Donald Trump deployed the US military to repress protesters in Los Angeles, California, as people flooded the streets to denounce the abuse of immigrants by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Ben Norton discusses how the oppressive tactics used by the empire eventually return home.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYcRBkB2KCw
Topics
0:00 LA protests
0:28 California government rebukes Trump
1:10 Police shoot journalists
1:48 Empire's tactics come home
2:11 Militarization of US police
2:59 Private prison corporations
3:43 Trump wages war inside his country
4:43 Foreign flags and Israel
5:27 Trump deports pro-Palestine protesters
6:13 Mahmoud Khalil, political prisoner
7:05 Lawlessness of ICE
8:26 ICE targets children
8:50 ICE's criminal behavior
12:54 ICE targets migrants with tattoos
14:11 Trump's police state budget
15:24 Scapegoating immigrants
16:26 Unemployment
17:14 Essential workers
18:03 Taxes
18:47 Crime rates
19:34 US imperial hypocrisy
19:46 Hong Kong riots
21:02 US coups in Latin America
22:18 US guns in Mexico
23:38 Obama, Biden, and Trump
24:12 Imperial boomerang
24:38 Outro
