In the Trump era, MSNBC’s Deadline: White House has served as the hotbed of apocalyptic, deranged rhetoric and almost encouraging defining your mental health on our politics. Monday’s show opened with host Nicolle Wallace by saying America’s in “a uniquely alarming moment” with Trump using “an unfolding situation as a political opportunity, one for him to advance his goal of strengthening and fortifying his grip on power.”

Moments later in the show we unofficially dub the Rich, White, Liberal, Wine Mom Story Hour, longtime illegal immigration advocate/NBC journalist Jacob Soboroff decried deportations as having pierced the heart of Los Angeles given ten percent of its population are illegal and thus “part of the fabric of the city” as “our neighbors, our coworkers, our classmates, our friends, our parishioners.”

Wallace — whose daily hysteria must have some sort of psychological impact on her possibly hobby-less viewers — began in hushed tones: 

We are in the midst of a uniquely alarming moment, right? A moment where a President of the United States an unfolding situation as a political opportunity, one for him to advance his goal of strengthening and fortifying his grip on power because what’s happening in Los Angeles is not just about immigration. We all know that. President Barack Obama carried out more deportations in his eight years in any administration at a pace quicker than even Donald. Trump’s first term. Do you remember ICE raids in the middle of cities by men wearing paramilitary gear, and then Obama sending in the National Guard over the objections of governors? Yeah, neither do I. Because that never happened. Do you know why it never happened? It never happened because carrying out a legal and orderly and effective immigration.

She went on by saying “[p]olicy isn’t at all what Trump is doing,” but rather “producing theater and maybe it’s to distract...from talking about Elon Musk’s tweet with his unsubstantiated allegations about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein,” “his plunging approval ratings on the economy, trade, inflation, even immigration,” “his stalled agenda in Congress,” or “the debacle of a trade war he started.”

Quoting a Biden ICE official lashing out at Trump deportations as having destroyed “constitutional protections,” Wallace said this weekend was “Donald Trump’s Rubicon crossing moment this weekend” by calling up the California National Guard.

For good measure, she quoted extensively from The New York Times’s coverage of the Los Angeles riots, which we at NewsBusters pointed out as having been comically stupid.

Wallace made sure to tie in January 6, kvetching he referred to the violent rioters as “insurrectionists” and using the case as a false flag to then “us[e] the military against the ‘enemy within.’”

This eventually went into Soboroff outside his own Home Depot, which was allegedly the site of one raid. Soboroff predictably hailed Wallace’s fear-mongering as “really wonderful because I think what it sets up so perfectly is how unusual and how unprecedented the size and the scale and the scope of the immigration enforcement operations that took place in Los Angeles, starting with right here at this Home Depot in Cypress Park at 7:00, 7:15, 7:30 on Friday morning[.]”

Soboroff moved into his rant waxing poetic about the beauty of illegal immigrants as “part of the fabric” of the region:

The big picture is Los Angeles is a so-called majority minority city in a majority minority state. There are more people of color that live in Los Angeles than white people at this point and many of those people are undocumented. Some by some counts, 10% of the population of LA County, one of the largest counties — the largest county by population in the United States — is undocumented. Maybe as many as a million people. Those people are our neighbors, our coworkers, our classmates, our friends, our parishioners, fellow parishioners, and churches. They are part of the fabric of the city of Los Angeles[.]

As our Nick Fondacaro tweeted in reference to this, you know what else has been part of the city’s “fabric”? Unsavory people like Harvey Weinstein and criminal behavior such as casting couches.

But moving on with Soboroff, he lamented the region hasn’t seen “the type of immigration enforcement we saw play out on the streets of Los Angeles on Friday, and that struck fear into the heart of not just the undocumented community here, but of many U.S. citizen family members of undocumented people, and many U.S. citizens who know those people, because that is removing people from this community who have been here, if not their entire life, virtually their entire lives” with some “mixed status families.”

After a nod to the “family separation of the first Trump administration in 2018 was a deliberate ripping apart of parents and children at the border to separate those families and inflict pain” (which he wrote a book about), he conceded this was all predictable as a key Trump campaign plank.

“And so, now we’re seeing it effectuated on...the largest undocumented population in America, where those people interact — I say those people — we — we all interact on a daily basis here. And it has terrified so many people...[A] largely peaceful protest, two, actually, that converged...to say this is not acceptable to...everyone who knows how important that community is to the fabric of this one” he added.

Before interviewing a fellow advocate standing next to him, Soboroff decried raids of day laborers as a necessary part of the workforce (in essence, a but-who-will-pick-the-cotton bit) (click “expand”):

WALLACE: Jacob, what is the current understanding of who’s being targeted by Trump and ICE?

SOBOROFF: Well, Tom Homan told me it’s no longer just the worst of the worst. I talked to Tom Homan on Saturday night. I met him after some of those enforcement operations that unfolded. And you know, what’s in the press today is that he and Gavin Newsom are going back and forth about the potential arrest of government officials, you know, Democrats here in California, which he said he would only do, you know, I want to make clear, if they got in between an ICE operation and blocked it. But the other thing that he said to me is that those types of operations are going to unfold every day, and they’re not just going to be the most violent offenders. They’re not just going to be the “so-called worst of the worst.” They’re going to be the people that stand on corners like this, which is which brings me to being at Home Depot. So, let me explain to you what — what you’re looking at. This is a neighborhood called Cypress Park in Los Angeles. Obviously, this is a Home Depot. On corners, just like this, Nicolle, every single day and I drive — this is not far from where I live, actually — day laborers stand on corners just like this and they look for work. They look for work in people’s homes, in places of work all across Los Angeles to do tasks mean — menial and important, to get a good day’s, a decent day’s wage. What happened on Monday morning at 7:00, 7:30 was reportedly around 10, 20, 30, maybe more ICE agents or federal agents with masks on came from around the back corner of this Home Depot and walked to a basically a place where many of the day laborers wait in order to get picked up for work. They chased those day laborers. Some of them ran across the street here, which is Figueroa, a main thoroughfare, across the street to that McDonald’s, and did everything they could to get away from that enforcement operation by ice. They were terrified.

To see the relevant MSNBC transcript from June 9, click here.