Los Angeles Is Under Siege — And We Will Not Go Quietly
MAGA Wants a Fight With LA? Be Careful What You Wish For
Los Angeles woke up Friday morning to the sound of fear.
Federal agents stormed our streets in the most aggressive anti-immigrant operation our city has seen in decades. No warnings. No warrants. Just mass chaos. Innocent men were ripped from their families. Children kissed their parents goodbye without knowing if they’d ever see them again. Decades-long residents—people who built our communities, paid taxes, raised kids, broke no laws but dared to survive—were disappeared from the heart of our city in a government-sanctioned campaign of racial terror.
This wasn’t a raid. This was a spectacle. A fascistic flex meant to break our spirit. And it won’t work.
I was born and raised in a small northern suburb of Los Angeles. I’ve spent my life watching this city rise, fall, burn, rebuild, and rise again. My Los Angeles has always been Brown and Black, Asian and queer, loud and beautiful and complicated and alive. And yes, it’s always had white people too—but now white supremacy has taken a turn so grotesque, so militarized, so cold-blooded, that even I—who grew up navigating sundown town echoes in the 90s—couldn’t have predicted this level of cruelty.
I went to school in a place that was 90% white. I had to learn early how to empathize with people who didn’t look like me, because no one on TV looked like me. There were no Brown kids in cartoons. No Latino leads in sitcoms. So I learned to care about characters who didn’t share my skin. It wasn’t hard. That’s what empathy is.
And now, 25 years later, as I see more Brown faces on TV, more stories like mine finally breaking into the culture, I’m stunned to realize something: white America still hasn’t learned how to empathize with us. They still can’t imagine a world where our pain matters. Where our existence is not up for debate. Where our families deserve the same dignity as theirs.
They see our skin before we even open our mouths, and that’s all they need. That’s all it takes for them to decide we are criminals. Invaders. Outsiders. Worthy of cages. Worthy of deportation. Worthy of being separated from our children and left to rot in some desert hellscape run by private prison contractors.
And they dare to call this a “law enforcement operation”?
No. This is MAGA-fueled white supremacy, fully weaponized and federally funded.
This is not about the border. This is not about crime. This is a moral crisis—one where white fear is being codified into policy. And it is time we name it for what it is: a state-run campaign of racial intimidation and terror.
Why aren’t these raids happening in red-state agricultural towns where undocumented workers keep billion-dollar MAGA industries running? Why is no one arresting the white men who hire undocumented labor and bankroll the very politicians ordering these raids?
Because this is not about justice. It’s about punishment.
It’s about punishing cities that defy white nationalist rule.
It’s about punishing people who dare to live without fear.
It’s about punishing pluralism, multiculturalism, and democracy itself.
And it’s only happening in places like Los Angeles because we’re strong enough to fight back.
But understand this: we are now entering a new era. One where the fascism no longer hides. One where military-grade violence is being normalized on city streets. One where we are one step away from civil war—not because we want it, but because the white supremacist movement needs it to hold onto power.
This is a test. For all of us. Especially for white Americans who still consider this country a place for everyone.
If you’re not racist, then stand up. Now.
If you’re not a white supremacist, prove it.
If you believe this country should belong to all of us—fight for it.
Because our city is not yours to raid. Our families are not yours to cage. Our communities will not be your battlefield.
We will not comply.
We will not be silent.
We will not let history repeat itself without a fight.
Los Angeles stands. Fierce. United. And unafraid.