June 10, 2025 • 5 mins
Rich Lowry speaks with Mendte in the Morning about the ICE protests in Los Angeles and how it all started.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now let's get to Rich Lowry, editor in chief of
the National Review. Were you a beef? Were you a
big sli in the family stone fan?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Rich big familiar with their work?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Enjoyable enough, No, you don't sound like you're a huge fan.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Though.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Enjoyable enough isn't a raving review. Enjoyable Enjoyable enough isn't
as somebody you'd go see in concert. You know, let's
talk about what's going on in Los Angeles right now,
and there's so many things to talk about. But I
thought you send people to a fascinating interview, and that's
what started these riots in the first place. What was
(00:41):
ICE doing out there? What were they doing? Well?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
On last Friday which started this, they were doing some
work site raids, including one at a home depot. I
don't understand why home depots are supposed to be considered
off limits for immigration enforcement, given their well known gathering
places for illegal immigants. But there's one home depot, and
then some clothing wholesalers and the like where they had
search warrants because they had indications that these places were
(01:09):
employing legal immigrants with all sorts of fake documentation, which
is very bad. And then on Saturday, there are more
targeted raids against illegal immigrants who had been deported and
come back, which is a felony, or had gone through
the entire process and had their orders of final removal
issued by a judge and they hadn't left. So this
(01:30):
clearly is a category that everyone should be in favor of, right,
you know, But instead it pore fuel on the flames.
And the left is just basically opposed to immigration enforcement
as such. And it wasn't peaceful protests, wasn't just exercising
First Amendment rights. It was violent resistance to federal authority.
(01:51):
Trump reacted to that appropriately.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And here we are again and it's seeming just like
the wildfires. I mean, all you can think about is
how big and Mayor Bass was and how bad Gavin
Newsom were on the wildfires, and how they may have
caused those wildfires in the first place, especially Gavin Newsom,
or at least contributed to them. And once again they
(02:14):
are fighting law enforcement. At least they're fighting the National
Guard coming in, and they're fighting Donald Trump on this.
You'd think with the pictures we'd seen and the video
we see every single day, they would want the National
Guard in there. To secure the area. They certainly secured
that federal building.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, so the Guard has a fairly limited role. It
can protect other federal personnel and protect other federal buildings.
So you look at the pictures of the National Garden
what they're doing when they're not a lot of them
out there yet. Two, they're not like cracking heads. They're
just standing in front of a building to keep them
from getting attacked. And you have all these officials say, oh,
this is such a terrible provocation. How could you've done.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Such a thing to us.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
They're not doing anything. They're at protecting federal officials and
federal property. It's the cops who are out on the streets,
and that the cops are getting attacked by these protesters.
So you think they'd be, uh, every public official be
telling the people who leave the streets to stop and
never do this, and instead they're they're blaming Trump. No.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's a great point because when you watch all the
National Guard troops standing in front of the federal building,
nobody's bothering them, nobody's taunting them. But when you see
the police, they're shooting fireworks at them, they're throwing rocks
at them. They need help.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, So on the on the on Saturday night was sorry,
Sunday night all runs together. Uh, the police chief had
press conference. He's ass do you need the National Guard?
And you wouldn't say yes, right because he can't say
that politically, but he's like, well, we are overwhelmed and
the situation is out of control. So again it's the
National Guard. They're not marching down the street dealing with
(03:57):
these protesters, but but they they're there an assistance that
you know, otherwise a bunch of other people would have
to be standing in front those buildings, right, a bunch
of LA cops, right, So it helps, it helps at
that at that level. But these the left is just insane.
On immigration. There's a brief moment after Trump won where
they're like, you know, maybe we should have done more
(04:18):
of the border, et cetera. But they've they flipped back
to total insanity. Everyone should support people who have orders
of removal leaving right, they've gone through the process, they've
had their due process. But instead even that drives them insane.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, and it's no wonder Donald Trump won so easily
and he's winning again. They're they're giving him victory after victory,
just like Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They're still clinging to him.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah. So it's if Trump could script this, he'd have
a bunch of violent protesters resisting ice and waving flags
from a foreign country. Right, And what are they doing?
I were resisting eyes and waving flags from a foreign country,
and Abradio Garcia, I thought it was you know, as
soon as they realized they violated an order sending him
(05:09):
to this prison in El Salvador, I don't think you
should have been sent to a prison a Salvador, regardless
without a trial. But as soon as they realized this mistake,
they just said, have brought him back. And now they
have brought him back, and they've they've charged him because
he was not just a Maryland father. He wasn't the
father of the year. Apparently he was routinely engaged in
human smuggling. And the facts in the indictment about this
traffic stop in Tennessee that was unearthed, you know, a
(05:31):
month or two ago, are completely damning. Right. He said
he was picking up construction workers and bringing back from
Saint Louis. The car was never anywhere near Saint Louis,
and none of these guys had luggage None of them
had any tools or construction equipment, so it was clear
what was going on.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Thank you so much. Rich Lowry, editor in chief of
the National Review, agree with everything you said today. Rich,
thank you so much.
Now let's get to Rich Lowry, editor in chief of
the National Review. Were you a beef? Were you a
big sli in the family stone fan?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Rich big familiar with their work?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Enjoyable enough, No, you don't sound like you're a huge fan.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Though.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Enjoyable enough isn't a raving review. Enjoyable Enjoyable enough isn't
as somebody you'd go see in concert. You know, let's
talk about what's going on in Los Angeles right now,
and there's so many things to talk about. But I
thought you send people to a fascinating interview, and that's
what started these riots in the first place. What was
(00:41):
ICE doing out there? What were they doing? Well?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
On last Friday which started this, they were doing some
work site raids, including one at a home depot. I
don't understand why home depots are supposed to be considered
off limits for immigration enforcement, given their well known gathering
places for illegal immigants. But there's one home depot, and
then some clothing wholesalers and the like where they had
search warrants because they had indications that these places were
(01:09):
employing legal immigrants with all sorts of fake documentation, which
is very bad. And then on Saturday, there are more
targeted raids against illegal immigrants who had been deported and
come back, which is a felony, or had gone through
the entire process and had their orders of final removal
issued by a judge and they hadn't left. So this
(01:30):
clearly is a category that everyone should be in favor of, right,
you know, But instead it pore fuel on the flames.
And the left is just basically opposed to immigration enforcement
as such. And it wasn't peaceful protests, wasn't just exercising
First Amendment rights. It was violent resistance to federal authority.
(01:51):
Trump reacted to that appropriately.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And here we are again and it's seeming just like
the wildfires. I mean, all you can think about is
how big and Mayor Bass was and how bad Gavin
Newsom were on the wildfires, and how they may have
caused those wildfires in the first place, especially Gavin Newsom,
or at least contributed to them. And once again they
(02:14):
are fighting law enforcement. At least they're fighting the National
Guard coming in, and they're fighting Donald Trump on this.
You'd think with the pictures we'd seen and the video
we see every single day, they would want the National
Guard in there. To secure the area. They certainly secured
that federal building.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, so the Guard has a fairly limited role. It
can protect other federal personnel and protect other federal buildings.
So you look at the pictures of the National Garden
what they're doing when they're not a lot of them
out there yet. Two, they're not like cracking heads. They're
just standing in front of a building to keep them
from getting attacked. And you have all these officials say, oh,
this is such a terrible provocation. How could you've done.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Such a thing to us.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
They're not doing anything. They're at protecting federal officials and
federal property. It's the cops who are out on the streets,
and that the cops are getting attacked by these protesters.
So you think they'd be, uh, every public official be
telling the people who leave the streets to stop and
never do this, and instead they're they're blaming Trump. No.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's a great point because when you watch all the
National Guard troops standing in front of the federal building,
nobody's bothering them, nobody's taunting them. But when you see
the police, they're shooting fireworks at them, they're throwing rocks
at them. They need help.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, So on the on the on Saturday night was sorry,
Sunday night all runs together. Uh, the police chief had
press conference. He's ass do you need the National Guard?
And you wouldn't say yes, right because he can't say
that politically, but he's like, well, we are overwhelmed and
the situation is out of control. So again it's the
National Guard. They're not marching down the street dealing with
(03:57):
these protesters, but but they they're there an assistance that
you know, otherwise a bunch of other people would have
to be standing in front those buildings, right, a bunch
of LA cops, right, So it helps, it helps at
that at that level. But these the left is just insane.
On immigration. There's a brief moment after Trump won where
they're like, you know, maybe we should have done more
(04:18):
of the border, et cetera. But they've they flipped back
to total insanity. Everyone should support people who have orders
of removal leaving right, they've gone through the process, they've
had their due process. But instead even that drives them insane.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, and it's no wonder Donald Trump won so easily
and he's winning again. They're they're giving him victory after victory,
just like Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They're still clinging to him.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah. So it's if Trump could script this, he'd have
a bunch of violent protesters resisting ice and waving flags
from a foreign country. Right, And what are they doing?
I were resisting eyes and waving flags from a foreign country,
and Abradio Garcia, I thought it was you know, as
soon as they realized they violated an order sending him
(05:09):
to this prison in El Salvador, I don't think you
should have been sent to a prison a Salvador, regardless
without a trial. But as soon as they realized this mistake,
they just said, have brought him back. And now they
have brought him back, and they've they've charged him because
he was not just a Maryland father. He wasn't the
father of the year. Apparently he was routinely engaged in
human smuggling. And the facts in the indictment about this
traffic stop in Tennessee that was unearthed, you know, a
(05:31):
month or two ago, are completely damning. Right. He said
he was picking up construction workers and bringing back from
Saint Louis. The car was never anywhere near Saint Louis,
and none of these guys had luggage None of them
had any tools or construction equipment, so it was clear
what was going on.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Thank you so much. Rich Lowry, editor in chief of
the National Review, agree with everything you said today. Rich,
thank you so much.
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