Who’s Behind the Riots? ICE’s Rising Arrest Rates & Defunding DeSantis – Top 3 Takeaways – June 11th, 2025
Takeaway #1: Who’s behind the riots?
By now you probably know that there’s nothing spontaneous and very little that’s peaceful regarding the LA riots. By Tuesday night the protests, that often arrive at the definition of riots, reached a minimum of 24 cities across the country. From LA to Seattle on the Left Coast to Boston and New York on the east coast, the BLM summer of 2020 playbook is back in vogue. And it’s the usual suspects that are driving the tropes that have led to the mobilization of troops. Speaking of mobilization – it's one of the things the Marxist Left is especially deft at doing, and that’s what’s been done here. Specific to the LA riots here’s who’s really behind these highly orchestrated riots – you'll hear some familiar names: Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. This coalition, which recently received $34 million in grants from the state of California, was found mobilizing rioters at two different locations. Then you have the good ‘ole SEIU. The Service Employees International Union’s involvement was well known as it was the California president of SEIU, David Huerta, who was arrested for obstructing federal agents from conducting an illegal immigration raid. Then there is the entity that’s been active in mobilizing in many of the cities where the riots began to spread – the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Funded by billionaire Marxist Neville Roy Singham, the PSL, as it’s known, has an organized presence in over 100 communities within the US. PSL has been seen actively organizing in LA but also in other cities across the country. Effectively for Singham and his PSL, they lie in wait for a Rules for Radicals opportunity of “never allowing a good crisis to go to waste”. Or in the PSL’s case creating one as the case maybe happen to be. Similar in spirit, the Democratic Socialists of America openly promoted participation in the riots in multiple languages. And having mentioned that the LA (and expanding) riots have a similar 2020 kind of feel, they wouldn’t be complete with Black Lives Matter being on the scene. Led by Melina Abdullah, who is incidentally is a Professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, has organized BLM “Ice Out” demonstrations in LA, while promoting the message that “Shutdowns are essential, Resist! Resist! Resist!”. So, there’s a minimum of five Marxist organizations that’ve been behind the riots this time as they desperately seek to collapse the system from within – which by the way is exactly what the Biden administration's open border agenda was about anyway. Bring in unlimited, and unsustainable numbers of illegal immigrants – keep them here, and collapse the system. It’s all been part of the plan, which is in part why they’re fighting so hard to keep illegal immigrants here. About that...
Takeaway #2: Picking up the pace
It’d been rather well known that President Trump had become frustrated with the pace of ICE detentions and deportations. Specifically, they weren’t happening anywhere nearly as quickly as he’d hoped. Much of that has had to do with the courts; some of it has had to do with sanctuary states and cities, but what we’ve seen over the past week is that ICE has been dramatically picking up the pace of detentions. Prior to last week the Trump administration had been pacing an average of 660 arrests/detentions per day. It’s a number that was greater than double the 300 daily arrests by the Biden administration last year...however it’s a pace that would take approximately 18,181 days, or just under 50 years, to simply detain and disappear the illegal immigrants who came into the country during Biden’s four years. Which, btw, when you stop and think about that for a minute, really puts into perspective the extent of the lawlessness allowed in, and the damage done by the previous administration. In any case since the start of last week, ICE has picked up the pace by logging 2,000+ arrest days, or more than three times as many as what we’d seen previously. The increase in activity is what likely drew the attention of the aforementioned Marxists who’ve staged the riots in part for the purpose of trying to shut ICE’s detention and deportation efforts down at some of the most fertile grounds. The Supreme Court still needs to step in to put an end to the absurdity of every criminal illegal immigrant being granted “due process” as some judges and lower courts have ruled, but hopefully ICE’s recent pace is a sustainable sign of what’s to come with the potential ramp up for mass deportations once the legal nonsense is done.
Takeaway #3: Defunding DeSantis
At this rate there’s a chance that Congress will pass President Trump’s OBBB (or the DAB if you prefer, or the OBIT as I currently am inclined to refer to it) before our state legislature passes its own budget. It can be argued that the entire state legislative session this year has been in part personal between House Speaker Daniel Perez and Governor DeSantis. As the budget battle wages in Tallahassee, something that seems to have been decided is that Hope Florida will be defunded. The Casey DeSantis-led initiative that’s been mired in controversy over the steering of $10 million as part of a state settlement last year, appears to be on the precipice of not receiving any state funding for the upcoming year. The House budget has left funding for Hope Florida out right along, and the most recent budget negotiations show that the state senate has been willing to drop the dough allocated to Hope to zero as well. It might be that legislators don’t feel the program is the best use of tax money, it may be that it’s personal for Perez as he’s had a bug up his ... regarding the DeSantis’ ever since he became House speaker. It may be both of those things. For now, it looks like Casey’s signature program is likely to be defunded.