All posts tagged "La Times"

Dodger Stadium blocked masked ICE agents from entering its parking lot Thursday after Department of Homeland Security vehicles were spotted loitering outside the venue, according to the Los Angeles Times.

"It is unclear what operation the federal agents were carrying out or whether anyone in the area was arrested," the Times reported, adding, "The agents declined to say why they were at the stadium when asked by a Times reporter."

ICE agents have been spotted staking out Home Depots in attempts to arrest day laborers. Last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller reportedly ripped into agents for not arresting more undocumented migrants, asking, "Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?"...

The Department of Homeland Security refuted an article in Monday's Los Angeles Times that accused the agency of making sweeping arrests based on "racial profiling."

The article's headline read, "Fears of racing profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts 'roving patrols,' detains U.S. citizens."

It quoted an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California as saying, "We are seeing ICE come into our communities to do indiscriminate mass arrests of immigrants or people who appear to them to be immigrant, largely based on racial profiling."...

TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw, who came to prominence after being promoted by Oprah Winfrey, trashed the media's response to unrest in Los Angeles on his podcast, "The Real Story With Dr. Phil."

"Your eyes don't deceive you, but the media does," McGraw said over video of burning cars.

McGraw first took aim at CNN's Dana Bash, who "compares this madness to what happened in L.A. in 1992."...

That was fun! The last day, Katha and I talk about movies about child-bearing and how boring it is to cram women into such traditional roles.

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In a pure coincidence that is nonetheless pretty damn funny, the same day I put up a satirical bleg asking for the NY Times or some similar magazine to profile me, I got a request from the LA Times to do their week-long Dust Up column. It's one of those back-and-forth things, and the topic is feminism and politics. I was concerned they'd put me up against someone anti-feminist and I'd be spending all my time knitting my brows in irritation, but luckily, the other writer is Katha Pollitt. You can read the first day here.

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