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[quote=Anonymous]New reporting from the WSJ (hardly a leftist rag) about what sparked the protests in LA--it was Stephen Miller. No surprise there, but I am surprised that the WSJ is the one reporting this and tracing the origins of the protests to Miller.

[b]The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown[/b]
[i]After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to ‘just go out there and arrest illegal aliens’[/i]
https://apple.news/AB0BBJgv9SaqSeKW7dmeHTA

[quote]Agents didn’t need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire, or 7-Eleven convenience stores. Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people right away. “Who here thinks they can do it?” Miller said, asking for a show of hands.

ICE agents appeared to follow Miller’s tip and conducted an immigration sweep Friday at the Home Depot in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Westlake in Los Angeles, [b]helping set off a weekend of protests around Los Angeles County[/b], including at the federal detention center in the city’s downtown. On Saturday, Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to Southern California, despite objections by Gov. Gavin Newsom.[/quote]

The article goes on to give a number of examples of mistakes made in arresting migrants or cases where disproportionate force or deception was used. Seems that Miller's little "pep talk" to ICE management has set off a level of zeal and cruelty in arrests that are out of the norm.

[quote]There are no written directives, but officers have been told to “do what you need to do” to make more arrests, according to current and former ICE officials familiar with the directives. [b]The administration’s immigration enforcement is a sharp break with past government practices[/b], according to attorneys, immigration advocates and officials from previous administrations.

Federal agents make [b]warrantless arrests[/b]. [b]Masked agents take people into custody without identifying themselves.[/b] Plainclothes agents in at least a dozen cities have arrested migrants who showed up to their court hearings. And across the U.S., people suspected of being in the country illegally are [b]disappearing into the federal detention system without notice to families or lawyers[/b], according to attorneys, witnesses and officials.[/quote][/quote]

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