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by The Orange County Reporter

Editorial: Starve the Machine: Why Communities Must Cut Off ICE’s Lifelines

Hands Up – Don’t Shoot!

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to function in cities and towns throughout the United States with blatant contempt for constitutional principles, civil rights, and human dignity. The raids take place during the early hours of the morning. Parents disappear from school drop-offs. Workers are abducted from their workplaces—all without warrants, frequently without justification, and always with the unsettling effectiveness of an organization that believes it is accountable to no one.

However, the reality is that ICE operates on more than just power. It uses gas. Regarding coffee from the corner deli. The serene complicity of local business, parking places, and Wi-Fi are all available at rest stops. That is exactly where communities have the power and obligation to retaliate.

City Officials should be doing this as a Sanctuary City.

The concept is straightforward but has far-reaching consequences:  “If you don’t want ICE in your community, stop supporting it.”

Don’t sell gasoline to ICE vehicles that are marked or unlabeled. bar representatives for restaurants and restrooms. Tell local businesses: no contracts, no services, no silent support for a system that splits families apart and makes due process optional.

This isn’t vigilantism. It’s community self-defense.

Unlawful Actions by DHS and ICE!

Such conduct, according to critics, “impedes federal law enforcement.” However, an agency loses the presumption of legitimacy when it regularly disregards the Fourth Amendment by entering houses without a warrant and the Fifth Amendment by arresting individuals without charges or access to a lawyer. ICE functions in a gray area made possible by indifference rather than legislation. Local companies become accessories to constitutional breaches every time a gas station fills an ICE van with gasoline or a restaurant provides breakfast to officers on their way to a raid, albeit unknowingly.

Although they are a beginning, sanctuary city statements are frequently symbolic. A genuine sanctuary is about the business owner who says, “Not on my property,” not about municipal hall resolutions. It’s about the community that collectively draws a line, saying, “You may have a badge, but you don’t have our consent.”

ICE has become the Enemy of The State as they are Attacking US Senators!

Others will contend that refusing service is un-American. However, it is undeniably un-American to permit a federal agency to arm local infrastructure against vulnerable neighbors while simultaneously asserting impunity. The Constitution does not cease to exist when someone’s immigration status changes, and it most certainly does not cease to exist when someone wears a DHS patch.

Moral resistance has always relied on disrupting the machinery of injustice—**not just condemning it, but starving it**—through the thousands of daily acts of ordinary people withdrawing their cooperation. History shows that oppressive regimes fall as a result of this withdrawal of cooperation, not just through courts or Congress. This withdrawal of cooperation has taken many forms, including divestment campaigns against apartheid and boycotts during the Civil Rights Movement.

ICE is an Occupying Force to Oppress The People.

Therefore, to be clear, if ICE believes that it is above the Constitution, then communities are entitled to treat it as an occupying force, using complete non-cooperation rather than violence. No sustenance. No fuel. There are no restrooms. Not at all cozy. There isn’t a cover.

Make it logistically impossible for ICE to function in your city.

Sanctuary Cities, It’s time to start defending your residents,
YOUR COMMUNITY .

Make your city a genuine haven rather than just a “sanctuary” in name.

Because justice cannot be proclaimed. We are the ones who enforce it.

by The Orange County Reporter

Editorial: Federal Agencies and Private Militants Terrorize Paramount, California — Protester Run Over

Police State

Paramount, California — a working-class, predominantly immigrant city — is now the latest flashpoint in a terrifying pattern of militarized crackdowns and unchecked aggression by federal agencies and private operatives. Residents report a surge of operations involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), private contractors like Blackwater (now rebranded as Constellis), and even rogue bounty hunters acting outside of constitutional limits. These forces have descended upon the city with military-grade equipment, assault rifles, unmarked vehicles, and the blatant disregard for civil rights that has come to characterize such operations.

The most horrifying incident came during a peaceful protest earlier this week, when a protester was run over by a federal vehicle. Witnesses state that the victim — a young activist marching against ICE raids in the neighborhood — was deliberately targeted. The federal agents present refused to offer medical assistance and instead formed a perimeter to shield the vehicle and its driver from public accountability. The victim was later rushed to the hospital by fellow demonstrators. No arrests have been made. No apologies issued.

Peaceful Demonstrator was hit and killed by ICE Agents when ICE Agents ran him over with a Federal Vehicle.

What is happening in Paramount is not law enforcement. It is a campaign of fear. Residents speak of pre-dawn raids, helicopters circling above schools, families pulled from their homes without warrants, and masked operatives demanding identification with no legal basis. Community members are being surveilled, harassed, and detained — not for crimes, but for the crime of existing in a system that criminalizes immigrants, Black and Brown bodies, and anyone who dares to dissent.

The involvement of Blackwater-style contractors and bounty hunters — with their long track records of war crimes, human rights violations, and total lack of accountability — only amplifies the terror. These groups are not bound by the same protocols and oversight as public law enforcement, yet they are armed to the teeth and deployed as if the community were a battlefield.

Where is the oversight? Where are California’s state leaders, the county supervisors, the city officials? Their silence is complicity.

Paramount is not a war zone. It is a community of hard-working families, students, elders, and everyday people who deserve safety — not occupation. No federal badge or military patch gives anyone the right to terrorize civilians, run over protesters, or treat neighborhoods like enemy territory. If this happened abroad, the U.S. government would call it a human rights violation. But on American soil, under the guise of “law enforcement,” it is business as usual.

We must demand an independent investigation into these operations. We must demand the names of every agency, contractor, and officer involved. We must demand justice for the protester injured — and for every family living in fear.

This is not democracy. This is a dystopia.

The people of Paramount deserve better. The nation must pay attention.

by The Orange County Reporter

Editorial: America Under Siege — How President Donald Trump’s Racist Agenda Has Turned the Government Against Its Own People

Trump’s Racist Agenda

The United States is facing a constitutional crisis unlike anything seen in modern history. Under the current presidency of Donald Trump, an authoritarian and racist agenda has taken hold, turning government institutions and private interests into tools of persecution. This is not speculation. This is the lived experience of countless U.S. citizens and minorities who find themselves targeted, harassed, and violated by the very structures meant to protect them.

ICE agents, bounty hunters, ATF operatives, FBI surveillance teams, the U.S. military, and agents of the Department of Homeland Security are being unleashed on American soil—not to serve justice, but to silence dissent, terrorize communities of color, and enforce a white nationalist vision of the nation. And they are not acting alone.

State, county, and city governments—many of them aligned with Trump’s extremist agenda—are enablers in this campaign. From local police departments collaborating with federal raids, to state legislatures passing laws criminalizing protest, every level of government has been bent toward repression. Add to this the involvement of corporate profiteers like Halliburton—whose contracts enable mass surveillance, detention, and militarization—and we are no longer talking about rogue elements. We are talking about a full-fledged system of control.

This is not security. This is persecution.

Immigrant families are torn apart in pre-dawn raids. Black and Brown neighborhoods are over-policed, surveilled, and criminalized. Protesters are tear-gassed, beaten, and jailed for exercising their First Amendment rights. Entire communities live under a constant threat of state violence, and the Constitution’s promises of due process, equal protection, and freedom from unlawful search and seizure are trampled daily.

The current administration’s fingerprints are all over this. Trump has openly celebrated law enforcement brutality, labeled political opponents as enemies, and stoked racial division at every turn. His agenda is not hidden—it is shouted from podiums, etched into executive orders, and enforced by the barrel of a gun.

Militarized ATF

This is how democracy dies—not all at once, but under the slow crush of sanctioned injustice.

What we are witnessing is not simply a failure of policy. It is a deliberate effort to turn the United States into a police state that serves the interests of the few, at the expense of the many. It is the transformation of the federal government into a tool for racial dominance, using fear and violence to suppress resistance.

It is unconstitutional. It is immoral. And it must be stopped.

Unlawful Raids, Racist Agenda, Civil Rights Violations

We must name it for what it is: State-sponsored oppression.

Now is not the time for silence or neutrality. Now is the time to resist—legally, politically, and morally. We must demand accountability from every agency, every politician, and every corporation complicit in this violence. We must protect and elevate the voices of the targeted. And we must fight to restore the Constitution to its rightful place as a shield for the people—not a weapon for the powerful.

History is watching. Future generations will ask what we did when democracy was under attack from within. Let the answer be that we stood up.

— Editorial Board

by The Orange County Reporter

Editorial: The Trump Administration’s Racist Policies in America.

The US President

The Trump administration signaled a hazardous intensification of institutional racism and xenophobia in the United States. The Trump administration turned immigration enforcement into a weapon of fear and control, disproportionately targeting immigrant, brown, and Black communities through policies such as the “Muslim Ban,” the separation of families at the border, and the aggressive increase in ICE raids.

This period has been characterized by illegal ICE raids, which frequently involve breaches of fundamental rights protected by the U.S. Constitution, notably the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, and are frequently conducted without warrants or due process. These raids not only tear apart families, but also convey a terrifying signal that some groups of people, particularly Latinos, Muslims, and undocumented immigrants, are less deserving of respect or safety.

Illegal ICE Raids

Simultaneously, white supremacist language has been encouraged rather than denounced. In response to the Charlottesville march, Trump infamously said there were “very fine people on both sides,” and the administration refused to take a strong stance against violent hate groups, which revived formerly marginalized racist ideas.

All of this is completely at odds with the values that the Constitution professes to support. The Founders cautioned about tyranny, but under Trump, we see a government engaging in tyranny from within, using the machinery of state authority to infringe on the rights of the most vulnerable while protecting the powerful.

Orange County CA Lake Forrest Man Eric Walter Ramminger Arrested for hate crimes, racial slurs, Assault, death threats against a business owner.

The purpose of the Constitution is to be a living document—a protection for everyone, not a selective instrument used to support privilege while stifling dissent. Now more than ever, it is crucial to demand responsibility, defend human rights, and advocate for a real democracy where liberty and justice are assured for everyone, not just a select few.

by The Orange County Reporter

Editorial: El residente de Lake Forrest, Eric Walter Ramminger, fue arrestado por el OCSD por insultos raciales y declaraciones de amenazas de muerte.

Eric Walter Ramminger, 54, Alleged Racist Individual.

Eric Walter Ramminger, un hombre de 54 años de Lake Forest, California, fue detenido por el Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Orange tras un incidente que incluyó amenazas de muerte, insultos raciales y un ataque contra la dueña de un negocio y sus clientes. La llegada tardía de la policía al lugar se debió a las evaluaciones preliminares de las circunstancias y a la necesidad de garantizar la seguridad de los empleados ante las amenazas documentadas.

El arresto pone de relieve la creciente preocupación por la seguridad pública y el aumento de incidentes motivados por el odio en las comunidades vecinas. Testimonios de testigos presenciales indican que Ramminger comenzó a usar insultos raciales hacia otros antes de involucrarse en peleas físicas. Se informó que el dueño del negocio y algunos clientes sufrieron acoso e intimidación durante el incidente.

Racist Rants, Assault, and Death Threats.

Las autoridades policiales están contratando a Ramminger para investigaciones sobre diversos delitos, como lesiones, delitos de odio y amenazas. Se espera que próximamente se publique más información sobre las fechas de las audiencias y las posibles medidas legales.

Este suceso ha suscitado interrogantes sobre la gestión de las fuerzas del orden en situaciones peligrosas y la necesidad de una reacción rápida y eficaz ante actividades motivadas por el odio. Los líderes comunitarios abogan por la unidad y la alerta para condenar estos actos y garantizar un entorno seguro para todos los residentes.

by The Orange County Reporter

Editorial: Lake Forrest resident Eric Walter Ramminger was arrested by the OCSD for racial slurs and death threat declarations.

Eric Walter Ramminger, 54, Alleged Racist Individual.

Eric Walter Ramminger, a 54-year-old man from Lake Forest, California, was apprehended by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department after an event including death threats, racial epithets, and an attack on a business owner and her clients. Late police arrival at the scene resulted from the preliminary assessments of the circumstances and the need to ensure employee safety against documented threats.

The arrest highlights the increasing concerns over public safety and the escalating rate of hate-motivated events in neighboring communities. Eyewitness testimonies indicate that Ramminger began using racial epithets toward others prior to engaging in physical fights. The business owner and a few clients were reported to have been bullied and intimidated during the incident.

Racist Rants, Assault, and Death Threats.

For inquiries on a variety of crimes including battery, hate crimes, and criminal threats, law enforcement officials are retaining Ramminger. Further information on court dates and possible legal measures is expected to be released soon.

This event has sparked queries regarding law enforcement’s handling of hazardous events and the necessity of a fast and efficient reaction to hate-motivated activity. Community leaders are advocating unity and alertness to condemn these acts so as to ensure safe surroundings for all residents.