MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff defended illegal immigrants in Los Angeles protests while violent anti-ICE protests have continued throughout the city.
MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff described illegal immigrants as the « fabric » of Los Angeles as anti-ICE protests and riots entered their fourth day on Monday.
Soboroff spoke outside a Home Depot store in the city, which he described as one of the locations where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested several suspects during a raid.
He called the operation « unprecedented » and claimed on « Deadline: White House » that going after the undocumented community is what inspired the protests that devolved into violent riots over the weekend.
« The big picture is Los Angeles is a so-called majority-minority city in a majority-minority state », Soboroff said. « There are more people of color that live in Los Angeles than White people at this point. And many of those people are undocumented. By some counts, 10% of the population of L.A. County, one of the largest counties, the largest county by population in the United States, is undocumented, maybe as many as a million people.
