While the media focuses on the disturbing incidences of rioting and looting in Los Angeles, it is avoiding telling the public the real story behind the headlines.
The left wants you to believe the Trump Administration is carrying out random “raids” targeting hard working migrants who simply came to America to pursue a better quality of life. But the truth is the administration has been focused on a “worst first” strategy, removing criminal aliens and those thought to be involved with international criminal gangs or Mexican cartels running human and drug trafficking operations.
The raid in Los Angeles that sparked the current riots highlights this fact.
As NBC reported, “The tensions started Friday, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and others arrested over 40 immigrants in raids targeting day laborers at a Home Depot parking lot and workers at the Ambiance Apparel clothing manufacturer, searching for ‘fictitious employee documents.’”
The fashion district in Los Angeles is well known to house fronts for money laundering operations. The money Mexican cartels make from selling drugs in the United States is laundered back to China using fake invoices for buying clothes. For example, DOJ prosecuted and convicted two individuals for running this kind of scheme just last October.
So when ICE showed up Ambiance Apparel clothing manufacturer, it wasn’t just to look for and deport illegal aliens. It was to investigate and disrupt a suspected money laundering, human trafficking, and drug distribution operation run by dangerous international cartels. And, perhaps, to rescue individuals who have been trafficked by the cartels and forced to work at the factory against their will as quasi-indentured servants.
Human trafficking isn’t just about getting paid to get people across the border. As my colleague Josh Treviño recently noted, getting into the U.S. often it is just the beginning. Many of the illegal aliens are then expected to work at these factories to pay off their debts or to avoid being further victims of violence. “Raiding” the factory may have saved people’s lives.
In this light, the organized protests look much more like the cartels trying to protect their investment than, as the media would tell it, offended Americans opposing administration policy.
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