Since June 7, Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops and marines to Los Angeles to support ICE's immigration enforcement, prompting local protests against these actions. Mainstream media often misrepresents the protests, reflecting narratives of violence or passivity instead of the active resistance led by immigrant rights organizers and community groups. Hundreds gathered at MacArthur Park to reclaim the space, wearing shirts representing various labor and immigrant rights organizations, demonstrating solidarity against escalating immigration raids. These protests are likened to historical movements for justice and order.
On the ground, in the neighborhoods that have borne the brunt of this assault, immigrant rights organizers, trade unions, and community groups have been feeling their way toward building a resistance movement against the sweeps.
These protesters, who refuse to go silently into the night of American reaction, are the heroes of our age.
Many of the demonstrators wore Unite Here Local 11 red T-shirts. Others, who had walked out of their jobs in local fast food restaurants to protest the escalating immigration crackdown, wore purple SEIU shirts.
One day, if there is any arc of justice, they will be recognized as such.
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