Lets Be Real About the Los Angeles Rioters—They’re Not All ILLEGAL Immigrants

Many Are Legal Immigrants Or Born In America

By Mike Adams

Americans of every stripe and creed are outraged by the riots occurring in Los Angeles. Mexicans and other Hispanics are waving Mexican and Honduran flags some of which have “Viva Mexico” printed on them. This is by definition an ethnic conflict between Mexican and other Hispanics who do not identify as American and the rest of the American state and its institutions which they do not identify with and view as opposition to their self-described ethnic interests.

Conservative media personalities have done a decent job sharing the videos and highlighting the madness but they are refusing to talk about these rioters and protesters honestly. The conservative media continually calls these rioters illegal immigrants as a whole, as if the thousands upon thousands are composed solely of that demographic. Even one of my favorite modern conservative personalities, Victor Davis Hanson, author of the prophetic 2003 Mexifornia: A State Of Becoming, has pushed this idea that these are simply illegal immigrants protesting against the potential of their removal from the country.

It’s sad that I have to be the one to tell all of these conservative media personalities what they must already know:

1. These people are mostly American citizens whether naturalized or native-born to immigrant parents from Latin America.

2. Their American citizenship does not matter to them, only their ethnic loyalty that stands against the media/academia manufactured monolith of a “racist American society” which largely does not exist.

3. Being born in America clearly did not make them into Americans. There is no Magic Dirt and the Constitution is not a list of magical spells that instill American-ness into everyone born within its jurisdiction.

I can hear the mainstream conservatives clamoring in response now and so I will get ahead of them. Yes, there are wonderful patriotic Hispanic Americans who care deeply about their cities, states, and this country. Many of them have taken to X to express their anger with the rioters.

I have watched many of their videos first hand and find myself nodding in agreement with virtually everything they have to say. In fact, these Hispanic Americans taking to X in civilized anger are willing 9 of 10 times to say that these people are probably American citizens but that it doesn’t matter because they are clearly demonstrating their loyalty to a foreign country or loyalty to their ethnic group over the United States. A foreign country they would never want to live in because it would mean being more than a block away from a marijuana shop or a Sephora store.

Ultimately this should not come as a surprise to anyone paying attention to the failure of the “melting pot’’ we’ve all been raised to believe American has always been.

Only 7% of Hispanic immigrants and 43% of second-generation Hispanic immigrants are “English dominant”. 69% of second-generation Hispanic immigrants feel very/somewhat connected to their country of origin. Most strikingly only 36% of second-generation Hispanic immigrants identify most often as American while another 36% primarily identify with their country of origin and 24% identify as Hispanic/Latino. This figure is only marginally higher than a 2013 PEW survey showing that 30% of second-generation immigrant Hispanics identified as American.

Clearly the “melting pot” concept is unworkable at worst and failing to materialize at best.

It is not until you get to third-generation Hispanics, who are 28% of the total Hispanic population or about 17 million people, that you get a slim majority of 56% of the generation that identifies as American.

To put it another way: of the 62 million Hispanics who live in the United States only 19 million of them identify primarily as Americans. This is a massive problem.

No country can operate as a cohesive political unit with such massive populations of people with foreign loyalties they are readily willing to express and even commit violence in the name of. Loyalties which are reciprocal according to the Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum.

We need to take a page out of the British law book and pass laws that allow for the denaturalization of these protesters if they have or are eligible for dual citizenship. In the United Kingdom their Secretary of State, their term for a cabinet member and not analogous to our Secretary of State, can deprive a person with dual citizenship or eligibility for dual citizenship when “deprivation is conducive to the public good” or when someone is “seriously prejudicial to the vital interests of the United Kingdom”.[Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006] This ability to strip people of their British citizenship even applies to dual citizens who were born with British citizenship. We need this concept in American law.

I think it can be reasonably argued that rioters waving foreign flags, throwing rocks at cops, and burning down personal property while waving those previously mentioned foreign flags, chanting in foreign languages, and proclaiming loyalty to a foreign country are “seriously prejudicial” to America’s vital interests.

Having rioters with foreign loyalties in our country and burn our cities down every few years in race-based riots is serious to most Americans who love this country whether they be a member of the historic White majority or Hispanic and Asian Americans who live peacefully in these LA neighborhoods.

This country needs to have a serious and honest conversation about the masses of people here who do not identify as American and clearly hate us, our institutions, and our way of life. That conversation needs to include the possibility of denaturalizing and deporting these criminals and then incentivizing anyone else who so clearly hates it here to leave via voluntary remigration pathways. We need to ignore leftist caricatures of mass deportations based solely on skin color and have a serious conversation about who we want to live in this country and how we live side-by-side.

The best place to start is figuring out who identifies as American and enjoys our way of life. Then turning that broad coalition into a political movement to expel or incentivize the people who so clearly hate it here to leave.