Rioters in Los Angeles are fighting to keep rapists, murderers, gangbangers and other violent criminals loose on city streets, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirms this week contradicting open border groups, media outlets and California Democrats who claim only hard-working, law-abiding immigrants were cruelly arrested in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICEO) sweeps that ignited pandemonium in the City of Angels. Federal agents and local police officers have been violently attacked, cars set on fire, businesses looted and roads blocked. Elected officials in the Golden State condemn the ICE operations as an attack on immigrant families and mainstream media outlets downplay the riots as protests and civil unrest. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed rioters burning cars and breaking windows as being caught up in “the exuberance of the moment.” The mainstream media coverage has also focused on the family men arrested by ICE and the spouses and children suffering over their sudden absence. A local newspaper story features an arrested migrant’s wife who joined a peaceful protest held by families of other detained men to make a public plea for help and due process.

DHS is setting the record straight by releasing detailed criminal information about the illegal immigrants—all men—recently arrested in the L.A. sweep, which started about a week ago. California sanctuary politicians and rioters are defending heinous illegal alien criminals including child pedophiles and other violent offenders at the expense of Americans’ safety, the agency created after 9/11 to safeguard the nation writes in a statement issued this week. Instead of rioting, Californians should be thanking ICE officers who make our communities safe, DHS further points out, questioning why California Governor Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass care more about violent criminal illegal aliens than they do about protecting their own citizens? While federal agents were getting assaulted in Bass’s city, she sided with lawlessness over law enforcement, according to ICE Director Todd Lyons, who reveals the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) took over two hours to respond when his agents, vastly outnumbered by over 1,000 rioters, were surrounded and attacked. “The brave men and women of ICE were in Los Angeles arresting criminal illegal aliens including gang members, drug traffickers and those with a history of assault, cruelty to children, domestic violence, robbery, and smuggling,” Lyons said.

DHS assures that ICE will continue to “arrest vicious illegal alien criminals” even as rioters disrupt law enforcement. Fortunately, President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard and Marines to maintain order. Bass, L.A.’s leftist mayor, finally implemented a curfew after several nights of extensive looting and vandalism. She insists most of the rioters are peacefully demonstrating and called the curfew an effort to “curb bad actors who do not support the immigrant community.” She also demands that the immigration raids stop along with nearly two dozen other elected officials in the region. “When you raid Home Depots and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart, and when you deploy troops to our streets, you’re not trying to keep anyone safe – you’re trying to cause fear and panic,” said Bass, who was on a trip to Africa while her city burned earlier this year. She accused Trump of triggering a “chaotic escalation” by sending federalized troops and initially described the rioting as “reports of unrest.”

Here are some of the illegal immigrants arrested in the recent L.A. operation, which the feds say is ongoing. The DHS announcement includes photos of the perpetrators as well. They include Cuong Chanh Phan, who committed a notorious gang-affiliated murder of two teenagers at a graduation party; Eswin Uriel Castro, previously deported with criminal convictions for child molestation and being armed with a dangerous weapon. He has also been arrested for robbery and domestic violence; Anastacio Enrique Solis-Salinas, a Nicaragua convict, has convictions for domestic violence and hit and run and has been arrested for willful cruelty to a child; Rafael Gamez-Sanchez has been convicted of vehicular manslaughter; Miguel Angel Palafox-Montes, previously returned to Mexico twice, has been convicted of grand theft, narcotics violations and identity theft and has been arrested for battery and burglary; Dzhakhar Aslambekov, a Russian illegal immigrant, was recently arrested for fraud related to government assistance programs. The list of criminal offenders goes on and on, the “worst of the worst illegal alien criminals in Los Angeles,” DHS assures.

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