and saw all the aftermath of the protests in downtown. They decided,You know what, I think it's time we cut ties with ICE.

Up until last week, thanks to the LA Times, it was discovered that the City of Glendale had been working with ICE by opening up their jail to house undocumented immigrants.

The righteous and annoyingly-opinionated liberal backs away slowly like Homer Simpson disappearing into the hedge.

"Hey, hey, don't leave!" someone says—someone the media says is an outside agitator citizen son of an extraterrestrial who can't speak Spanish and receives a bi-weekly check, direct deposited, from the Democratic Party's top secret Black Bloc Caucus. "Didn't you say earlier that violence and rebellion don't do anything? That it works against our cause? Right? Right? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggght?"

But the liberal is gone. For now. But not forever, unfortunately.

Monday June 9

So far 72 protesters have been arrested. But there will be more.

Reporter Wendy Castillo with the Spanish-speaking news media outlet, Noticias Univision, said that some really young protesters didn't even speak Spanish and didn't know what they were protesting. She also alleged that protesters were also setting fire to Latino-owned businesses but offered no photos, video, or even the names of those supposed businesses.

Upon seeing the report, meetings were called by activist groups to circulate Castillo's memo that in order to participate in the anti-ICE protests, you had to speak Spanish. The Democratic Party's top secret Black Bloc Caucus immediately went to work to find Spanish teachers. Classes, reportedly, are ongoing at over 100 locations citywide. To find the closest one to you, please go to www.wendycastilloneedstoshutthefuckup.org.

Who said it first? The liberals or the media? Doesn't matter. Protesters need to be more polite, less violent, bring flowers, not rocks, and definitely not light—excuse my language—fucking cop or ICE vehicles on fire! Or else. Or else, well, you know what happened at Kent State. The National Guard was there too.

The protesters evidently didn't agree to follow the recommendations of Castillo or other liberals.

More vehicles were set on fire. Mexican and other Latin American flags were waved above the flames and thick black-and-gray billowing smoke. Cars and SUVs are highly flammable, apparently.

Photographers were having the best days of their entire professional lives. The younger ones couldn't go to the wars. They weren't around for the LA Riots. But they were there now. This was their war.

They quickly filled up their SD cards. They snapped the release button. The cards popped out. They quickly stored them—if there was time, which there often wasn't, they would put them in their little plastic protective case, but mostly they just tossed them in their bag or pocket.

Later that evening President Trump got a small erection watching the news.

"Perfect," he said to himself, happy that people have stopped talking about the failing economy, rubbing his crotch softly. "Soon the fatherland shall be free and pure and great and white—well, mostly white—some of the non-whites can stay. Send in the marines!"

His small penis, slowly erecting, filled with the blood filtered by his kidneys, slowed-down and struggling because of the steady diet of McDonalds and adrenochrome from the stolen babies of illegal aliens.

Later that evening approximately 700 Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division were deployed and quickly arrived in Los Angeles to aid in the ongoing, uninterrupted ICE raids and operations.

"Actually, it's to quell the violence and bring peace to the city," A government official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because if Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem were to find out she'd put their balls (or tits if it was a female agent) in a vice and sell the video tape on the Dark Web. "To liberate Los Angeles from the invading aliens! Defend planet USA! And, you! Yeah, you—you son of an alien bitch, stop writing this! None of this is true! Well, some is. But the quotes are completely made up. Our thoughts don't belong in quotes, they're italicized! No wonder they fired you from that small newspaper... Ah shit."

Tuesday June 10

People are continuing to protest against the military-backed ICE raids and operations, which are ongoing. Trump wants California Governor Newsom arrested. People are conflicted—they don't like him but also don't like Trump. Someone said California wants to separate from the U.S. and return to Mexico. Some people forgot it was ever part of Mexico, as was most of the Southwest.

They continue protesting.

But, shit, the liberal has come back and he has amnesia because he says the same things: "Violence is not the answer! You're making it worse! This is what they want us to do! This wouldn't have happened if you had voted for Kamala."

But the people don't care. They're just gonna keep going.

Even without knowing how to, people have and will always continue to rebel.

Even without knowing history, it can be made.