June 9, 2025 • 19 mins
IN this episode we look at the LA riots from the perspective of people who actually live there. Who is funding the bricks, the mortars and explosive devices? Are rioters being paid by CCP shell groups and NGO's to foment unrest?
We've got lots of juicy audio and perspective from one former LA resident (me) who has a slightly different perspective - and it's not about immigration!
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And welcome to another edition of America TODAY.
Jim Watkins, your host. Obviously, over the weekend,
most of us fascinated by what's going on in the West Coast,
particularly in Los Angeles. And now I understand also San
Francisco, where the riots continue.
We got a lot to unpack. And you know, for me personally,
I know that I've told you this before, but I grew up in Los
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Angeles for most of my young life and also much of my earlier
manhood, I suppose you could call and I worked a lot and I
know the area very well. So I can speak to this to a
certain degree because I, I feelthe compassion of, of, of people
who live in Los Angeles in the sense that, you know, most
people there get along. It's a, it is a very diverse
(00:56):
city. And for many great reasons, the
Hispanic contribution to the culture there is, you know, I
mean, it's, it, it's always beenthere.
It always will be there. There's nothing that can take
that away. And you know, we remember that
California at one point was partof Mexico and all that changed
in the 1800s and, and it's kind of continued to slide downhill
(01:19):
ever since because in one, in one sense, you have a beautiful
city. It's got a vibrancy all of its
own. But every since COVID, it is, it
has lost its luster and it's become a, a shell of its former
self. So it breaks my heart to see it
even further. Dive, dive, develop into chaos.
(01:40):
And it's just a, it's just a mess.
And it's unfortunate because the10 or so million immigrants that
came into this country is where all of this is rooted.
That's exactly what has caused this.
Now we got a lot of sound bites to play.
And I want to get to some of it.And I also want to tell you
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who's behind a lot of it, because what you're not hearing
from the media is who exactly who exactly is fomenting this
rage? Because it started with an ICE
detention center in downtown LosAngeles.
That's where it all started for some reason.
There is, there is. Well, let's put this guy on on
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YouTube. His name is Maverick and he kind
of sums it up succinctly. Take a listen to this.
Not one, but two ICE riots happening at the same time in
Los Angeles and in New York. And I have some very, very
interesting things you guys may want to take a look at now.
If you guys remember the summer of 2020, the BLM movement where
those mysterious pile of bricks were showing up nationwide,
(02:46):
Yeah, that's actually happening again.
And not only that, they're conveniently placed right across
the street from where the riots and protests are happening.
Not to mention if you look at the delivery date, it's actually
dated a day before the riots andprotests started, which is very
convenient. Now, we do have some receipts to
share with you. There's a group called Data
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Republican. What they've unveiled is that
there are a lot of NGOs that arefederally funded that are
backing these riots. And the riots started because
ICE is cracking down on a lot ofthe gang element that has come
through the board of the last four years.
So this is clearly on on and Biden, Biden caused this.
And I, I told you leading up to the elections and no matter the
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outcome, whoever won Kamala or Trump, and we all kind of knew
it was going to be Trump that hewas planting minefields.
And this is one of those minefields that I was talking
about the social unrest in Western cities because when when
first of all, the proximity of Los Angeles to to Mexico is it's
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the biggest city closest to the border, aside from in San Diego,
which is having its own set of problems.
So there's a lot of people, particularly people in LA that
are voicing anger, not at Trump,which is what Karen Bass is
doing. Listen to Karen Bass here lay
blame on on the the rioting on Trump.
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What? We're seeing in LA is chaos
caused by the administration. People should exercise their
right to protest. That's their First Amendment
right, but people should also exercise that right peacefully.
We do not want to play into the administration's hands.
We're working with officials, we're organizing resources, but
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what we're seeing in Los Angelesis chaos that is provoked by the
administration. Not really, no.
It's it's chaos because you're giving the people who are
writing a pass. You're saying it's OK if you
want to object to law enforcement arresting people who
are here here illegally and may actually be gang related, drug
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related, and and of course Newsom.
Governor Newsom is basically echoing what Karen Bass
basically giving Trump and his Department of Homeland Security
the middle finger. He knows where to find me, come
after me, arrest me. Let's just get it over with,
tough guy. So you got the politicians in
California blaming Trump, but really the the people who live
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in LA, well, they've got a different version of the story.
A lot of people want to blame usLatinos for Trump for all these
raids. You know who you should be
blaming Latinos for? Biden.
Because if it wasn't for Biden'sstupid border policy, none of
this would be happening. And if you say no, it was going
to happen, then why didn't it happen in 2016?
Huh? 2016 to 2020 they didn't have
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ICE raids. Tell me why didn't it happen?
It all happened because Latinos for Biden.
As a Mexican American who voted for Trump, I have been called so
many things. I have been told that I am a
sell out. I have been told that I'm
whitewashed. I have been told that I'm a
wannabe white. I have been told that I'll never
be accepted by the white people.And I have been told that my
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ancestors would be so disappointed even though they're
the ones that came here in the first place.
But the funniest 1 is when they say wait till they come for you.
Wait till they send you back. Back to where?
To California, where I was born.To break it to you guys, but
you're not starting a revolutionby throwing blocks of cement at
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ICE agents while they're drivingand while also blocking a
federal bus on the One O 1 freeway in LA.
You're not doing anything but besides putting people in danger
and you're being really annoying.
So you've got the press and the and the media coverage making it
look as if this is a Trump problem.
Meanwhile, the people on the ground actually live there, see
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it for what it is, bad management.
And you know, Stephen Miller, White House chief administrator
and spokesman really for the White House, he has some real
insights into all this virtue signaling on behalf of
mainstream media. If Ioffer any one of you a rent
free home with no taxes to pay in any of these gang
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neighborhoods and I said your neighbors are MS13 terrorists or
Mexican mafia or Sinaloa cartel or trained Eragua.
I couldn't pay you to live there.
But yet you, with your coverage,are trying to force innocent
Americans to have these people as their neighbors and that one
day their daughter may be abducted from their home and
raped. And murdered.
And I've been saying that all along.
It's easy for you to be in Brentwood or living in the hills
(07:22):
in Hollywood and looking down upon the people of Los Angeles
as your personal, the play thing.
But Tom Holman, he says, look, you can portray this any way you
want, but we're doing our job. This is about enforcing the law
and again, we're not going to apologize for doing it.
We're stepping up, she says. They're going to, they're going
to mobilize or guess what, we'realready head of the game.
(07:43):
We were already mobilizing. We're going to bring National
Guard in tonight. We're going to continue doing
our job. We're going to push back on
these people and we're going to force a law.
And that started to on Sunday night.
Now we hear that the the riotinggoing on in the in San Francisco
starting to heat up. But again, this is all being
exacerbated by fringe groups behind the scenes who want to
(08:04):
so, so social discord. And one of those groups happens
to be called CHIRLA. They want to see the social
discord. It is the Coalition of Human
Immigration Rights. Documents reveal the group saw a
shocking jump from 12 million indonations to 34 million in
government grants just one year.And this group, according to
(08:26):
research done by At Data Republican, shows that they are
funded by a communist who is also a very successful
businessman in China. And and they are the ones who
are backing a lot of this writing right now.
So you've got anti ICE riders inLos Angeles being organized by
the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights of Los
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Angeles, which itself is a group, an NGO, a nonprofit that
is being funded by a communist group operating in the US with
no transparency. And the party that is sponsoring
all of this is called the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
And all of this is documented. So.
So what you're seeing on television is is something that
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is being provoked by interests who want to see America fall
apart. It's that simple.
And when you look at it through that lens, you understand that
it's Kabuki theater. And maybe it's a test run.
But as one Angelino said, none of this was going on during the
Biden administration, was it? No riots, no bricks being laid
(09:31):
out in the middle of the night, none of that stuff.
And then all of a sudden, Trump's taking on the deep
state. And what happens?
Social unrest. And now the Democrats come out
of the shadows and they blame Trump.
So this is it's not as complicated as you would think
it is when you know who the players are.
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We'll continue. This is America today.
Welcome back to America Today. I want to play a couple of
(10:14):
clips. I want to also tell you just a
brief story so you have some context.
Having grown up in Los Angeles, it's one of these things where I
don't know how you, if you've not been to Los Angeles, if
you've never been there, if you've never gone in, it's
always a tragedy when you see your hometown falling apart, if
you've ever gone back home, maybe somewhere that you grew up
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in, you have fond memories. And then you go back and you see
that it's something's changed some, some the spirit has
changed, something has been transformed.
There's no no longer what you would consider a safe space, for
lack of a better term. So it it grips me on that level,
but I also don't like the misrepresentation coming from
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the government of California, which seems to want to blame
Trump, just like they blame Trump for George Floyd.
And this is squarely at the footof the previous administration.
Angelenos are saying this. Even the LAPD Captain Newsome
and Karen Bass, the mayor talking about how that saying
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that the the federal government is provoking when they're just
doing their job. And the LA police captain who
was on the scene says that that's not the case at all.
Take a listen. To the people who are not happy
with the fact that ICE is in the, in the community doing what
ICE does, you know, it's I respect ICE for being a fellow
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law enforcement agency. They have their mission.
They have their what they have to do.
We don't engage in in that activity.
But again, we can't preclude them from doing that.
They have every right to do that.
As far as people have worried about the the violence that
we're seeing, It is violence that I've seen.
It's disgusting. It's escalated now since the
beginning of this incident. What we saw the first night was
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was bad. What we've seen subsequent to
that is getting increasingly worse and more violent.
I'm going to do a little statistic test here and tell you
what the numbers look like in California and you might have
some understanding of why ICE has taken this on because these
are the numbers. You can't deny the numbers.
It's not an easy situation, but according to the California's
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own records, there are between 1.8 million and 2.6 million
illegal immigrants in Californiaundocumented population in 2022.
This is during the midst of the open border where between 1.21
and 2.8 million people additionally have come in
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through the Southern Border Migration Policy Institute and
DHS data officials report from the Migration Poly Institute
that California has over 2,000,000 undocumented migrants.
Now, many, probably most are, you know, they got jobs.
They're trying to make a better life.
If you've seen Mexico lately, you probably would want to run
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too. I don't I don't besmirch them
for feeling the way that they feel, but you have to recognize
the criminal element and who is backing this criminal element.
You've got Chinese, they just what, seized 55 tons of meth
trying to be snuck through the border?
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Think of it as an industry. The cartels have an industry.
They are supplying the addicts of California and other states
with no different from, you know, going to your favorite
fast food restaurant, only it happens at night when you're
asleep in your neighborhood. Stay up some night at 3:00 in
the morning, look outside your window and see what's going on.
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If you live in places like Compton or Paramount or downtown
Los Angeles, you see they're like vampires that come out at
night. And there's nothing wrong with
the federal government stepping in and trying to get some
control back because the state government won't do it.
And this is the issue. And the people in California,
Los Angeles is sitting and going, why doesn't our police do
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their job? Well, because they're told by
the politicians not to do their job.
We had a gentleman on not long ago who explained that the way
that California policing used tobe was that if you saw somebody
that was suspicious in a neighborhood, you had the right
to go and question them. If you saw, say, somebody that
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didn't look like they belonged in, say, Beverly Hills at night,
walking with a hoodie on at 3:00in the morning.
It used to be the LAPD. We're encouraged to check it out
to prevent a crime from happening.
Now the position is you have to wait until the crime occurs
before you can step in. Does that sound like a way to
run second largest American city?
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No. So if you want to take the
position simply because you don't like Donald Trump and you
think thinks that he is a dictator like Gavin Newsom and
Karen Bass and others, then you would probably view this as
being an overreach of federal authority.
But what about the people on theground?
What about the, you know, the women of Los Angeles?
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How do you think they feel? To break it to you guys, but
you're not starting a revolutionby throwing blocks of cement at
ICE agents while they're drivingand while also blocking a
federal bus on the 101 freeway in LA.
You're not doing anything but besides putting people in danger
and you're being really annoying.
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This is about enforcing the law,and again, we're not going to
apologize for doing it. We're stepping up.
If Ioffer any one of you a rent free home with no taxes to pay
in any of these gay neighborhoods and I said your
neighbors are MS13 terrorists orMexican mafia, I couldn't pay
you to live there. Coming up from the stream got.
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A beautiful It's got a beautifulbaby.
Break it to you guys, but you'renot starting a revolution by
throwing blocks of cement at ICEagents while they're driving and
while also blocking a federal bus on the One O 1 freeway in
LA. You're not doing anything, but
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besides putting people in danger, you're being really
annoying. It's a beautiful.
He knows where to find me, come after me, arrest me, going on
everywhere. Just get it over with.
Tough guy like the. Flicker in black of a train.
On the track, it's got rhythm square.
What we're seeing in LA is chaoscaused by the administration.
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Every LAPD officer should be fired.
No benefits. No retiring package.
If you can't defend the city. That's paying, you get the.
Fuck out. Goodbye.
It's a beautiful noise. That's my Ode and Neil Diamond
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because in my youth they had thethe song beautiful noise and it
was playing in the movie theaters as sort of like a a
teaser. And that's one of my memories.
And, and those were the days where LA was basically kind of a
cool place to be. I mean, it's always had its
problems. It's had its riots in the 60s
and 70s that I remember. And then of course, you know,
the OJ Simpson trial and all of the drama.
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And then of course, later RodneyKing.
I mean, it's, you know, it's gotits scars.
There's no question about this. But what this what this is, is
not that those were just occasional upheavals, stress,
hot summer days, people getting their frustrations out.
This is not that. What this is, is an attempt to
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sow social discord. And remember, we started off
this program that we have a Chinese billionaire who was
funding the NGOs and non government officials who run
these little cities and they support things like amnesty for
migrants. They support this Subregga
Garcia guy that's now back in the United States.
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And they're basically, if not indirectly, directly tied to the
Open Society, George Soros and that ilk, the globalists who
don't believe in borders. And unfortunately, from my
perspective, I don't know how Los Angeles can recover.
The damage has already been inflicted.
Eventually this is going to lead.
If it's not quelled in the next couple of days and the rioters
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don't start, stop throwing Molotov cocktails and breaking
up bricks and throwing them fromoverpasses.
What you're actually going to get to is you're going to get to
martial law in Los Angeles. Now in New York, it's a
different picture. The police are allowed now to do
what they got to do, and they'renot blocking ice.
There are people there that are trying to promote it and
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provocateurs. But in essence, that seems to
have quelled for the moment. And what remains to be seen.
Of course, we'll continue to follow it.
And if you want to check out my website, we'll have the latest
news. Of course, you can check this
program on this great radio station in 24 hours, so until
then, be safe. And thank you for joining me on
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America Today. What we're seeing in LA is chaos
caused by the administration. People should exercise their
right to protest. That's their First Amendment
right. People should also exercise that
right peacefully. We do not want to play into the
administration's hands.
And welcome to another edition of America TODAY.
Jim Watkins, your host. Obviously, over the weekend,
most of us fascinated by what's going on in the West Coast,
particularly in Los Angeles. And now I understand also San
Francisco, where the riots continue.
We got a lot to unpack. And you know, for me personally,
I know that I've told you this before, but I grew up in Los
(00:35):
Angeles for most of my young life and also much of my earlier
manhood, I suppose you could call and I worked a lot and I
know the area very well. So I can speak to this to a
certain degree because I, I feelthe compassion of, of, of people
who live in Los Angeles in the sense that, you know, most
people there get along. It's a, it is a very diverse
(00:56):
city. And for many great reasons, the
Hispanic contribution to the culture there is, you know, I
mean, it's, it, it's always beenthere.
It always will be there. There's nothing that can take
that away. And you know, we remember that
California at one point was partof Mexico and all that changed
in the 1800s and, and it's kind of continued to slide downhill
(01:19):
ever since because in one, in one sense, you have a beautiful
city. It's got a vibrancy all of its
own. But every since COVID, it is, it
has lost its luster and it's become a, a shell of its former
self. So it breaks my heart to see it
even further. Dive, dive, develop into chaos.
(01:40):
And it's just a, it's just a mess.
And it's unfortunate because the10 or so million immigrants that
came into this country is where all of this is rooted.
That's exactly what has caused this.
Now we got a lot of sound bites to play.
And I want to get to some of it.And I also want to tell you
(02:02):
who's behind a lot of it, because what you're not hearing
from the media is who exactly who exactly is fomenting this
rage? Because it started with an ICE
detention center in downtown LosAngeles.
That's where it all started for some reason.
There is, there is. Well, let's put this guy on on
(02:22):
YouTube. His name is Maverick and he kind
of sums it up succinctly. Take a listen to this.
Not one, but two ICE riots happening at the same time in
Los Angeles and in New York. And I have some very, very
interesting things you guys may want to take a look at now.
If you guys remember the summer of 2020, the BLM movement where
those mysterious pile of bricks were showing up nationwide,
(02:46):
Yeah, that's actually happening again.
And not only that, they're conveniently placed right across
the street from where the riots and protests are happening.
Not to mention if you look at the delivery date, it's actually
dated a day before the riots andprotests started, which is very
convenient. Now, we do have some receipts to
share with you. There's a group called Data
(03:08):
Republican. What they've unveiled is that
there are a lot of NGOs that arefederally funded that are
backing these riots. And the riots started because
ICE is cracking down on a lot ofthe gang element that has come
through the board of the last four years.
So this is clearly on on and Biden, Biden caused this.
And I, I told you leading up to the elections and no matter the
(03:30):
outcome, whoever won Kamala or Trump, and we all kind of knew
it was going to be Trump that hewas planting minefields.
And this is one of those minefields that I was talking
about the social unrest in Western cities because when when
first of all, the proximity of Los Angeles to to Mexico is it's
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the biggest city closest to the border, aside from in San Diego,
which is having its own set of problems.
So there's a lot of people, particularly people in LA that
are voicing anger, not at Trump,which is what Karen Bass is
doing. Listen to Karen Bass here lay
blame on on the the rioting on Trump.
(04:11):
What? We're seeing in LA is chaos
caused by the administration. People should exercise their
right to protest. That's their First Amendment
right, but people should also exercise that right peacefully.
We do not want to play into the administration's hands.
We're working with officials, we're organizing resources, but
(04:33):
what we're seeing in Los Angelesis chaos that is provoked by the
administration. Not really, no.
It's it's chaos because you're giving the people who are
writing a pass. You're saying it's OK if you
want to object to law enforcement arresting people who
are here here illegally and may actually be gang related, drug
(04:54):
related, and and of course Newsom.
Governor Newsom is basically echoing what Karen Bass
basically giving Trump and his Department of Homeland Security
the middle finger. He knows where to find me, come
after me, arrest me. Let's just get it over with,
tough guy. So you got the politicians in
California blaming Trump, but really the the people who live
(05:14):
in LA, well, they've got a different version of the story.
A lot of people want to blame usLatinos for Trump for all these
raids. You know who you should be
blaming Latinos for? Biden.
Because if it wasn't for Biden'sstupid border policy, none of
this would be happening. And if you say no, it was going
to happen, then why didn't it happen in 2016?
Huh? 2016 to 2020 they didn't have
(05:37):
ICE raids. Tell me why didn't it happen?
It all happened because Latinos for Biden.
As a Mexican American who voted for Trump, I have been called so
many things. I have been told that I am a
sell out. I have been told that I'm
whitewashed. I have been told that I'm a
wannabe white. I have been told that I'll never
be accepted by the white people.And I have been told that my
(05:57):
ancestors would be so disappointed even though they're
the ones that came here in the first place.
But the funniest 1 is when they say wait till they come for you.
Wait till they send you back. Back to where?
To California, where I was born.To break it to you guys, but
you're not starting a revolutionby throwing blocks of cement at
(06:17):
ICE agents while they're drivingand while also blocking a
federal bus on the One O 1 freeway in LA.
You're not doing anything but besides putting people in danger
and you're being really annoying.
So you've got the press and the and the media coverage making it
look as if this is a Trump problem.
Meanwhile, the people on the ground actually live there, see
(06:39):
it for what it is, bad management.
And you know, Stephen Miller, White House chief administrator
and spokesman really for the White House, he has some real
insights into all this virtue signaling on behalf of
mainstream media. If Ioffer any one of you a rent
free home with no taxes to pay in any of these gang
(06:59):
neighborhoods and I said your neighbors are MS13 terrorists or
Mexican mafia or Sinaloa cartel or trained Eragua.
I couldn't pay you to live there.
But yet you, with your coverage,are trying to force innocent
Americans to have these people as their neighbors and that one
day their daughter may be abducted from their home and
raped. And murdered.
And I've been saying that all along.
It's easy for you to be in Brentwood or living in the hills
(07:22):
in Hollywood and looking down upon the people of Los Angeles
as your personal, the play thing.
But Tom Holman, he says, look, you can portray this any way you
want, but we're doing our job. This is about enforcing the law
and again, we're not going to apologize for doing it.
We're stepping up, she says. They're going to, they're going
to mobilize or guess what, we'realready head of the game.
(07:43):
We were already mobilizing. We're going to bring National
Guard in tonight. We're going to continue doing
our job. We're going to push back on
these people and we're going to force a law.
And that started to on Sunday night.
Now we hear that the the riotinggoing on in the in San Francisco
starting to heat up. But again, this is all being
exacerbated by fringe groups behind the scenes who want to
(08:04):
so, so social discord. And one of those groups happens
to be called CHIRLA. They want to see the social
discord. It is the Coalition of Human
Immigration Rights. Documents reveal the group saw a
shocking jump from 12 million indonations to 34 million in
government grants just one year.And this group, according to
(08:26):
research done by At Data Republican, shows that they are
funded by a communist who is also a very successful
businessman in China. And and they are the ones who
are backing a lot of this writing right now.
So you've got anti ICE riders inLos Angeles being organized by
the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights of Los
(08:48):
Angeles, which itself is a group, an NGO, a nonprofit that
is being funded by a communist group operating in the US with
no transparency. And the party that is sponsoring
all of this is called the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
And all of this is documented. So.
So what you're seeing on television is is something that
(09:09):
is being provoked by interests who want to see America fall
apart. It's that simple.
And when you look at it through that lens, you understand that
it's Kabuki theater. And maybe it's a test run.
But as one Angelino said, none of this was going on during the
Biden administration, was it? No riots, no bricks being laid
(09:31):
out in the middle of the night, none of that stuff.
And then all of a sudden, Trump's taking on the deep
state. And what happens?
Social unrest. And now the Democrats come out
of the shadows and they blame Trump.
So this is it's not as complicated as you would think
it is when you know who the players are.
(09:52):
We'll continue. This is America today.
Welcome back to America Today. I want to play a couple of
(10:14):
clips. I want to also tell you just a
brief story so you have some context.
Having grown up in Los Angeles, it's one of these things where I
don't know how you, if you've not been to Los Angeles, if
you've never been there, if you've never gone in, it's
always a tragedy when you see your hometown falling apart, if
you've ever gone back home, maybe somewhere that you grew up
(10:36):
in, you have fond memories. And then you go back and you see
that it's something's changed some, some the spirit has
changed, something has been transformed.
There's no no longer what you would consider a safe space, for
lack of a better term. So it it grips me on that level,
but I also don't like the misrepresentation coming from
(10:57):
the government of California, which seems to want to blame
Trump, just like they blame Trump for George Floyd.
And this is squarely at the footof the previous administration.
Angelenos are saying this. Even the LAPD Captain Newsome
and Karen Bass, the mayor talking about how that saying
(11:20):
that the the federal government is provoking when they're just
doing their job. And the LA police captain who
was on the scene says that that's not the case at all.
Take a listen. To the people who are not happy
with the fact that ICE is in the, in the community doing what
ICE does, you know, it's I respect ICE for being a fellow
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law enforcement agency. They have their mission.
They have their what they have to do.
We don't engage in in that activity.
But again, we can't preclude them from doing that.
They have every right to do that.
As far as people have worried about the the violence that
we're seeing, It is violence that I've seen.
It's disgusting. It's escalated now since the
beginning of this incident. What we saw the first night was
(12:07):
was bad. What we've seen subsequent to
that is getting increasingly worse and more violent.
I'm going to do a little statistic test here and tell you
what the numbers look like in California and you might have
some understanding of why ICE has taken this on because these
are the numbers. You can't deny the numbers.
It's not an easy situation, but according to the California's
(12:31):
own records, there are between 1.8 million and 2.6 million
illegal immigrants in Californiaundocumented population in 2022.
This is during the midst of the open border where between 1.21
and 2.8 million people additionally have come in
(12:52):
through the Southern Border Migration Policy Institute and
DHS data officials report from the Migration Poly Institute
that California has over 2,000,000 undocumented migrants.
Now, many, probably most are, you know, they got jobs.
They're trying to make a better life.
If you've seen Mexico lately, you probably would want to run
(13:15):
too. I don't I don't besmirch them
for feeling the way that they feel, but you have to recognize
the criminal element and who is backing this criminal element.
You've got Chinese, they just what, seized 55 tons of meth
trying to be snuck through the border?
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Think of it as an industry. The cartels have an industry.
They are supplying the addicts of California and other states
with no different from, you know, going to your favorite
fast food restaurant, only it happens at night when you're
asleep in your neighborhood. Stay up some night at 3:00 in
the morning, look outside your window and see what's going on.
(13:56):
If you live in places like Compton or Paramount or downtown
Los Angeles, you see they're like vampires that come out at
night. And there's nothing wrong with
the federal government stepping in and trying to get some
control back because the state government won't do it.
And this is the issue. And the people in California,
Los Angeles is sitting and going, why doesn't our police do
(14:19):
their job? Well, because they're told by
the politicians not to do their job.
We had a gentleman on not long ago who explained that the way
that California policing used tobe was that if you saw somebody
that was suspicious in a neighborhood, you had the right
to go and question them. If you saw, say, somebody that
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didn't look like they belonged in, say, Beverly Hills at night,
walking with a hoodie on at 3:00in the morning.
It used to be the LAPD. We're encouraged to check it out
to prevent a crime from happening.
Now the position is you have to wait until the crime occurs
before you can step in. Does that sound like a way to
run second largest American city?
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No. So if you want to take the
position simply because you don't like Donald Trump and you
think thinks that he is a dictator like Gavin Newsom and
Karen Bass and others, then you would probably view this as
being an overreach of federal authority.
But what about the people on theground?
What about the, you know, the women of Los Angeles?
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How do you think they feel? To break it to you guys, but
you're not starting a revolutionby throwing blocks of cement at
ICE agents while they're drivingand while also blocking a
federal bus on the 101 freeway in LA.
You're not doing anything but besides putting people in danger
and you're being really annoying.
(15:48):
This is about enforcing the law,and again, we're not going to
apologize for doing it. We're stepping up.
If Ioffer any one of you a rent free home with no taxes to pay
in any of these gay neighborhoods and I said your
neighbors are MS13 terrorists orMexican mafia, I couldn't pay
you to live there. Coming up from the stream got.
(16:09):
A beautiful It's got a beautifulbaby.
Break it to you guys, but you'renot starting a revolution by
throwing blocks of cement at ICEagents while they're driving and
while also blocking a federal bus on the One O 1 freeway in
LA. You're not doing anything, but
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besides putting people in danger, you're being really
annoying. It's a beautiful.
He knows where to find me, come after me, arrest me, going on
everywhere. Just get it over with.
Tough guy like the. Flicker in black of a train.
On the track, it's got rhythm square.
What we're seeing in LA is chaoscaused by the administration.
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Every LAPD officer should be fired.
No benefits. No retiring package.
If you can't defend the city. That's paying, you get the.
Fuck out. Goodbye.
It's a beautiful noise. That's my Ode and Neil Diamond
(17:17):
because in my youth they had thethe song beautiful noise and it
was playing in the movie theaters as sort of like a a
teaser. And that's one of my memories.
And, and those were the days where LA was basically kind of a
cool place to be. I mean, it's always had its
problems. It's had its riots in the 60s
and 70s that I remember. And then of course, you know,
the OJ Simpson trial and all of the drama.
(17:40):
And then of course, later RodneyKing.
I mean, it's, you know, it's gotits scars.
There's no question about this. But what this what this is, is
not that those were just occasional upheavals, stress,
hot summer days, people getting their frustrations out.
This is not that. What this is, is an attempt to
(18:00):
sow social discord. And remember, we started off
this program that we have a Chinese billionaire who was
funding the NGOs and non government officials who run
these little cities and they support things like amnesty for
migrants. They support this Subregga
Garcia guy that's now back in the United States.
(18:22):
And they're basically, if not indirectly, directly tied to the
Open Society, George Soros and that ilk, the globalists who
don't believe in borders. And unfortunately, from my
perspective, I don't know how Los Angeles can recover.
The damage has already been inflicted.
Eventually this is going to lead.
If it's not quelled in the next couple of days and the rioters
(18:44):
don't start, stop throwing Molotov cocktails and breaking
up bricks and throwing them fromoverpasses.
What you're actually going to get to is you're going to get to
martial law in Los Angeles. Now in New York, it's a
different picture. The police are allowed now to do
what they got to do, and they'renot blocking ice.
There are people there that are trying to promote it and
(19:06):
provocateurs. But in essence, that seems to
have quelled for the moment. And what remains to be seen.
Of course, we'll continue to follow it.
And if you want to check out my website, we'll have the latest
news. Of course, you can check this
program on this great radio station in 24 hours, so until
then, be safe. And thank you for joining me on
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America Today. What we're seeing in LA is chaos
caused by the administration. People should exercise their
right to protest. That's their First Amendment
right. People should also exercise that
right peacefully. We do not want to play into the
administration's hands.
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JIM WATKINS
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