Overview
- On June 10, Kardashian used her Instagram story to criticize ICE for removing nonviolent immigrants and called for a better enforcement approach to immigration law.
- ICE arrested at least 44 people in Los Angeles in raids that began June 6 under the Trump administration’s mass deportation initiative.
- Protests have continued in Los Angeles for six days, with demonstrators defying an emergency curfew imposed by city authorities.
- President Trump deployed thousands of National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles without Governor Newsom's approval, prompting a state lawsuit.
- Kardashian’s record in criminal justice reform and her past support for President Trump’s commutation of Alice Johnson’s sentence contextualize her current criticism of federal immigration enforcement.