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Like with cigarettes, la migra should come with a warning label: Proximity to ICE could be hazardous for your health.

From Los Angeles to Chicago, Portlandand New York, the evidence is ample enough that wherever Trump sends in the immigration agency, people get hurt. And not just protesters and immigrants.

That includes 13 police officers tear-gassed in Chicago earlier this month. And, now, a U.S. marshal.

Which brings us to what happened in South L.A. on Tuesday.

Federal agents boxed in the Toyota Camry of local TikToker Carlitos Ricardo Parias — better known to his hundreds of thousands of followers as Richard LA. As Parias allegedly tried to rev his way out of the trap, an ICE agent opened fire. One bullet hit the 44-year-old Mexican immigrant — and another ricocheted into the hand of a deputy U.S. marshal.

Neither suffered life-threatening injuries, but it’s easy to imagine that things could have easily turned out worse. Such is the chaos that Trump has caused by unleashing shock troops into U.S. cities.

Rather than take responsibility and apologize for an incident that could’ve easily been lethal, Team Trump went into their default spin mode of blaming everyone but themselves.

Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that the shooting was “the consequences of conduct and rhetoric by sanctuary politicians and activists who urge illegal aliens to resist arrest.”

Acting U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli chimed in on social media soon after: “I urge California public officials to moderate their rhetoric toward federal law enforcement. Encouraging resistance to federal agents can lead to deadly consequences.” Hours later, he called Times reporter James Queally “an absolute joke, not a journalist” because my colleague noted it’s standard practice by most American law enforcement agencies to not shoot at moving vehicles. One reason is that it increases the chance of so-called friendly fire.

Federal authorities accuse Parias of ramming his car into agents’ vehicles after they boxed him in. He is being charged with assault on a federal officer.

Time, and hopefully, evidence, will show what happened — and very important, what led to what happened.

The Trump administration keeps claiming that the public anger against its immigration actions is making the job more dangerous for la migra and their sister agencies. McLaughlin and her boss, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, keep saying there’s been a 1,000% increase in assaults on immigration agents this year like an incantation. Instead of offering concrete figures, they use the supposed stat as a shield against allegations ICE tactics are going too far and as a weapon to excuse the very brutality ICE claims it doesn’t practice.

Well, even if what they say is true, there’s only one side that’s making the job more dangerous for la migra and others during raids:

La migra.

It turns out that if you send in phalanxes of largely masked federal agents to bully and intimidate people in American cities, Americans tend not to take kindly to it.

Who knew?

Gregory Bovino, center, of U.S. Border Patrol, marches with federal agents to the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles on Aug. 14.

(Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times)

We’re about to enter the sixth month of Trump’s plan to rid the country of undocumented immigrants. Sycophants are bragging that he’s doing the job, but they’re not caring to look at the mess left in its wake that’s becoming more and more perilous for everyone involved. They insist that those who are executing and planning raids are professionals, but professionals don’t make constant pendejos out of themselves.

Professionals don’t bring squadrons to chase after tamale ladies or day laborers, or stage flashy raids of apartments and parks that accomplish little else than footage for propaganda videos. They don’t go into neighborhoods with intimidation on their mind and ready to rough up anyone who gets in their way.

A ProPublica investigation showed that ICE has detained at least 170 U.S. citizens this year, many whom offered proof that they were in this country legally as la migra cuffed them and hauled them off to detention centers.

Professionals don’t lie like there’s a bonus attached to it — but that’s what Trump’s deportation Leviathan keeps doing. In September, McLaughlin put out a news release arguing that the shooting death of 38-year-old Silverio Villegas González in Chicago by an ICE agent was justified because he was dragged a “significant distance” and suffered serious injuries. Yet body cam footage of local police who showed up to the scene captured the two ICE agents involved in the incident describing their injuries as “nothing major.”

Closer to home, a federal jury in Los Angeles last month acquitted an activist of striking a Border Patrol agent after federal public defender Cuauhtémoc Ortega screened footage that contradicted the government’s case and poked holes in the testimony of Border Patrol staff and supervisors. Last week, ICE agents detained Oxnard activist Leonardo Martinez after a collision between their Jeep and his truck. McLaughlin initially blamed the incident on an “agitator group … engaged in recording and verbal harassment,” but footage first published by L.A. Taco showed that la migra trailed Martinez and then crashed into him twice — not the other way around.

Professionals don’t host social media accounts that regularly spew memes that paint the picture of an American homeland where white makes right and everyone else must be eliminated, like the Department of Homeland Security does. A recent post featured medieval knights wearing chain mail and helmets and wielding longswords as they encircle the slogan “The Enemies are at the Gates” above ICE’s job listing website.

The Trump administration has normalized racism and has turned cruelty into a virtue — then its mouthpieces gasp in mock horror when people resist its officially sanctioned jackbootery.

This evil buffoonery comes straight from a president who reacted to the millions of Americans who protested this weekend at No Kings rallies by posting on social media an AI-generated video of him wearing a crown and dropping feces on his critics from a jet fighter. And yet McLaughlin, Noem and other Trump bobbleheads have the gall to question why politicians decry la migra while regular people follow and film them during raids when not shouting obscenities and taunts at them?

As I’ve written before, there’s never a nice way to conduct an immigration raid but there’s always a better way. Or at least a way that’s not dripping with malevolence.

Meanwhile, ICE is currently on a hiring spree thanks to Trump’s Bloated Beastly Bill and and has cut its training program from six months to 48 days, according to The Atlantic. It’s a desperate and potentially reckless recruitment drive.

And if you think rapidly piling more people into a clown car is going to produce less clown-like behavior by ICE on the streets of American cities, boy do I have news for you.

MONDAY’S RESULTS

CITY SECTION

Birmingham 12, Cleveland 6

Crenshaw 37, Hawkins 14

Crenshaw 19, Washington 0

Dorsey 20, View Park 0

Dorsey 15, Fremont 0

Eagle Rock 41, Bernstein 0

El Camino Real 38, Chatsworth 6

Franklin 20, Mendez 6

Fremont 18, View Park 2

GALA 55, Dymally 0

Hollywood 24, Annenberg 0

Huntington Park 22, L.A. Roosevelt 19

Huntington Park 27, South Gate 0

Jefferson 26, Angelou 0

Jefferson 48, Los Angeles 0

King/Drew 6, Carson 6

L.A. Hamilton 26, LACES 6

L.A. Roosevelt 25, South Gate 0

L.A. Wilson 40, Roybal 0

Narbonne 6, Wilmington Banning 0

Narbonne 34, Port of LA 0

San Pedro 27, Carson 0

Santee 33, Foshay 0

Santee 44, Stella 0

Stern 33, Animo De La Hoya 0

Venice 50, Fairfax 0

West Adams 12, Manual Arts 6

Wilmington Banning 52, Port of L.A.

WISH Academy 13, West Adams 12

SOUTHERN SECTION

Alhambra 18, Keppel 13

Anaheim 26, Savanna 0

Anaheim Canyon 34, Cypress 33

Bellflower 6, Mayfair 0

Bishop Amat 38, Ramona Convent 0

Brentwood 19, Windward 18

California 12, Whittier 6

Canyon Springs 12, Vista del Lago 6

Castaic 12, Valencia 7

Cerritos 32, Whitney 0

Compton 26, Millikan 18

Corona del Mar 14, Los Alamitos 0

Corona Santiago 20, Corona Centennial 7

Covina 26, Northview 12

Desert Hot Springs 38, Banning 20

Downey 46, Gahr 6

Eastvale Roosevelt 24, Riverside King 14

El Rancho 25, Santa Fe 19

Esperanza 24, Crean Lutheran 13

Etiwanda 19, Upland 13

Glendora 32, Claremont 7

Great Oak 16, Chaparral 8

Hart 36, Golden Valley 6

Huntington Beach 18, Newport Harbor 12

Knight 32, PACS 6

La Canada 40, Temple City 6

Lakewood St. Joseph 46, Bishop Montgomery 20

La Mirada 6, Norwalk 0

La Palma Kennedy 33, Tustin 6

La Serna 12, Villa Park 7

Linfield Christian 40, Aquinas 0

Loma Linda Academy 12, Norte Vista 6

Long Beach Wilson 13, Long Beach Cabrillo 6

Los Osos 47, St. Lucy’s 31

Montclair 6, Chino 0

Montebello 12, San Gabriel 2

Moreno Valley 25, Riverside North 19

Newport Beach Pacifica Christian 2, Fairmont Prep 0

Norco 30, Corona 6

Orange 25, Westminster La Quinta 0

Palm Springs 7, La Quinta 6

Patriot 39, La Sierra 12

Placentia Valencia 27, Segerstrom 0

Portola 50, Rosary 12

Ramona 31, Redlands Adventist Academy 25

Saddleback 18, Los Amigos 14

San Dimas 21, Alta Loma 12

San Marino 53, Rio Hondo Prep 0

Santa Ana Foothill 19, La Habra 13

Saugus 19, West Ranch 6

Schurr 20, Bell Gardens 0

Shadow Hills 31, Indio 0

South El Monte 39, Arroyo 6

St. Bernard 24, Cantwell-Sacred Heart 0

St. Mary’s Academy 20, St. Anthony 12

Sunny Hills 13, Brea Olinda 0

Temecula Prep 33, San Jacinto Valley Academy 0

Vasquez 15, Canyon Country Canyon 0

West Covina 33, Hacienda Heights Wilson 12

Western 18, Magnolia 0

Western Christian 25, Ontario Christian 0

Westminster 20, Laguna Hills 12

Westridge 27, Monrovia 18

Woodbridge 26, Laguna Beach 6

Yorba Linda 21, El Dorado 6

TUESDAY’S RESULTS

SOUTHERN SECTION

Aquinas 33, Indian Springs 7

Arroyo Valley 28, Colton 0

Beaumont 39, Redlands East Valley 6

Beckman 41, Capistrano Valley 0

Bishop Amat 32, Don Lugo 0

Bonita 20, Ayala 13

Brentwood 26, Providence 6

Cajon 26, Citrus Valley 7

Canyon Springs 27, Valley View 20

Cerritos 34, Glenn 0

Citrus Valley 26, Cajon 6

Eastside 13, Palmdale 0

Elsinore 22, Tahquitz 6

Fountain Valley 30, Lakewood 6

JSerra 18, Orange Lutheran 7

Kaiser 32, Jurupa Hills 8

Knight 39, Littlerock 12

La Canada 26, Westridge 20

Murrieta Valley 13, Temecula Prep 7

Newbury Park 57, Calabasas 0

Norte Vista 12, La Sierra 0

Oxnard 40, Oxnard Pacifica 6

Patriot 12, Ramona 0

Quartz Hill 7, Antelope Valley 6

Rancho Cucamonga 48, St. Lucy’s 6

Rialto 46, Rim of the World 6

Rio Mesa 39, Santa Barbara 12

San Dimas 13, South Hills 12

San Gorgonio 12, Summit 6

SEED LA 21, Shalhevet 6

Simi Valley 41, Oak Park 34

St. Mary’s Academy 28, Peninsula 0

Temecula Prep 19, Murrieta Mesa 0

Temescal Canyon 12, West Valley 6

Upland 27, Chino Hills 6

Ventura 33, Buena 0

Western Christian 39, Serrano 0

INTERSECTIONAL

Redondo Union 13, Narbonne 6

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TUESDAY’S RESULTS

SOUTHERN SECTION

Agoura 50, Simi Valley 7

Arroyo Valley 7, Vista del Lago 0

Azusa 19, Ontario 12

Beaumont 56, Rancho Mirage 0

Bonita 32, Chaffey 0

California Military Institute 7, Arlington 6

Claremont 38, Victor Valley 6

Compton 26, Nogales 0

Esperanza 42, Anaheim 7

Fountain Valley 15, Westminster La Quinta 12

Garden Grove 27, Savanna 12

Knight 53, Vasquez 0

Loara 12, Laguna Beach 7

Moreno Valley 27, Riverside Poly 24

Norte Vista 12, Fontana 0

Oak Park 19, Saugus 6

Oxnard 59, Hueneme 6

Palos Verdes 6, Santa Monica 0

Rancho Cucamonga 9, Citrus Valley 7

Ramona 36, San Gorgonio 6

Redlands East Valley 34, Corona 0

Santa Paula 26, Buena 0

Temescal Canyon 16, Elsinore 6

South Hills 31, Burbank Burroughs 6

Upland 21, Alta Loma 7

Villa Park 20, Rosary Academy 0

Vista del Lago 19, Arroyo Valley 13

MONDAY’S RESULTS

SOUTHERN SECTION
Anaheim Canyon 40, La Habra 6
Beckman 25, Woodbridge 6
Bellflower 39, Cerritos 8
Bishop Amat 32, Los Osos 32
Bolsa Grande 19, Sadleback 14
Canyon Springs 6, Norte Vista 0
Chaminade 32, Windward 0
Claremont 47, Garey 7
Cypress 15, La Palma Kennedy 0
Esperanza 32, Rosary Academy 12
Estancia 6, Los Amigos 0
Fullerton 13, California 7
Gahr 19, Ayala 0
Glendora 32, Northview 0
Hacienda Heights Wilson 12, Don Lugo 6
Hemet 41, Lakeside 0
JSerra 32, Downey 7
Laguna Hills 8, Irvine 0
Lakewood Saint Joseph 32, Mater Dei 7
La Serna 28, La Mirada 0
Linfield Christian 46, Murrieta Mesa 12
Los Alamitos 22, Anaheim 2
Mission Viejo 12, Marina 6
Norwalk 18, Bell Gardens 6
Ontario 31, Pomona 0
Palm Desert 13, Palm Springs 9
Placentia 28, Long Beach Jordan 13
Rancho Cucamonga 19, Norco 0
Riverside King 29, Arlington 0
Riverside North 13, Vista del Lago 12
Riverside Poly 14, Valley View 12
San Dimas 13, Covina 0
San Gorgonio 32, Rialto 0
Santa Ana Foothill 12, Fountain Valley 6
Segerstrom 6, Capistrano Valley 0
Shadow Hills 33, La Quinta 0
Sierra Vista 40, Westridge 0
Sunny Hills 34, Long Beach Wilson 0
Temecula Prep 27, Temecula Valley 6
Temescal Canyon 15, Hillcrest 2