Riots against the Trump administration’s immigration raids in Southern California are rocking Los Angeles this weekend and California Republicans are pinning blame for the violence on Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass. 

«Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have a real habit of letting Los Angeles burn,» Republican California Rep. Darell Issa posted to X on Saturday evening. 

«If only Karen Bass fought against the Los Angeles fires like she fights for illegal aliens,» Issa added in another post, referring to the Palisades fire that tore through Southern California in January. 

Riots broke out in Los Angeles on Friday and Saturday as immigration officials carried out raids to remove individuals illegally residing in the left-wing city, which dubbed itself a «sanctuary» for illegal immigrants in November before President Donald Trump was sworn back into the Oval Office. 

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The raids began on Friday, with Bass issuing a statement supporting illegal immigrants in the city and bucking the Trump administration’s deportation efforts. 

«This morning, we received reports of federal immigration enforcement actions in multiple locations in Los Angeles,» Bass said in a statement on Friday. 

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LA Mayor Karen Bass was blasted on social media for her reaction to ICE raids in her city. (Getty/AP)

«As Mayor of a proud city of immigrants, who contribute to our city in so many ways, I am deeply angered by what has taken place. These tactics sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city. My Office is in close coordination with immigrant rights community organizations. We will not stand for this.»

Newsom issued a similar statement on Friday, calling the immigration raids «chaotic and reckless.»

Gov. Gavin Newsom (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

«Continued chaotic federal sweeps, across California, to meet an arbitrary arrest quota are as reckless as they are cruel. Donald Trump’s chaos is eroding trust, tearing families apart, and undermining the workers and industries that power America’s economy,» Newsom’s statement read. 

Newsom’s press office doubled down in support of shielding illegal immigrants from deportation in a response X post to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Saturday. 

«In recent days, violent mobs have attacked ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California. These operations are essential to halting and reversing the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States. In the wake of this violence, California’s feckless Democrat leaders have completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens,» Leavitt posted to X. 

Newsom’s office responded: «These are anything but basic. Your indiscriminate sweeps are terrifying entire communities and detaining hardworking, tax-paying Californians. It’s cruel escalation and must end.»

Other Democrats in the state have gone even further in their defense of illegal immigrants amid the raids, with Democratic Rep. Norma Torres posting to TikTok on Saturday telling ICE officials to «get the f— out of L.A. so that order can be restored.»

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The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) declared unlawful assembly and issued a city-wide tactical alert on Friday evening as rioters attacked law enforcement officers, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on Saturday.

Smoke rises from a burning car on Atlantic Boulevard in the Los Angeles County city of Paramount, California, June 7, 2025. (Reuters/Barbara Davidson)

«Last night, over 1,000 rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building and assaulted ICE law enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and taxpayer-funded property,» read a statement from DHS. «Our ICE enforcement officers are facing a 413% increase in assaults against them. Disturbingly, in recent days, ICE officers’ family members have been dox[x]ed and targeted as well.»

As chaos broke out on the streets of LA, federal officials have pinned blame for the violence on Democratic elected officials who have «villainized and demonized» ICE law enforcement, Fox Digital previously reported. 

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«The violent targeting of law enforcement in Los Angeles by lawless rioters is despicable and Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom must call for it to end,» DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, for example, wrote in a statement. «The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line to protect and defend the lives of American citizens.… From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi gestapo to glorifying rioters, the violent rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is beyond the pale. This violence against ICE must end.» 

California Republicans and conservatives have also directed their ire at Democratic leaders for the violence, Fox Digital found. 

Police kick tear gas back to the crowd as people block off the street and set a fire during protests against ICE and immigration raids on Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Paramount, California. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

«Gavin Newsom is unqualified for a plethora of reasons, the least of which is his support of illegal alien insurrectionists. He is an all purpose, all around loser,» Hollywood actor and California resident James Woods posted to X.

Woods additionally described Bass as a «Communist» and Newsom as «Grease» in other posts asking to describe the California Democrats in one word. 

«After four years of the Biden administration refusing to enforce our immigration laws, Americans voted for President Trump, who promised to enforce the law and secure the border. Our federal agencies, including ICE, have every right to enforce federal laws, even in sanctuary states,» California Republican Rep. Ken Calvert posted to X. 

«This is on you, Governor. It is a shame that California openly defies federal law and sides with illegal aliens, including hardened criminals, against its own citizens,» Harmeet Dhillon, former vice chair of the California Republican Party and current assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, posted to X. 

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«Gavin Newsom seems to think that California can not only defy federal immigration law, but now federal tax law. The doctrine of nullification died with the Confederacy. What’s next: firing on Fort Ord?» Republican California Rep. Tom McClintock posted to X, referring to Newsom floating withholding federal taxes in response to reports of the Trump administration cutting funding to the state. 

Libs of TikTok, a popular conservative X account founded by an LA native, posted a series of messages pinning blame on local Democrats and providing updates on the violence. 

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and California native, responded to Bass on X after she defended illegal immigrants: «You have no say in this at all. Federal law is supreme and federal law will be enforced.»

When asked about California Republicans’ comments and the riots overall on Sunday morning, Newsom’s communications director Izzy Gardon told Fox Digital: «LA riots? Have these geniuses ever seen what happens when the Eagles win a playoff game?»

Videos circulated on social media Friday night and Saturday showing people looting LA shops and setting fires, as well as lobbing rocks and other items at immigration officials. U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael W. Banks shared a photo of a Border Patrol agent’s bloody hand that was injured by a rock flying through the windshield.

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Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Saturday to deploy 2,000 National Guardsmen to Paramount, California, to help quell the violence, and has also slammed the local leaders for the chaos. 

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

«If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!» Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday evening. 

ICE acting Director Todd Lyons described what took place in Los Angeles on Friday as «appalling.»

«As rioters attacked federal ICE and law enforcement officers on the LA streets, Mayor Bass took the side of chaos and lawlessness over law enforcement,» Lyons wrote in a statement on Saturday. «These violent rioters will be held accountable if they harm federal officers, and make no mistake, ICE will continue to enforce our nation’s immigration laws and arrest criminal illegal aliens.»

People block off the street and set a fire during protests against ICE and immigration raids on Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Paramount, California. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

FBI Director Kash Patel vowed that any individual found attacking an immigration official will face jail. 

«If you assault a law enforcement officer, you’re going to jail – period,» Patel said on Saturday, Fox Digital previously reported. 

«It doesn’t matter where you came from, how you got here, or what cause you claim to represent,» Patel added in comment to Fox News Digital on Saturday. «If local jurisdictions won’t stand behind the men and women who wear the badge, the FBI will.»

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Fox News Digital’s Alexandra Koch and Landon Mion contributed to this report. 

El régimen de Irán lanzó una amenaza directa a los países europeos y a Estados Unidos en vísperas de una nueva reunión del Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA), prevista para este lunes en Viena. El portavoz de la Organización de Energía Atómica iraní, Behrouz Kamalvandi, advirtió el domingo que Teherán reducirá su cooperación con el organismo de control nuclear de la ONU si se aprueba una resolución que lo acuse de incumplimientos en su programa nuclear.

“Ciertamente, el OIEA no debe esperar que la República Islámica de Irán continúe su amplia y amistosa cooperación”, declaró Kamalvandi en la televisión estatal.

La amenaza iraní se produce tras la publicación, el 31 de mayo, de un informe del OIEA que reaviva las sospechas sobre la dimensión militar del programa nuclear iraní. Un análisis del think tank estadounidense Institute for Science and International Security sostiene que Irán realizó y ocultó varias pruebas de implosión en 2003, paso clave en el desarrollo de un arma nuclear.

Según el instituto, estas pruebas en Marivan utilizaron sistemas hemisféricos de implosión a escala real, con explosivos capaces de generar una onda de choque esférica hacia el interior, que comprime un núcleo explosivo simulado de uranio natural o empobrecido, en lugar del altamente enriquecido. Estas “pruebas frías” serían indicativas de un plan avanzado para construir una bomba.

Además, el informe relaciona actividades en cuatro instalaciones clave —Marivan, Lavisan-Shian, Varamin y Turquz-Abad— con la desaparición de material nuclear cuya localización sigue sin esclarecerse. Pese a estas revelaciones, Teherán insiste en que su programa tiene fines exclusivamente pacíficos, aunque ya ha logrado enriquecer uranio hasta el 60%, un nivel sin justificación civil y cerca del 90% requerido para armamento nuclear.

Estados Unidos, junto con el grupo E3 (Francia, Alemania y Reino Unido), ha anunciado la presentación de un borrador de resolución que acusa formalmente a Irán de violar sus obligaciones legales como Estado miembro del OIEA. Aunque la resolución no remitirá de inmediato el caso al Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, como ocurrió en 2006, representa un cambio significativo en el tono y contenido de las acciones diplomáticas.

Una fuente diplomática citada por la agencia EFE calificó el documento como un “paso grave”, pero aseguró que “no se está cerrando la puerta a la diplomacia”. El proyecto otorga a Irán un margen para responder a las demandas pendientes del organismo, bajo la advertencia de una posible sesión extraordinaria del OIEA durante el verano si no hay avances.

Desde Irán, la respuesta no se hizo esperar. El ministro de Exteriores, Abbas Araqchi, emitió un mensaje en la red social X calificando la maniobra occidental como “otro grave error estratégico”. Comparó la actual ofensiva diplomática con la situación de 2005, cuando un movimiento similar del E3, según él, precipitó el inicio del enriquecimiento de uranio en Irán.

“La culpa recae exclusivamente en actores irresponsables que no se detienen ante nada para ganar relevancia”, escribió Araqchi. “¿De verdad no ha aprendido nada el E3 en las últimas dos décadas?”

El canciller también señaló que las acusaciones actuales se basan en un informe “débil y politizado”, y denunció que Europa está optando por “acciones malignas” en lugar de continuar con la cooperación.

Estas declaraciones se producen en medio de contactos diplomáticos renovados entre Irán y Estados Unidos, los primeros desde que Donald Trump se retirara del acuerdo nuclear en 2018. Aquel pacto, firmado en 2015 con las principales potencias mundiales, impuso límites estrictos al programa nuclear iraní a cambio del levantamiento de sanciones económicas. Tras su colapso, Irán comenzó a superar sistemáticamente las restricciones impuestas por el acuerdo.

Ahora, en pleno intento de negociación de un nuevo entendimiento, la aprobación de esta resolución podría entorpecer los esfuerzos diplomáticos y escalar la confrontación entre Teherán y Occidente.

(Con información de EFE y AFP)

As violent instances of antisemitism break out around the country this year, Fox News Digital took a look back at former President Joe Biden’s penchant for equating antisemitism and Islamophobia.

While the former president rightly condemned hate directed at Jews in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Israelis and the subsequent war in Gaza, Biden was almost always sure to draw an equivalency with anti-Muslim sentiment.

«In recent years, too much hate has given too much oxygen, fueling racism, the rise of antisemitism, Islamophobia right here in America,» Biden said, days after the war broke out, in a prime-time address from the White House. He added: «We can’t stand by and stand silent when this happens. We must, without equivocation, denounce antisemitism. We must also, without equivocation, denounce Islamophobia.»

Biden added during a Human Rights Campaign event in October 2023: «We have to reject hate in everything, because history has taught us again and again, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, they’re all connected. Hate toward one group left unanswered opens the door for more hate toward more groups, more often, regularly.»

Instances of antisemitism spiked to new highs last year, with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) finding in a new report that there were 9,354 antisemitic incidents in 2024, a 5% increase from 2023 and a staggering 926% increase since it began tracking such data in 1979.

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The war in Israel initially fanned the flames of antisemitism on campuses in the form of protests, menacing graffiti and students reporting that they felt as if it was «open season for Jews on our campuses.» The protests heightened to the point that Jewish students at some schools, including Columbia University, were warned to leave campus for their own safety. 

Agitators and student protesters flooded college campuses nationwide last school year to protest the war, which also included spiking instances of antisemitism and Jewish students publicly speaking out that they did not feel safe on some campuses. 

Protesters on Columbia University’s campus in New York City, for example, took over the school’s Hamilton Hall building, while schools such as UCLA, Harvard and Yale worked to clear spiraling student encampments where protesters demanded their elite schools completely divest from Israel. 

ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN AMERICA AS SOME INVOKE INTIFADA AND TARGET JEWS

Anti-Israel protesters link arms on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 6, 2024, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc)

As the protests hit a fever pitch last year, Biden again equated antisemitism with Islamophobia, even though it was clear that Jews were the group being targeted with harassment and violence.

«There should be no place on any campus, no place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students. There is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it’s antisemitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans,» Biden said from the White House in May 2024 as the protests on college campuses continued. 

«It’s simply wrong. There is no place for racism in America.»

Biden faced condemnation from conservatives and other critics for not simply denouncing antisemitism as Jews in the U.S. faced protests and instances of antisemitism. 

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«At a time when no college campus is on lockdown over Islamophobia, Joe Biden felt the need to spend as much time in his speech denouncing Islamophobia and ‘discrimination against Arab Americans’ as he did antisemitism. He is never able to just call out antisemitism,» radio host Erick Erickson commented on X in May 2024 as campus protests against Israel raged. 

Anti-Israel protesters rally outside of New York University’s campus in New York City on May 3, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

«Biden repeats his both-sideisms,» veteran James Hutton wrote last year of Biden’s previous comments. «Only the Jewish students are being violated. Biden knows that, but he really wants those votes in Michigan.»

«Biden is incapable of simply condemning antisemitism. Yet another equivocation. This administration is an embarrassment,» Kerry Rom, deputy communications director for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., wrote on X last year. 

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Family and friends gather outside Congregation Beth Torah after a funeral for Sarah Milgrim, a staffer at the Israeli Embassy who was killed outside a Washington Jewish museum, May 27, 2025, in Overland Park, Kansas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

This year, the Trump administration is cracking down on antisemitism and attacks on American Jews, which were underscored by a shooting that left a Jewish couple dead on the streets of Washington, D.C., last month outside of a Jewish museum, as well as a terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, last Sunday when an Egyptian national identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman allegedly hurled Molotov cocktails at people participating in a solidarity event for Israeli hostages still in Hamas captivity. 

Boulder firebomb attack and suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman (Storyful/KDVR)

Soliman’s charging documents stated that he «traveled to Boulder, Colorado, in his vehicle with the Molotov cocktails and threw two of the cocktails at individuals participating in a pro-Israel gathering. He also stated that he picked up gas at a gas station on the way to Boulder. He stated that he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead.»

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Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro – the Keystone State’s third Jewish governor – faced his own instance of antisemitism when a suspect set fire to the governor’s residence while he and his family were asleep on the first night of Passover.

President Donald Trump’s administration has taken steps to crack down on antisemitism in the U.S. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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President Donald Trump meanwhile, signed an executive order on «Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism» in January as his administration launched its crackdown on antisemitism. While federal law enforcement officials have arrested individuals allegedly tied to the widespread anti-Israel protests last year, the White House has threatened to end federal funding to universities that allow violent anti-Israel protests and is investigating immigration status of those accused of leading campus protests or carrying out antisemitic attacks.