Oh, Los Angeles — the city where the laws are optional, the outrage is performative, and the border apparently doesn’t exist unless it’s keeping taxpayers in.
It was barely sunrise in Westlake when a pack of federal agents showed up outside a Home Depot. Not in the usual black SUVs or tactical vans, mind you — no, they rolled up Trojan Horse-style in a yellow Penske rental truck. You know, the kind people use to move their kids into college? Except instead of loading up twin mattresses and IKEA lamps, this one was part of an operation that nabbed 16 illegal immigrants from Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Sixteen. At one location. In one morning.
Imagine you’re at Home Depot and a Penske truck rolls open and 20 ICE agents rush out and start arresting illegals 🤣🤣
I could watch this video over and over again pic.twitter.com/UnLsfZI8y2
— Based Bandita (@MissVega8888) August 6, 2025
You’d think maybe someone in Los Angeles leadership would ask, “Wait, how many more are out there?” But no — instead, Mayor Karen Bass grabbed her moral megaphone and went straight for the script: Unconstitutional, dangerous, discriminatory. Ah, yes, the usual cocktail of buzzwords, stirred, shaken, and served before the facts are even clear. Because when federal agents enforce federal law, it’s now apparently “terrorizing.”
Let’s just sit with that for a second.
“Terrorizing.”
Not the gang violence that’s seeped into LA neighborhoods. Not the drug trafficking. Not the human smuggling rings operating with disturbing efficiency. Nope — the real threat? Immigration officers using a rental truck and doing their job before morning traffic.
Cue the pearl-clutching. The Mayor’s Office is now “gathering information” and exploring “legal options.” Legal options against the federal government… for enforcing federal immigration laws.
Now that’s some California logic.
Meanwhile, the United Farm Workers jumped in to say they’re “deeply concerned” that the raid might violate a court order. Not that illegal immigration might be, you know, illegal. But that the agents weren’t polite enough about it. You’ve got to love a movement so tangled up in ideological purity that it forgets the average American might just want laws enforced, neighborhoods safe, and jobs available to citizens first.
But wait — it gets better.
Penske, bless their corporate heart, was absolutely horrified that their truck was used to move people in a way that violated company policy. “We strictly prohibit the transportation of people in the cargo area of our vehicles under any circumstances,” their statement read, like they were reading off the side of the truck. This is the same Penske, mind you, whose vehicles were previously used by smugglers. DHS fired back with a screenshot from a Fox News story and a polite but pointed “Silence speaks volumes.”
@PenskeMoving is about to find out the Streisand effect will get them bud lighted.
They thought it was a good idea to issue a statement regarding the use of one of their trucks for an ICE raid, but said nothing when their truck was used for human and child trafficking. pic.twitter.com/eYjaflQ1wS
— Need More Covfefe ☕️ (@holee_chitt) August 6, 2025
Mic. Drop.
And then came Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli with the kind of statement that probably made LA’s political class spill their organic oat milk: “For those who thought immigration enforcement had stopped in Southern California, think again.”
Translation: The gloves are coming off.
Here’s the part that should have everyone’s attention: this wasn’t some random sweep. It was a targeted operation. Sixteen individuals. From multiple countries. In one morning. In one neighborhood. What do you think that says about the scale of the problem?
But LA’s leadership isn’t focused on the lawbreaking. They’re focused on how the law was enforced. Too early, too discreet, too effective. Can’t have that — it disrupts the narrative that ICE is some rogue agency instead of a constitutionally authorized arm of national security.
And here’s where the emotional temperature spikes: This isn’t just about immigration anymore. It’s about control. About whether cities can just opt out of federal law because it offends their ideological sensibilities. About whether the safety of American citizens comes second to political theatrics.
The agents didn’t storm into homes. They didn’t drag people off the streets. They went to a public place, with a warrant, and did what their badges authorize them to do.
If that’s now “un-American,” maybe the people crying about it should take a long, hard look at what American even means anymore.
Because right now, it looks like the only thing more offensive than crossing the border illegally… is actually getting caught.
