My good friend — OK, OK, I doubt he considers himself my good friend — Will Bunch, the far-left national columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, seems to think that this is terribly, terribly important! From The Wall Street Journal:

The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown

After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to ‘just go out there and arrest illegal aliens’

By Elizabeth Findell, Ruth Simon, Michelle Hackman, and Tarini Parti | Monday, June 9, 2025 | 9:00 PM EDT

Even with the high-profile arrests of suspects by masked immigration agents and the plane loads of migrants swiftly ferried out of the U.S., President Trump was falling short of the number of daily deportations carried out by the Biden administration in its final year.

So in late May, Stephen Miller, a top White House aide and the architect of the president’s immigration agenda, addressed a meeting at the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. The message was clear: The president, who promised to deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally, wasn’t pleased. The agency had better step it up.

Gang members and violent criminals, what Trump called the “worst of the worst,” weren’t the sole target of deportations. Federal agents needed to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens,” Miller told top ICE officials, who had come from across the U.S., according to people familiar with the meeting.

Agents didn’t need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire, or 7-Eleven convenience stores. Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people right away.

So shocking! Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were sent out to look for illegal immigrants where illegal immigrants gather.

We already know that many of the illegals aren’t out raping and killing, and are just here to work. Our good friends on the left have been whining that they can’t get their lawns mowed without the illegals, although many of them look physically fit enough to push a lawnmower. I’m 72, and I still cut my own 3+ acres of grass — not all of which can be done with a riding lawnmower — and cut brush and trim trees. If I can do it, they can do it!

ICE agents appeared to follow Miller’s tip and conducted an immigration sweep Friday at the Home Depot in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Westlake in Los Angeles, helping set off a weekend of protests around Los Angeles County, including at the federal detention center in the city’s downtown. On Saturday, Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to Southern California, despite objections by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Law-enforcement officers used tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang stun grenades against increasingly unruly crowds. Demonstrators threw tree branches, scooters, fireworks and debris from a freeway overpass onto police vehicles below. The unrest continued Monday and roughly 700 Marines were dispatched to protect federal property and personnel.

Do you know where President Trump didn’t have to send the National Guard to quell riots? There was a demonstration in Asheville, North Carolina, opposed to ICE and immigration enforcement on Monday, and despite some nasty signs, the demonstration was peaceful. No one was hurt, no rocks were thrown, and the demonstrators remained civilized.

I previously reported on a wholly peaceful demonstration on the University of Kentucky campus in support of Hamas and the ‘Palestinians,’ a cause I completely oppose, but nevertheless complimented for remaining peaceful, when a lot of other pro-Hamas and pro-‘Palestinian’ demonstrations were anything but. There would be no need to the National Guard were the demonstrations in Los Angeles peaceful.

In the end, the illegal immigrants are here in violation of the law. The left would have you believe that their only crime was crossing the border illegally or overstaying a visa, but that isn’t true. To work in the United States legally, your employer and you have to complete an Immigration Form I-9, which certifies your ability to work in the US legally, and that requires presentation of certain documents, documents to prove you are a United States citizen — birth certificate, Real ID, or passport and Social Security card — or a green card, permitting non-citizens legally to work. Many illegals have presented forged documents to get past this, and many companies have turned a blind eye to such.

The illegals at Home Depot? Many are day laborers, hoping to pick up a day’s work for cash, a way of avoiding the necessary documentation and of evading income taxes.

It’s pretty simple: illegals are breaking the law every day that they are here. They all need to go.

The United States does need immigrants, but we need legal immigrants, immigrants who will follow the laws and assimilate into our society and culture. We need immigrants who will apply to move here, and present evidence of good conduct, decent physical health, the potential to support themselves, and strong family life before we allow them to cross the border. Breaking the law to break into our country is prima facie evidence of bad character.