The ICE Raids May Be Coming to a State Near You
With additional funding from the Big Beautiful Bill, the raids are expanding beyond L.A.
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Here are today’s highlights:
President Trump says the deadline for tariff deals is August 1.
The president also says that the tariff on foreign copper will be 50 percent, on foreign pharmaceuticals 200 percent.
Amid the uncertainty, a retailer who sells imported shoes, packs it in.
Private equity firms are setting their sites on businesses in youth sports.
IMMIGRATION
The ICE raids are emptying L.A. and surging in every state: “This is one of the busiest intersections in Los Angeles, typically bustling with people and cars in the middle of a workday. But today the car wash is closed. The taco stand that is usually in front of the gas station is gone. There’s no one waiting at the bus stop, and the sidewalks are oddly empty. In L.A., the story of the federal government’s immigration reign of terror is being told through absence: the restaurants, shops, and car washes shuttered because workers didn’t show up; the canceled doctor appointments; the drop in bus ridership; the temporary closure of the local farmers market due to vendors dropping out; the housekeepers, nannies, and gardeners missing from Westside homes; the eerie hush in neighborhoods normally filled with the noise of industry and community; the Fourth of July parades and fireworks shows that were quietly canceled or postponed.”
“Since ICE began its aggressive and often violent campaign that aims to round up 3,000 undocumented people each day, the effects have rippled out to just about everyone here. Half the residents of LA are Latino, and many of them have at least one family member who is undocumented. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem insists that agents are only removing violent criminals, people who are a threat to legal Americans. But the data — and the experiences of thousands of my fellow Angelenos — say otherwise.”
“ICE arrests are surging in every state, to the point that federal authorities are scrambling to open new detention centers. Sure, maybe a few detentions involved gang members and drug traffickers, and hooray for that. No one is arguing that violent criminals should get a pass. But 59,000? That’s the number of people ICE had detained across the nation as of June 23, only about 7 percent of whom had convictions for violent crimes.” READ MORE
