LA County Declares Emergency Over Raids, Ignores Architect of US Asylum Collapse
LA County supervisors declared an emergency due to federal immigration raids, a direct response to the human cost of a broken system. The Hill, like many outlets, frames this as a localized reaction to 'Trump's hardline policies' without mentioning that the Biden administration has, on multiple fronts, continued and even expanded some of these very approaches. Historically, the rhetoric shifts,
but the fundamental architecture of an ever-militarized border and punitive enforcement remains largely intact across administrations. Why isn't the 'emergency' declared over the federal policies themselves? It's almost as if the 'emergency' isn't the raids, but the public acknowledgment that these are state-sanctioned abductions of people seeking refuge. While LA scrambles to fund legal aid, how
many billions are still being funneled into border patrol and detention centers, often by the same federal government that claims to be addressing humanitarian concerns? The problem isn't just Trump, it's a bipartisan commitment to treating human beings as a 'problem' to be managed, rather than people deserving of dignity and due process.