Commentary: Sanctuary policies and activists aren't endangering lives during ICE raids ICE is

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Like with cigarettes, la migra should come with a warning label: Proximity to ICE could be hazardous for your health.From Los Angeles to Chicago, Portlandand New York, the evidence is ample enough that wherever Trump sends in the immigration agency, people get hurt.

And not just protesters and immigrants.That includes 13 police officers tear-gassed in Chicago earlier this month.

And, now, a U.S.marshal.

Which brings us to what happened in South L.A.on Tuesday.

Federal agents boxed in the Toyota Camry of local TikToker Carlitos Ricardo Parias — better known to his hundreds of thousands of followers as Richard LA.As Parias allegedly tried to rev his way out of the trap, an ICE agent opened fire.

One bullet hit the 44-year-old Mexican immigrant — and another ricocheted into the hand of a deputy U.S.marshal.Neither suffered life-threatening injuries, but it’s easy to imagine that things could have easily turned out worse.

Such is the chaos that Trump has caused by unleashing shock troops into U.S.cities.

California Authorities accused Carlitos Ricardo Parias of ramming his car into agents’ vehicles after they boxed him in.Video shows his car pinned as agents opened fire.Rather than take responsibility and apologize for an incident that could’ve easily been lethal, Team Trump went into their default spin mode of blaming everyone but themselves.Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that the shooting was “the consequences of conduct and rhetoric by sanctuary politicians and activists who urge illegal aliens to resist arrest.”Acting U.S.

Atty.Bill Essayli chimed in on social media soon after: “I urge California public officials to moderate their rhetoric toward federal law enforcement.

Encouraging resistance to federal agents can lead to deadly consequences.” Hours later, he called Times reporter James Queally “an absolut...