Trump deploys the National Guard to appease demonstrations despite the governor's objections
President Donald Trump deploys 2,000 California National Guard troops in Los Angeles for the objections of Governor Gavin Newsom after a second day of clashes between hundreds of demonstrators and the federal immigration authorities with riot equipment.
The confrontations broke out on Saturday near a home deposit in the strongly Latin city in Paramount, south of Los Angeles, where federal agents organized a office of the nearby internal security ministry. The agents unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls and demonstrators launched rocks and cement to border patrol vehicles. The smoke has covered small heaps of burning waste in the streets.
Tensions were raised after a series of scales by the immigration authorities the day before, including in the Los Angeles fashion district and in a home deposit, while the counting of a week of immigrant arrests in the city exceeded 100 years. An eminent chief of the Union was arrested while protested and accused of having empaded the application of the law.
The White House announced that President Trump would deploy the goalkeeper to “address anarchy that has been authorized to shelter”. It was not clear when the troops arrive.
Governor Newsom, a democrat, said in an article on the social platform X that he was “deliberately inflammatory and would only increase tensions”. He later said that the federal government wanted a show and urged people not to give them one by becoming violent.
In a signal of the aggressive approach to the administration, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, threatened to deploy the American army.
“If the violence continues, the Marines in active service at the Pandleton camp will also be mobilized – they are on alert alert,” said Hegseth on X.
Mr. Trump's order came after the clashes in Paramount and Voisin Compton, where a car was burnt down. The demonstrations continued in the evening in Paramount, with several hundred demonstrators gathered near a donut store, and the authorities hold barbed wire to keep the crowd back.
Crowds have also gathered outside the federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles, including a detention center, where local police said an illegal assembly and began to arrest people.
Standoff in Paramount
Earlier in Paramount, immigration agents faced demonstrators at the entrance to a business park, opposite the back of a home depot. They sparked fireworks and pulled caddies in the street, broke up the concrete blocks and struck a procession of border patrol vans leaving and hiding a boulevard.
American lawyer Bill Essayli said that federal agents had carried out more people with expulsion orders on Saturday, but none at the Home Depot. The Department of Homeland Security has a building next to it and the agents organized there while they were preparing to carry out operations, he said on Fox11 Los Angeles. He did not say how many people were arrested on Saturday or where.
The mayor of Paramount Peggy Lemons told several media that members of the community have presented themselves in response because people are afraid of the activity of immigration agents.
“When you manage things about how it seems to be manipulated, it is not surprising that chaos follows,” said Lemons.
Some demonstrators made fun of officers while recording events on smartphones.
“Ice out of paramount. We see you for what you are,” said a woman through a megaphone. “You are not welcome here.”
More than a dozen people have been arrested and accused of hampering immigration agents, Essayli published on X, including the names and cups of some of the arrested. He didn't say where they protested.
Trump calls guard
Mr. Trump federalized part of the California National Guard under what is called Title authority 10Who places him, not the governor, at the top of the chain of command, according to Mr. Newsom's office.
The white house press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that the work that the immigration authorities did when they met demonstrations are “essential to interrupt and reverse the invasion of illegal criminals in the United States. Following this violence, the California -free Democratic Democratic leaders completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens. ”
The president's move occurred shortly after having published a threat to his network of social media saying that if Mr. Newsom and the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass did not “do their work”, then “the federal government will intervene and solve the problem, riots and wells, the way it should be resolved !!!”
Trump signed the order shortly before going to attend a UFC fight in New Jersey, where he was sitting on the edge of the Mike Tyson boxer.
Mr. Newsom said in his declaration that local authorities “were able to access law enforcement at any time” and “there is currently no unsatisfied need”.
The California Highway Patrol said that Mr. Newsom had ordered additional officers to “maintain public security”.
“Everyone has the right to protest peacefully, but allow me to be clear: violence and destruction are unacceptable, and those responsible will be responsible,” Bass said in a statement on Sunday.
She said that she had spoken with members of the Trump administration and insisted so that she and Mr. Newsom control and that there is no need to deploy the National Guard.
In 2020, Trump asked the governors of several states to deploy their national guard troops in Washington, DC, to stifle the demonstrations after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. Many have accepted and sent troops.
Trump also threatened at the time to invoke the Insurrection Act for these demonstrations – an intervention rarely seen in modern American history. But the secretary of defense of the time, Mark Esper, rejected, saying that the law should be invoked “only in the most urgent and disastrous situations”.
George HW Bush used the Insurrection Act to respond to riots in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of white police officers who were recorded by beating the black motorist Rodney King.
Mr. Trump did not invoke the act during his first mandate, and he did not do it on Saturday, according to Ms. Leavitt and Newsom.
Arrests in Los Angeles
The demonstrations started a day earlier in Los Angeles after the federal authorities arrested 44 people for violating immigration law on Friday.
The DHS later said that recent ice operations in Los Angeles had led to the arrest of 118 immigrants, including five people linked to criminal organizations and people with criminal history.
David Huerta, regional president of the International Union of Services Employees, was also arrested on Friday when he protests. The Ministry of Justice confirmed that he was detained on Saturday at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles before an appearance before the court on Monday.
The chief of the minority of the Democratic Senate, Chuck Schumer, called for his immediate release, warning of a “disturbing model of arrest and detention of American citizens for having exercised their right to freedom of expression”.
This article is by the Associated Press. Lee reported Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Price de Bridgewater, New Jersey. The writers of the associated press Zeke Miller and Eric Tucker in Washington; Rebecca Boone in Boisse, Idaho and Sophia Tareen in Chicago contributed.
