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.
