In the past, those have been managed as a negotiated settlement in response to a civil rights lawsuit, and my opinion is that they were a back door to enforcing unpopular policies they wanted to implement anyway - using the fed enforcement as action as cover. (Like the Dominion - Fox lawsuit: agreed in advance, but using the legal case as the cover for payment.) Anyway I think those cases were decided before they were filed.
In this case the locals are truly opposed, so it may be a different process.
It's worth a read, just to see how mind-bogglingly huge this fraud is, along with other fraud busts they announced at the same time.
And much of it orchestrated by foreigners. Here's a snippet: "Twelve of these defendants have been arrested, including four defendants who were apprehended in Estonia as a result of international cooperation with Estonian law enforcement and seven defendants who were arrested at U.S. airports and the U.S. border with Mexico..."
This article doesn't say it, but the protest organizers try to get hotel management to sign a pledge promising not to host ICE agents. USA today is acting like it's a party, but it's really a basic protection racket: "sign here or we'll keep you from doing business by getting all your other guests to leave."
When they can, they also try to get hotel staff to strike--- deportation fear or solidarity with illegals, whatever works. Given that hotels employ a lot of illegals, it's a strong tactic. (Illegal staff also means the organizers get good intel on where to protest.)
They have forms ready and everything. https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/federal-agents-stay-at-la-area-hotels/
The primary goal is to annoy the hotels' other guests so much that the hotel will deny reservations to ICE. They try to get the hotels to sign a pledge; they have forms and everything. It's like a protection racket.
Denying sleep to ICE agents is a secondary objective.
This Xweeter is painting with a broad brush. Part of what he says is true, but it is mixed with lies.
Outside of the U.S., meritocracy is nearly an abstract concept. Here in the U.S., meritocracy used to be a reality, but lately has been disappearing, getting swamped by cultural nepotism imported from other, more corrupt countries. For me, the single biggest problem from immigration is that so many arrive with the expectation that corruption, nepotism, favoritism (all of which use racism as a convenient marker) are the ways to get ahead. They live their lives that way realistically and neither accept nor adapt to a culture of meritocracy: at a certain tipping point it becomes accepted, and a self-fulfilling prophecy.
What he says is fully true in his mind, possibly even in his community. Our struggle to reclaim our country requires us to struggle to make sure it does not become true in ours. Parsing out the truth in his statement is a necessary part of fighting to prevent it from becoming our reality.
Good summary. For the full thread, https://xcancel.com/karlmehta/status/1938947099347034410
For one, even though it makes sense, I didn't know that of the 40 nationwide injunctions, 35 of them came from 5 districts. That's 88% of the injunctions coming from districts that represent 5% of the country. (There are apparently 94 federal judicial districts.)
Don't shoot the messenger. I don't like it either, but here's the reason:
Because it brings us all to the precipice. It's horrible, but that's the warp speed op in a nutshell --- society needs a painfully cold icy bucketload of water, thrown hard right into the kisser and the eyeballs, to wake up.
We here on the board don't need it ourselves because we're awesomely illuminated, but because we share our country and our world with a bunch of innocent lemmings, the lemming mentality will eventually force masks and vaccinations upon us all. Too many lemmings are dangerous and eventually lead to slave bracelets and implanted tracking chips as demonstrated by the imposition of Covid controls.
Instead of that dystopia, we get a painful pill to swallow for the lemmings around us to jolt themselves from their stupor, and wake up to join us in the fight for freedom: your freedom, my freedom and everyone's. As Q says, we were close to losing it all.
Whether we need Mayor Zohran for that to happen is a valid question. I don't know the answer. It would be nice if candidate Zohran were enough.
But for the people here rooting for it, that's the reason. We're all tired of the yucky medicine and want to get it over with. But we also know it has to be done right.
(FWIW, I'm in L.A. and can tell you that D.A. Gascón among other pain points woke up a lot of sleepers that would've kept blithely sleeping and allowing workplace covid testing, but are now helping to wake up others.)
There's a post where Q suggests they can be made into gov't utilities. I think that will happen, if it hasn't already. For example, Amazon could be run like the post office, offering logistics and a sales platform to every small business (and eliminating Amazon's unfair efforts to compete against manufacturers and brands).
Acts chapter 3 comes to mind. Regardless of your opinion, you'll find out for yourself eventually. In the meantime keep an open mind: lots of true things make no sense at all. When you have experienced truth, any debate will be academic.
Good thing they're camouflaged.