Effectively, we may simply cancel baseball.
And, to be protected, each doughnut store in Los Angeles ought to be closed pending investigation.
Some Dodgers followers could be undocumented, which may clarify why federal brokers had been camped close to Dodger Stadium on Thursday however denied entry.
Or there could possibly be one more reason.
Roughly 1 / 4 of the gamers in Main League Baseball are from exterior the nation. These foreigners have visas, as I perceive it, however nowadays, the Trump administration has made clear that short-term protected authorized standing isn’t any assure in opposition to ejection. Not from a recreation, however from the nation.
Has anyone checked Shohei Ohtani’s papers recently? Or these of Teoscar Hernández, Kim Hye-seong or Yoshinobu Yamamoto?
And what in regards to the doughnuts?
It’s no secret in Los Angeles that lots of doughnut retailers are run by immigrants. So it will possibly’t be a coincidence that, on Wednesday, brokers arrested a number of males at a bus cease close to a Winchell’s Donut Home in Pasadena.
State Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) posted feedback and video on social media.
“As you possibly can see, these ICE brokers are pointing weapons at harmless people, no warrants, no explanations, simply worry and intimidation,” Chu wrote, including that brokers “masked and armed like a militia” represent an “completely vile” abuse of energy.
This nation is beneath menace like by no means earlier than. Immigrants enjoying baseball, making doughnuts, hustling building jobs at day laborer websites, altering the diapers of seniors with bodily and cognitive disabilities.
However for all of that, it may be a bit troublesome at occasions to comply with the Trump administration’s considering.
Sooner or later we had been instructed the plan is to make 3,000 arrests a day.
Then Trump shortly reversed course, saying raids on farms, inns and eating places could be curtailed as a result of he realized in a surprising revelation from employers that “our very aggressive coverage on immigration is taking superb, very long time employees away from them, with these jobs being nearly unattainable to interchange.”
Then, nearly instantly, the administration is again to going after everybody.
I’ve a hunch as to why that’s.
To start with, it’s value noting that consistency has lengthy been a difficulty for the president, a lot in order that he ought to be carrying flip-flops always. To the Oval Workplace, to the golf course, to mattress. All over the place.
And but, though we’re used to him saying one factor and doing one other, I feel one thing else is at play right here.
Trump has stored some marketing campaign guarantees, however struck out on key vows, and he’s not a man who handles defeat nicely.
Grocery costs had been imagined to drop on Day 1, and a brand new age of American prosperity was about to start.
How’s that going, people?
He was going to finish the battle in Ukraine earlier than he even took workplace, after which put an finish to the battle within the Center East.
Hmmmmmmmm.
He was going to usher in a brand new period of funds accountability along with his buddy Elon Musk main the best way.
Effectively, that was a fast and ugly divorce, and Trump’s “Huge Lovely Invoice” provides $3 trillion to the nationwide debt.
We all know Trump loves to look at tv, so we will solely assume that after he threw himself a party with a army parade on Saturday, he needed to have caught information clips of hundreds of thousands of Individuals marching at “No Kings Day” rallies throughout the nation, together with in pink states.
Ouch.
I’m questioning if Trump noticed the identical signal I noticed on the El Segundo demonstration, which was about a sure spouse who hasn’t spent a lot time within the White Home: “If Melania doesn’t need to stay with him, America shouldn’t need to both.”
Weak males, beneath duress, flex their muscular tissues.
Trump can deport, and so he’ll. It may damage the economic system, however that gained’t cease him.
Catch a Dodgers recreation whilst you can, and refill on doughnuts.
steve.lopez@latimes.com
