OPINION: Arrest quotas are no way to make America great again – The Nevada Independent

Rioting, looting and wanton destruction of property isn’t an effective method for adequately opposing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown — even if that crackdown seems almost deliberately cruel and arbitrary. 

However, it’s not unexpected. 

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Of course, none of this should be construed as justification for the recent looting, rioting and rampant vandalism occurring alongside the protests in Los Angeles and elsewhere — unrest that has, predictably, resulted in the Trump administration further testing the limits of executive authority. Federal troops have been deployed to the area without coordination from local authorities and Trump has even threatened California’s governor with possible arrest — actions that are unlikely to assuage the concerns of those protesting what they see as an authoritarian executive branch in the first place.