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Why won't LA28 stand up for LA's immigrants?
"An Olympics and Paralympics security plan that gives control to a federal administration that is already attacking immigrants in our city and across the nation puts our entire community at risk"
The art of the deal
"LA28’s opaque finances and vague reassurances are not enough to protect the city from fiscal disaster"
Empty stadiums, travel bans, and ICE raids
"If you want to come to the U.S. games, just know that they may harass you depending where you're from and depending on what you look like"
Travel advisory
Sean Duffy's feigned hand-wringing on behalf of one federal department about the inconvenience of rerouting a few buses is simply revolting as another federal department is literally kidnapping people from bus stops
They were always Trump's games
In case anyone forgot this fact, LA28 representatives repeatedly reminded everyone about their close working relationship with the president-elect
"Everyone was excited because the Olympics were coming. Now everyone is worried"
On Election Day, everything changed