The American National Guard is deployed around the city center of Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, after a protest in immigration raid the day before.
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Members of the California National Guard arrived in the Los Angeles region on Sunday morning after President Trump activated the troops to slow down the demonstrations against the federal immigration raids that have occurred in and around the city in recent days.
Some of the demonstrations, which came in response to a series of immigration sweeping in Los Angeles at the end of last week, degenerated into clashes Between demonstrators and agents responsible for the application of laws.
In response, the White House said Trump deploy 2,000 members of the National Guard in California. In an article on social networks, Trump attacked What he called “Radical left protests” by “instigators and often troublemakers.”
Diana Crofts-Pelayo, deputy communications director of Governor Gavin Newsom, said by e-mail at NPR on Sunday morning that around 300 troops of the California National Guard arrived in Los Angeles.
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth said in a post on x These Marines in active service at Camp Pendleton are on alert and would also be mobilized “if violence continues”.
The firefighters responded to a burning car during a demonstration in Compton, California, Saturday, June 7, after the federal immigration authorities carried out operations.
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But Newsom said there was no widespread violence and Added in a declaration That the Trump administration is “chaos for chaos so that it can have an excuse to degenerate. This is not that any civilized country behaves”.
Last week, the actions of American immigration and customs agents triggered demonstrations in several cities across the country, including Minneapolis and Chicago. Trump has Application of the increased immigration law In his second mandate after having operated on a promise to carry out mass deportations.
Ice operations have targeted several locations in the Los Angeles region and, in some cases, the demonstrators tried to block the transport of detained immigrants. The authorities have used flash fringes, pepper spray and tear gas to disperse the crowds. A particularly controversial confrontation occurred in a Home Depot in the highly Latin city of Paramount, just outside Los Angeles.
The demonstrators confront the law enforcement agents outside an industrial park in Paramount, California, on Saturday June 7.
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Acting director of the Todd Lyons ice cream said in a press release That “rioters have attacked federal ice agents of ice and the police in the streets of Los Angeles” and that the crowds “also” surrounded and attacked a federal building “.
An unknown number of people were arrested in the clashes. One of them was the president of California of Seiu, David Huerta. THE Union said He was injured during his arrest and then released from the guard. Huerta was arrested for Interfere with federal officers and will be arrested on Monday before the Federal Court.
Ice said In a Saturday post on X that he had arrested 118 immigrants during the operations in Los Angeles last week.
Newsom said in a press release On Saturday, this assistance for the police was available to the Los Angeles authorities who asked for it and that there was currently “no unsatisfied need”. He accused the federal government of “moving to take over the California National Guard”.
Asset said in an article on social social Early Sunday morning, the National Guard was doing an “excellent job”. The National Guard can be activated By governors for local emergencies or on the state level, and the American presidents can also call the National Guard for federal missions, putting strength in the military chain of command.
In separate declarations, the heads of Los Angeles police department and the Sheriff department of the County of Los Angeles said their agencies do not participate in federal immigration application measures, but that they are working to maintain public security.
Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass said Friday that it was “angry” by measures to apply the immigration law which “sement terror” in the community. “We will not defend this,” she said.
After some of the troubles on Saturday, Bass said in another declaration That “everyone has the right to protest peacefully, but allow me to be clear: violence and destruction are unacceptable, and those responsible will be held responsible”.
