Total Havoc Breaks Loose as Trump Gets Desperate

0:00Ben Meiselas:Total havoc continues to break loose across the streets of the United States as Donald Trump's approval hits record lows. In the new YouGov poll, a majority of Americans say that Donald Trump is very weak. His approval is now negative 17 percent. And when you get to issues like crime, it's negative 5%, immigration, negative 9%, deportation, negative 11%, Doge, negative 18%, tariffs, negative 26%, inflation, negative 32%. People are infuriated by Donald Trump for basically everything that he's doing, but especially the ICE raids where they're disappearing human beings, throwing migrants and American citizens into concentration camps, into prisons where they're not heard from, from a long period of time, how we are treating people who visit the United States, locking them up where no one can hear from them for weeks and sometimes over 100 days.

1:04Ben Meiselas:I want to go through a lot of these recent stories with you so you can see the total havoc Trump has unleashed and why he is so deeply hated right now in the United States, except for a small group of the MAGA supporters. Here's a story right here from NBCLA. This one is absolutely devastating and made me cry. Here play this clip. A high school honor student from Westlake has been deported with her mother. They were sent back to Guatemala. Nori says she and her mother were detained at their immigration appointment. And I was scared because I didn't know where I was going to, they were going to take us.

1:40The family says Nori and her mother came to the U.S. 10 years ago as asylum seekers. Nori was just six years old. She spoke to us on the phone from Guatemala. I feel really sad because I was hoping to, like, graduate with my friends. And, like, being there with them, doing track and field. It's really, like, I didn't expect this. They were taken to Texas and then flown to Guatemala. I was like, can we make a call? Because none of our family doesn't know that we've been deported. And they were just like, no, your family already knew. They already know that you guys are deported.

2:23Ben Meiselas:Now, this next story I'm going to share with you. ICE detains mom and four U.S. citizen children just for hugging her sister on the Canada border, accidentally taking one step over the line between the U.S.-Canadian border to say goodbye triggered an unfounded accusation. The family has been locked up for over two weeks in windowless cells without access to legal counsel at the Peace Arch State Park in Washington State, long been considered a neutral site to visit on the U.S.-Canadian border. That's something that Kenya Jacqueline Merlos and her family have routinely done without incident, but not now under the Trump regime.

3:09Ben Meiselas:Congresswoman Maxine Dexter explains it is wholly unprecedented to detain any individual for weeks without cause, let alone for U.S. citizens. This is what authoritarianism looks like. Citizen children abducted. Community members disappeared. We cannot look away. We cannot back down. Here, watch this. Two weeks ago, Jackie Merlos, who's originally from Honduras, went up to Peace Arch Park with her mom and her children. It's a place they'd visited in the past, specifically to see her sister, who lives in Canada. But that trip took a turn, and they've been in custody ever since. A mother and her four U.S.

3:48citizen children from my district have been in an inhumane situation. Congresswoman Maxine Dexter calling out U.S. Customs and Border Protection outside a facility in the small city of Ferndale, Washington. She's been denied access to counsel. She's been denied access to her U.S. representative. If we accept that citizen children can be taken without cause, without due process, that mothers can be disappeared across state lines, we surrender our democracy. That mother, Jackie Merlose, her mom and four children traveled up to a well-known meeting spot on the U.S.-Canadian border, Peace Arch Park.

4:27For years, people have used it as kind of a neutral area where they can see friends and family. But that meeting with her sister ended in detention. Here's Mimi Letnich, close friend and guardian to Merlot's children. Her sister, who's a Canadian citizen, stepped over the line and she was saying goodbye. Following that fateful farewell on June 28th, Mimi says Border Patrol approached, arresting Merlot's detaining her and her kids. Days later, she says ICE picked up Merlo's husband, Carlos, in Portland, taking him to the facility in Tacoma. They're the kind of people you want in society. They're the people that, you know, you're lucky enough to have as friends.

5:14But a Customs and Border Protection spokesperson claims the mother was arrested for trying to smuggle, quote, illegal aliens into the U.S. In a statement, they added her children were present during the smuggling attempt, and she requested the children remain with her during detention. Len Saunders, an immigration attorney in Blaine, Washington, weighed in on the detention. Something doesn't add up here. It doesn't add up that a mom would bring her four American kids if she was trying to help smuggle aliens into this country. So I'd be interested to know what the final details are and if Homeland Security is being honest here and up front.

5:51Saunders also told me that this Ferndale facility, it isn't meant for lengthy stays. The family's attorney says, well, Jackie isn't a citizen. She's applied for a special kind of visa and those documents are pending. The attorney also says she's not been charged with any crime. David. As someone who's visited that park many times, safe to say there are still a lot of questions. Thanks, Alma.

6:13Ben Meiselas:I get some positive news to report as well that Norisco Barranco, the landscaper father of three U.S. Marines who was viciously beaten by Trump's Gestapo, was just released. I'll show you this right here.

6:44What's your sense of betrayal? A little bit, just because, I mean, we're willing to give everything for this country and then take our parents like this. I don't think it's fair. Yeah, and how does your father feel about all this, given that he has three sons? Yeah, no, I'm pretty sure he feels like he didn't know what happened at that time. And then right now, it's probably all over his head. What are the next steps for him? He has to follow up on his court and bond case. And then after that, we're just waiting for the pro in place to be in effect. Do you have any idea how long he'll be? No, I don't know.

7:18I do know that his next quarantine should be in August month. And is his plan still to try to seek citizenship? Yeah, yeah, for sure.

7:52Ben Meiselas:just to remind you what went down with narkees with narisco here play this clip all right developing in orange county shocking new video of ice agents detaining a gardener in tustin he's undocumented but his three sons are u.s marines and one of them is talking to Fox 11's Gina Silva.

8:13This video showing customs and border protection agents arresting and punching Orange County gardener Narciso Barranco is sparking public outrage. There was one guy that was actually telling me why you hit him so hard. You don't have to do that. IHOP manager Guillermo Villarreal says Narciso was working on the landscaping outside the restaurant in Tustin on Saturday morning when suddenly masked men approached. He says Narciso panicked and ran. They throw something on his eyes. Maze? Yes. And he started coming this way. That's when everybody got into him. And they put him down on the street. And one of the guys was beating him so hard.

8:54It was sad to see that.

8:56Ben Meiselas:Here's a photo of Narciso Barranco, a Mexican migrant with over 30 years in the U.S. and father of three American Marines who was released on bail from an immigration detention center in California after being detained for nearly a month. His arrest on June 21 sparked outrage due to the excessive use of force by immigration agents that you saw right there. When was the last time that you truly trusted seafood you brought home? Now, I used to question everything from nutrition and taste to sustainability until I discovered the Wild Alaskan Company. Wild Alaskan Company is the best way to get wild caught, perfectly portioned, nutrient dense seafood delivered directly to your door.

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10:53Ben Meiselas:I want to share this story with you as well. Trump has riled up his MAGA base so much against immigrants that one of his followers beheaded his own father. Justin Mohn was just sentenced to life in prison for beheading his own father, who he viewed as a traitor working for Biden. His manifesto says immigrants are fifth column armies invading the border in deliberate plots to undermine America, according to his written and video statements posted on social media. He accused the federal government, particularly the traitorous Biden regime, of declaring war on American citizens by allowing this infiltration.

11:35Ben Meiselas:His father, Michael Mohn, was a 68-year-old engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for over 20 years as a federal worker. In this video, Justin Mohn displays his father's severed head to the camera, declaring his father now in hell for eternity as a traitor in this country. The video that I'm showing you doesn't have that. So it's not, there's not going to, you're not going to see that. It's a local report on what went down and how sickening it is here. Just play this video of the local report. There's not, there's nothing violent in this here. Play this clip. He is now in hell for eternity as a traitor to his country.

12:08It is said that those who commit treason and betray others occupy the lowest pits of hell for all time. These were the chilling words uttered by Justin Maughan just moments after he fatally shot, then beheaded his own father and displayed the severed head on YouTube. Charges have been filed in a gruesome killing in Bucks County. A man was found decapitated in a home. Police took his son into custody 100 miles away, and they believe there was more to this murder than just a family grudge. On January 30th, 2024, residents of Pennsylvania were shocked to learn the details of this disturbing family tragedy.

12:43A year and a half later, the adult son behind the killing has taken the stand in a murder trial that prosecutors described as something straight out of a horror film. Here's everything we know about the brutal beheading and the crazed conspiracy theories of the accused. On the third day of his trial in suburban Bucks County, 33-year-old Justin D. Maughan coldly told the court how he fatally shot his dad, Michael Maughan, age 68, in the head during a quote, citizen's arrest. Justin was living at home with his parents in Levittown while he was looking for a job and apparently becoming radicalized.

13:20I unfortunately had to use deadly force, he said in his testimony, which eerily echoed what he told Philadelphia's NBC 10 in September of last year. Well, I wasn't expecting this. I had a speech ready, but I don't have that speech on me. A lot of other people around America believe that the federal government has betrayed America. They're destroying the country and we have to do something to take our country back. What does killing your father have to do with that? Well, he was a federal employee and betrayed me. I was trying to perform a citizen's arrest. He resisted that citizen's arrest. It's lawful to use deadly force in that event.

13:53Justin testified that his dad had threatened him and tried to take away the nine millimeter handgun that he purchased the day before. He said he believed his father was trying to stop him from becoming a charismatic political leader like President Donald Trump. Justin painted his political beliefs as different from his parents, whom he described as being on the far left. He also explained that his dad was a martial arts expert with two black belts. Michael Mann was a respected civil engineer who spent 20 years with the Army Corps of Engineers. But in his seemingly emotionalist two-hour testimony, Justin said, I would object to calling it a murder and claim that killing his dad was his Plan B and that he knew his YouTube video would go viral.

14:37His sick video rant indeed spread like wildfire. In the nearly 15 minute speech, Justin said he needed to kill his dad to inspire others to join his movement to overthrow the government. His tirades spanned everything from immigration and the border to the war in Ukraine. True crime aficionados, including popular YouTuber Ray William Johnson have since poured over the grisly details. In that video, he holds up his dad's head to the camera to show everyone. And I promise you, whatever you're imagining this scene is, it's worse.

15:11Ben Meiselas:All right. Now, if you want to hear the type of rhetoric, though, that is being used yesterday, for example, and always, this is what Donald Trump's top aide, Stephen Miller, said yesterday. Here, play this clip. The rhetoric from Governor Newsom, the rhetoric from Karen Bass, the rhetoric from Democrat leaders in Washington is directly encouraging and incentivizing murderous migrant mobs to attack ICE officers. When they describe ICE officers, these heroes, as some kind of fascist force, some kind of a Gestapo force, they are using the language that is meant to justify violence. ICE officers are literally in real time liberating American communities.

15:52once peaceful, once idyllic American communities from an invasion force. I cannot imagine a nobler, a more righteous activity for any American to do than to go into these communities, face off against hostile mobs, and literally free them from the forces of destruction and violence.

16:13Ben Meiselas:Now here's the ICE raid that just took place in Van Nuys. Let's play it. Don't touch me again. Just stay there. Don't touch me. You touch me first, motherfucker. Leave alone. What are you doing? Stay back. What are you doing? This man did nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong. Film all this shit. Please? Yeah, but it's being filmed. Everything's being filmed. You don't mean, motherfucker. Don't fuck you up and down. Leave alone. You're not doing nothing. Why are you on top of him? Why are you on top of him like that? What the fuck? Sir, he is impeding like an investigation. You were trying to run him over with a vehicle.

16:44There's no need for him to get in my face. There's no need for you to run over him with a fucking car.

16:55I got it all. I got you. Why the fuck are you doing that? This man was standing in a fucking line. I'm fucking... Help! Help! Help! If you can get this to work. You're fucking insane. You're insane. You're tearing up part of the... Help. Help. Help. Help.

17:36Ben Meiselas:My friend Alex Michelson over at Fox 11 LA just reported how farm workers are demanding an end to ICE raids after ICE went in there in Ventura County, in Santa Barbara County, in Fresno County, in Riverside County, in Los Angeles County, attacking the farm workers, killing one farm worker in their Gestapo-like raids. Here, play this clip. Some of the farm workers we're talking to who are calling for a strike, by the way, are saying that they have continued. So let me go to these images that I actually was able to get from the organization Union del Barrio. They are looking into these photos, and they show federal agents supposedly today in Montebello.

18:18They are gathering, and then they're detaining at least two people. One of those, I was able to check out. That person may have had a warrant, an old, old warrant. The other one, we don't know yet why they were stopped. So it does seem that things are slowing down because I didn't get 30 of these every Monday like I do. But some kind of action continues by the federal authorities. You know, and here's what the immigrants are saying. It has to stop. Listen. When you pick up a strawberry, a tomato or grapes, you're holding it in your hands from the sweat, the struggle and story of a farm worker.

18:54More than likely an undocumented, exploited farm worker. Farm workers gathering at Placita Oliveira to announce a national labor strike, demanding a path to citizenship and... An end to the raids that are dehumanizing and terrorizing our communities and workplaces. Raids a federal judge in L.A. halted, saying agents cannot indiscriminately arrest people without reasonable suspicion they are in the country illegally. What that means is they cannot stop people solely on these factors, on apparent race or ethnicity, on speaking Spanish or English with an accent, on presence in a particular location or on work that the person does.

19:38The federal government has filed an appeal. Border czar Tom Homan putting it this way on Fox News last week. ICE officers and Border Patrol, they don't need probable calls to walk up somebody briefly detained them and question them. They just need to tell you the circumstances. Reasonable suspicion is what his agents apply, he says. Based on their location, their occupation, their physical appearance, their actions. To which these farm workers react with anger.

20:09We are being detained because of our skin color, she insists.

20:17We worked through COVID, he says, and were called essential then, but now we're criminals? Go after the real criminals, she says, echoing those here. We are not criminals. We are the backbone of our food system. And Alex, you asked at five o 'clock about the agricultural programs here in the U.S. There is a legal program. It's called the H-2A program. and it does allow for people who are going to work in the fields and they have an employer to work here, but it's only for some months. And I'll tell you, it has exploded the need because it went from 48 ,000 positions. 2005, two years ago, it was almost 400 ,000 positions, agricultural workers that according to their employers were badly needed in this country.

21:08Now, none of those have a path to citizenship. They're just here for a few months at a time. But it does exist. And most of the organizations that deal with this say they have to be expanded and improved. That strike, by the way, Wednesday through Friday. I'm Cristina Gonzalez in downtown Los Angeles.

21:25Ben Meiselas:Now, one thing to note as well is that the Trump regime is now ending the deployment of 2000 National Guard troops who were deployed to Los Angeles after immigration raid. Half the number deployed last month now remain in the area. So 4 ,000 were deployed, 2 ,000 are going home. But just the fact that I'm even talking about the National Guard was deployed in Los Angeles. And by the way, Los Angeles pays more in federal taxes to the federal government than all but four states as a county and you're sending the National Guard to attack Los Angeles. Here's Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Here's what she had to say.

22:09Ben Meiselas:Let's play it. We had a big victory in Los Angeles today, and this is an example of what happens when Angelinos stick together. So the Trump administration, they got the message. They are withdrawing 50 percent of the National Guard troops who should have never been sent here in the first place. But now that they're leaving, I certainly hope that they are going home and not that they're being deployed to another city. We need to stop this. And if they do go to another city, stay strong. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to six million subscribers. Thank you for watching.