Los Angeles (AP) – The national guard troops began to arrive in Los Angeles early Sunday on the orders of President Donald Trump in response to clashes in recent days between Federal Immigration Authorities And the demonstrators seeking to prevent them from making deportations.
Members of the California National Guard have been seen organizing the Federal Complex in downtown Los Angeles which includes the metropolitan detention center, one of the many sites that have attracted confrontations involving hundreds of people in the past two days.
Asset said he deploys 2,000 California National Guard troops in Los Angeles to repress demonstrations, which he called “a form of rebellion”.
This decision occurred on the objections of Governor Gavin Newsom, marking the first time in decades that the national guard of a State was activated without the request of its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
Early on Sunday, the deployment was limited to a small area in downtown Los Angeles, with the rest of the city of 4 million people largely not affected.
Their arrival follows two days of relatively small events that started on Friday in downtown Los Angeles before spreading on Saturday in Paramount, a strongly Latin city south of the city and a neighboring butt.
While the federal agents organized near a Home Depot in Paramount, the demonstrators sought to block the border patrol vehicles, with rocks and pieces of cement. In response, federal riot equipment agents have unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls.
Tensions were raised after a series of scales by the immigration authorities the day before, while the count of a week of immigrant arrests in the city has climbed beyond 100 years.
Newsom called Trump on Friday evening and spoke for about 40 minutes, according to the governor’s office. It was not clear if they were talking on Saturday or Sunday.
Sunday morning, the secretary of internal security, Kristi Noem, said that the National Guard “would maintain peace and allow people to protest but also to keep the law and order”.
The troops included members of the 79th combat team of the infantry brigade, according to a Social media message of the Ministry of Defense who showed dozens of members of the National Guard with long cannons and an armored vehicle.
In a signal of the aggressive approach of the administration, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, also threatened to deploy marines in active service “if the violence continues” in the region.
Newsom, a Democrat, described Trump’s decision to call the National Guard as a “provocative force demonstration” which would only worsen tensions, adding that HegSeth’s threat to deploy the sea on American soil was “disturbed behavior”.
Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders said that Trump’s order reflected “a president quickly deploying this country in authoritarianism” and “usurping the powers of the American Congress”.
Chamber president Mike Johnson, an ally of Trump, approved the president’s decision, doubled the criticism of the Republicans with Californian Democrats.
“Gavin Newsom has shown an inability or reluctance to do what is necessary, so the president intervened,” said Johnson on ABC “this week”.
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Offenhartz reported in New York.
