Depending on what you mean by "foundational immigration law," it's not true that this system has existed over a millennia. For much of US history, migrants arrived by simply walking off of a boat. First US immigration law came in 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act.

It’s very difficult for me to put myself in the shoes of the journalists covering this situation on the ground without mentioning routinely to a national audience the relative calm surrounding most of LA. It simply should never be the case that a city is described as rioting when it is not.

Everything was fine until Trump decided to unleash violent raids w/o grounds in elementary schools, shopping areas, & peaceful public spaces. ICE then illegally blocked Members of Congress entry into the facilities they are disappearing people into, escalating the situation. Let’s start there.