TODAY: Vance To Showboat With Troops In Los Angeles

Politico reports:

Vice President JD Vance is set to travel to Los Angeles on Friday amid tensions in the city over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Vance will “tour a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center, a Federal Mobile Command Center, meet with leadership and Marines, and deliver brief remarks,” according to a readout of the vice president’s travel plans.

The trip comes after Los Angeles had been rocked with significant anti-ICE protests for which President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops and Marines to subdue, drawing condemnation from Democrats. The protests and unrest have since quieted — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass lifted a curfew earlier this week — but the troops have remained.

Read the full article. Meanwhile, ICE is claiming that they are never at Dodger Stadium yesterday.

False. We were never there. https://t.co/ZquYiW0miQ

— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) June 19, 2025