The Communist Party USA condemns the Trump-ordered violence in Los Angeles (LA). We demand peace and safety in working-class streets, and an end to mass deportations and the anti-migrant and racist hate that are the hallmark of Trump’s agenda. We condemn the use of militarized National Guard and the deployment today of Marines in LA, and the threat of using further military force to oppress the people’s resistance, the seizure of immigrants off the streets, from their workplaces, from their immigration court hearings, and hospitals. Our nation cannot continue to be a place where fathers and mothers disappear and never return to their children. Our nation cannot continue to devolve into Trump-led lawlessness, where the justice and military arms of the government are used to incite fear in working people and immigrants going about their lives.

The resistance is active in Los Angeles against Donald Trump and the MAGA agenda. While Trump targets immigrants, he is also focused on Black-led cities, attacking mayors Karen Bass of Los Angeles, Newark’s progressive mayor Ras Baraka, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. The thrust of Trump’s actions is violent and racist, and is designed to incite flashpoints that would justify further deployments of National Guard and U.S. troops. Don’t fall into that trap. The use of anonymous people without uniforms or identification to rip people away from their children in the street and disappear them, leaving their children alone and separated from their caregivers, is inhumane and unjust. Flooding Los Angeles with National Guard and regular military to stem a fictional “invasion” by migrants is a racist imposition of power in a state that has a large economy and that is not “loyal” to Trump, not having voted for him in the Presidential elections.

Today it’s Los Angeles, but if Trump gets away with it in Los Angeles, what is going to stop him elsewhere?

We demand the immediate release of SEIU California President David Huerta and all those detained for observing or protesting the actions of the police, who are exposed again as serving the same masters they did during the days of chattel slavery – the racists and the exploiters in power.

The AFL-CIO has declared June 9th a day of action and led the organization of two prior days of protest in downtown Los Angeles. They said:

“The California Federation of Labor Unions calls for the immediate release of our Vice President and President of SEIU California and SEIU-USWW, David Huerta, who was injured and detained at the site of one of today’s ICE raids in Los Angeles….We call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities, disrupting our economy, and hurting all working people. Immigrant workers are essential to our society: feeding our nation, caring for our elders, cleaning our workplaces, and building our homes.” (Team AFL-CIO Daily Brief for Jun 9, 2025)

We join them in demanding the release of David Huerta, and further demand that all charges be dropped and the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a union worker “mistakenly” shipped by Trump to a U.S. run prison in El Salvador, a prison created to escape U.S. legal protections for incarcerated people and other aspects of U.S. law. We demand the closure of that prison.

We call on cities and towns to follow the lead of Glendale CA, which voted to end its cooperation with ICE, in accordance with the California Values Act (SB 54) of 2017, which “ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community.”

We call for the immediate end to this anti-democratic state violence, for all elected officials to take clear positions on stopping these mobilizations of forces against the people in U.S. cities. We call on all sectors of the people’s movements to stand in unity with immigrants and demand that they be treated with humanity and kindness. We need to unite to keep all workers, including immigrants, safe from anti-worker, racist Trump initiatives. As we protest, the Communist Party USA calls on everyone to protest peacefully and keep each other safe.

Image: CT protesters gather in solidarity with Los Angeles ICE raid protests by ctmirror.org (Free to Share and Use).