New knowledge from the Metropolis of Los Angeles’ Controller exhibits that anti-ICE riots throughout town had value taxpayers over $32 million between June 1 and June 17.
LA Metropolis Controller Kenneth Mejia tried to spin numbers on X, attributing the huge value to town to “ICE raids.”
“$29.5 million or 92% pertains to LAPD’s response to protests in opposition to ICE, together with citywide tactical alert prices,” he stated, failing to say the violence by so-called protesters that spurred police responses.
Police have arrested no less than 561 individuals for the reason that riots began earlier this month.
He additionally talked about the “$1.4 million pertains to clean-up / public property injury,” however someway, it’s ICE’s fault that leftist rioters and unlawful aliens brought about over a million {dollars} in injury.
The overall, roughly $32 million, “doesn’t embrace potential lawsuits,” Mejia stated.
UPDATE: ICE RAIDS HAVE NOW COST LA TAXPAYERS $32 MILLION
$29.5 million or 92% pertains to LAPD’s response to protests in opposition to ICE together with citywide tactical alert prices
️ $1.4 million pertains to clean-up / public property injury
⚖️ Doesn’t embrace potential lawsuits pic.twitter.com/6sWZALDKeZ
— LA Metropolis Controller Kenneth Mejia (@lacontroller) June 20, 2025
ICE brokers have confronted a 500% improve as a result of Democrats like Mejia mendacity to the American individuals and defaming regulation enforcement like this.
It may be recalled that Governor Gavin Newsom sued President Trump for exercising his authority as President to federalize the Nationwide Guard and stop the riots from changing into much more violent and costing extra money. Trump had despatched in 4,000 Nationwide Guard Troops to assist quell the riots.
After profitable a leftist federal decide in San Francisco ordered President Trump to return management of the Nationwide Guard to California, the Ninth Circuit Appeals Courtroom unanimously sided with Trump, permitting him to maintain the California Nationwide Guard deployed.
Nonetheless, leftist radicals and unlawful aliens are nonetheless out within the streets attacking regulation enforcement and destroying public property.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, two Border Patrol autos have been rammed, their tires slashed, and home windows smashed on Friday in Bell and Maywood, California, as violent mobs broke out within the space.
