By Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation | June 16, 2025
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Monday that Democrats’ hopes that President Donald Trump would accede to “otherworldly” demands that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) end operations in cities like Los Angeles would be dashed.
Rioting spread to multiple cities after initially flaring up in Los Angeles following an ICE operation, with some Democrats demanding that ICE cease its operations in the Los Angeles area as a way to “restore order” in the city. Turley said a retreat was “not going to happen.”
“The president can flood the zone with the federal personnel, they may or may not be Guardsmen, but there is a rather large federal government that enforces federal law,” Turley told “America Reports” co-host Sandra Smith. “You just had Democratic leaders, including one who said, look, the federal government has to retreat from Los Angeles and other cities and peace can be restored. That’s not going to happen, right? The federal government is tasked with enforcing federal law.”
“If you’re a sanctuary city and you’re obstructing or not helping in the enforcement, you’ll have a larger federal presence to make up for that difference and you have some comments recently that are really otherworldly,” Turley continued.
“There was a city council member who asked the L.A. police chief to create a warning system for citizens to actually track federal officials and enforcement operations as they go out to arrest people so a warning can be given in specific neighborhoods and the chief rather diplomatically said I can’t do that because it would be a federal crime.”
Rioters stormed a building used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Portland, Oregon, Saturday as some “No Kings” demonstrations scheduled for that day turned violent.
Video posted to social media June 7 showed an individual, who the FBI later identified as Elpido Reyna in a post on X, throwing rocks at the windshields of vehicles containing federal law enforcement personnel with the FBI offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to Reyna’s arrest.
Resistance to ICE operations to arrest illegal immigrants has also included a Milwaukee judge who allegedly helped an illegal immigrant briefly evade ICE agents sent to arrest an illegal immigrant and Democratic Mayor Freddie O’Connell of Nashville releasing the names of ICE agents involved in a crackdown on illegal immigrants in the city.
Harold Hutchison is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation
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