This coming Monday marks the 10^th anniversary of President Donald Trump’s famous ride down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, announcing his bid for the 2016 Republican nomination. Few people at the time realized what a pivotal moment in American history they were witnessing. Trump’s free-wheeling speech in the lobby was met with jeers and incredulous eye-rolls—including from most of the conservative establishment. The most memorable line from Trump’s remarks was about immigration from Mexico: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best …They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crimes, they’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” 

From that moment on, it was war between Trump and the globalist establishment.  

The remarks led to NBC dropping Trump from his reality series, The Apprentice, and for the corporate media it defined his political identity as a hardline nationalist or, as they would have it, a “fascist.” None of that was surprising. What was remarkable about Trump’s remarks, however, was his suggestion it was possible for Americans to reject mass immigration.  

In other words, Trump made a clean break from the decades of Republican accommodation to the immigration invasion that remade the face of our nation. In particular, his commentary on Third World immigration, though dismissed as nothing but crude dog whistles, was prescient—as the migrant riots in Los Angeles are demonstrating in real time. 

What we are witnessing is, for the most part, a violent ethnic backlash in response to lawful immigration operations. The thugs waving Mexican flags (and those of other foreign nations), burning cars, and throwing concrete blocks are the same people who were held up as “natural conservatives” by the feckless GOP before Trump.  

Trump, however, has never allowed a fear of racial confrontation to stop him from telling the truth. While many on the right still prefer to blame racial unrest on white leftists, Trump is perfectly blunt about why he deployed the National Guard: to liberate a city “occupied” by hostile foreigners. 

That is easier said than done. Los Angeles is the prototype of what’s in store for the rest of the country if the Great Replacement continues unchallenged: it is predominantly a Mexican city now, divided between an ultra-rich upper class and a largely foreign-born working-class. Middle-class whites (as well as Americans of other races) have been squeezed out. The riots that are convulsing the downtown and Hispanic-majority areas are a direct response to the Trump administration’s attempt to enforce the law through Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which began conducting raids last Friday as part of a cartel money-laundering investigation.  

In California, there is a close nexus between labor politics, the permanent Democrats, and the immigrant lobby. Unions, specifically California’s Service Employees International Union (SEIU), have played a notable role in these protests. Their president, David Huerta, has been charged for blocking an ICE vehicle. His detention inside a federal building downtown became a rallying cry to the rioters, who have targeted the federal complex and even shut down a neighboring highway.  

California is a one-party state, largely because of the partisan allegiances of its immigrant population, the largest anywhere in the nation. The old Democratic Party allegiance to the foreigner is very much intact, despite some post-election posturing. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass cut to the chase by demanding an end to the ICE raids. In other words, the federal government is to blame, not the rioters, and the government must cede control of the most populous state in the Union to violent foreigners and their elected sympathizers.  

A decade since his Trump Tower speech, Trump’s immigration policies have won mainstream acceptance, thanks in no small part to the chaotic Biden-era influx and Republicans finally finding the courage to fight back. But Trump’s mass deportation agenda is a work in progress. His predecessors have left him with an enormous mess to eradicate.  

Decades of political and cultural compromises, such as the failure to enforce basic laws against illegal entry and employment, bilingualism, and other concessions to foreigners wishing to make America more like the places they left behind have created a fifth column within our own country. It was never going to be easy to convince the millions of people who have lived and worked here illegally for years paid no price for it to submit to our laws and go back home. So no one should be surprised when it gets messy.  

Democrats share a common goal with the rioters, which is the permanent takeover of the United States, and they intend to use mass immigration as their battering ram. They want to intimidate the American public, which now supports Trump’s deportation agenda, into believing that reclaiming their country will be so unpleasant that it is not worth the trouble. The sentiment they are currently floating is that “people voted for immigration enforcement, but not like this.”  

Americans should remember that if Mexican rioters are going to dictate how, when, and in what manner ICE can do its job, immigration enforcement is already a dead letter. The American people voted for mass deportations, and mass deportations we must have, or we will not have a country for much longer.