President Donald Trump announced a new phase of his immigration enforcement strategy, directing ICE to ramp up deportation efforts in major Democratic-run cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Speaking at the G7 Summit on Monday, Trump said these sanctuary cities have been “overrun by criminals” and are the “core of the Democrat Power Center.”
Rioters in Portland, Oregon, targeted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility during Saturday’s “No Kings” anti-Trump protests, resulting in injuries to several federal officers. The unrest coincided with President Donald Trump’s celebration of the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary in Washington, D.C., which drew widespread demonstrations across the country.
What began as a reaction to ICE raids in Los Angeles has escalated into ideologically driven chaos as militant protesters invoke Palestinian "intifada" rhetoric, burn American flags, and promote anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda. Violent demonstrations in major U.S. cities, including New York and Los Angeles, now bear the hallmarks of foreign-inspired insurgency movements.
The Justice Department has filed a federal lawsuit against the state of New York over its 2020 Protect Our Courts Act, accusing the state of deliberately obstructing federal immigration enforcement by banning arrests near courthouses. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Albany, argues the law violates the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, which gives federal law primacy over conflicting state statutes.
An English instructor at Glendale Community College, Julie Gamberg, allegedly sent an email on June 9 encouraging students and faculty to protest ICE operations in downtown Los Angeles.
