Rep. Gomez Responds to Trump’s Invasion of US Cities
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What footage shows federal agents raiding stores in Cicero and Chicago?
All hell is breaking loose right now across the United States, and Donald Trump says that he really now wants to send all of the armed forces into blue states and blue cities. I'll show you what's going on. This is in Cicero, Illinois. It's going on throughout Chicago and the surrounding areas. This is at a Menards store. This is what was seen outside as Trump's border patrol agents, Gestapo ICE agents are out there just kind of indiscriminately smashing windows, kidnapping people, using chemical warfare on people. This is what the United States has become under this despicable Trump regime. Let me show you.
I think you get the point. And Menards, the store, told its employees apparently to delete any videos they took of today's ice raid or they would be fired. The manager told contract security guard to delete his recording of the arrest. He refused. And you'll see there the video showing the ICE agents, Border Patrol agents, shattering both truck windows, dragging a man out. I'll show you another one here that Congress member Gomez posted, a repost of Patriot Takes, who helped us capture this image here. Play this clip.
Get the fuck out of here! Get the fuck out of here! Get the fuck out of here! Get the fuck out of here! Get the fuck out of here! Get the fuck out of here! Get the fuck out of here! I'm happy to be so kind. I'll eat like you. I'll move like you. Get awesome. Stop being recorded.
Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Jimmy Gomez right here in my hometown, Los Angeles, California. Great to see you again, Congress member. You posted, this video out of Chicago is a warning. Border Patrol agents dragged a 67-year-old U.S. citizen from his car, breaking six ribs as children in Halloween costumes watched in horror. Trump's deportation machine is out of control. No one's rights are safe. Talk to us about what you're seeing across the country, frankly. We saw it here in L.A. with their invasions, MacArthur Park, other places. Talk to us about it.
Well, one of the things we're seeing is that Donald Trump wants to normalize this kind of behavior. He wants to normalize the National Guard being federalized, sent into democratic cities, also wants to normalize the use of Marines and law enforcement for law enforcement purposes. And that's dangerous because what he wants us to do is to be lulled into complacency. not to respond when we see one of our neighbors documented or not, when they're dragged out of their car or their house or the hospital or the court, and that it's just another day in America. That's what he wants. And that's why it's so important to show these videos, to say that if it happens in a Democratic city, it will eventually happen in a Republican or a red city.
It's going to spread and it's going to get worse. And especially if Democrats win back the House, he's gonna become more aggressive, more belligerent. He's gonna use these troops all over the country unless we put a check on his power. And that's why this is, winning the House is just the first step because, and once we do, we're gonna have a trapped wild animal on our hands and we're gonna have to figure out how to contain him because he's gonna get more belligerent. And this,
is just a small taste of what we're going to see across the country you know i think governor newsom described it aptly i mean as you say trapped wild animal i think newsom referred to trump as an invasive species who is literally destroying the country you know and the world uh day by day uh it does seem that he thought by now i mean if we want to talk about hope out of this i think he thought by now that through the intimidation the fear control of corporate media that americans would be suppressed and would be obedient and behave the way you see your republican colleague colleagues do that all of our brains would be maga mush but the fact that these no kings protests keep growing that he's becoming even more and more unpopular if that's even possible
historically unpopular so he runs to asia while ripping away people's health care uh ripping away people's snap and then sending the ice gestapo and frankly there's no i don't really see a distinction between those people in military fatigues and the military there is personal military force invading cities right now regardless of within the national guard uh greg bovino bovino out there throwing gas canisters it seems like he's lashing out because he thought
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