Rob Schneider, Mark Ruffalo speak out against ICE raids in Los Angeles
Rob Schneider and Mark Ruffalo (right). Images: Instagram/@iamrobschneider, @markruffalo
Hollywood stars Rob Schneider and Mark Ruffalo are among the celebrities who voiced their opinions on the civil protests happening in California following federal immigration raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ordered by President Donald Trump.
Schneider, whose maternal grandmother was a Filipina, shared a video of the riots on X alongside the caption: “Mostly Peaceful Democrats…” He also shared a report of Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum condemning the L.A. immigration protests.
Image: Instagram/@RobSchneider
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Ruffalo, on the other hand, posted a lengthy message on Instagram to speak out against the injustice and violence amid the heightened protests, where he emphasized that people on top are “going after the poor and other working-class people.”
“You want to get rid of the people who are picking your food, without a care in the world for who is poisoning your bodies with chemicals that aren’t meant to ever be in nature. You want to drive out those who make your life easier but do not question those who dull your minds with lies and disinformation meant to confuse you and destroy brotherly and sisterly love for us here? You are pointing your guns in the wrong direction,” began the actor’s statement.
“The Hulk” star then criticized the president, whom he said “prioritizes maintaining all his wealth” while his constituents suffer on the other end.
“The billionaire up at the top is stealing you blind and you are worried about the poorest of the poor ruining your life? The president is a grifter, his family is raking it in with their bitcoin con, the dopey tech billionaire takes your tax money to make himself richer than any person in the history of mankind with his pipe dream of living on mars, while you starve, while you worry, while he gleefully lets people with AIDS, people suffering famine, or persecution or political danger silently die,” continued the statement.
Ruffalo emphasized that despite the “differences in terms of color or pronoun, people love, and feel the same and are tormented by the same worries” amid the happenings.
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Jennifer Garner, Rachel Zegler, and Halle Berry are among the well-known personalities who pressed “like” and left heart comments on Ruffalo’s post.
Meanwhile, in a now-inspired Instagram Story, Eva Longoria also reposted a video of a woman being separated from her child due to the raids. Singer Gracie Abrams, on the other hand, shared an art card on her Instagram story, urging that the deportations be stopped.
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On June 6, ICE officers, the group that helps enforce U.S. immigration laws, conducted raids in different parts of LA to arrest people suspected of being in the country illegally.
After the protests escalated from “peaceful” to clashes, Trump responded by sending over 2,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines into LA without informing California’s governor, Gavin Newsom.
Newsom opposed the raids and the extra troops, saying they are “cruel, chaotic, and inflammatory.” He called the president’s action “unconstitutional” and stated that California would sue over it, arguing that the federal government was overstepping the state’s authority. /edv
