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- “These are the acts of a dictator, not president,” he says.
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Los Angeles: The Troops of the National Guard of California deployed in the streets of Los Angeles on Sunday to help quell a third day of protests on the immigration application of President Donald Trump, since the State Democratic governor described his illegal deployment.
The National Guard troops were parked around federal government buildings, since the police and protesters faced separate demonstrations on federal immigration raids in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Police declared that several demonstrations are “illegal assemblies” claiming that some protesters threw concrete, bottles and other objects in the police. Several autonomous cars of Alphabet’s Waymo caught fire on a street on the center on Sunday night, video images were shown.
“Arrests are being started,” the police department wrote in a publication on social networks. The Los Angeles police deployed officers on horseback to try to control the crowds.
The protesters shouted “shame” to the police and some seemed to launch objects, according to video. A group of protesters blocked highway 101, an important route in downtown Los Angeles.
The groups of protesters, many that carry Mexican flags and signs that denounce the American immigration authorities, met in several places in the city. The Los Angeles Branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation organized speakers outside the City Council for an afternoon rally.
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, said he requested that the Trump administration withdraw his order to deploy 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles County, qualifying him as illegal.
Newsom accused Trump of trying to manufacture a crisis and violate California’s state sovereignty. “These are the acts of a dictator, not a president,” he wrote in an X publication.
The White House played the Newsom characterization, saying in a statement that “everyone saw chaos, violence and illegality.”
Previously, approximately a dozen members of the National Guard, together with the staff of the Department of National Security, delayed a group of protesters who accumulated outside a federal building in the center of Los Angeles, showed a video.
The US command. UU said that 300 members of the California National Guard had been deployed in three areas in the Los Angeles area. His mission was limited to protecting staff and federal property.
Trump in a publication on social networks on Sunday, described the protesters “violent and insurrectionists” and said he was ordering his cabinet officers “to take all those necessary measures” to stop what he called “disturbances.”
Speaking to journalists in New Jersey, he threatened violence against protesters who spit to the troops of the Police or the National Guard, saying “spit, we hit.” He did not quote specific incidents.
“If we see danger to our country and for our citizens, it will be very, very strong in terms of law and order,” Trump said.
The FBI offered a $ 50,000 reward for information about a suspect accused of throwing rocks to police vehicles in Paramount, hurting a federal officer.
Despite Trump’s rhetoric on demonstrations, he has not invoked the insurrection law, an 1807 law that allows a president to display the United States army to suppress events such as civil disorder. When asked on Sunday if he was considering invoking the law, he replied: “It depends on whether there is an insurrection or not.”
‘Prepared to mobilize active service troops’
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, warned that the Pentagon was prepared to mobilize active service troops “if violence continues” in Los Angeles, saying that the Marines in the nearby Camp Pendleton were “on a maximum alert.” The Northern US command. Uu said that about 500 Marines were prepared to deploy if ordered.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, blamed the Trump administration for inciting tensions by sending the National Guard, but also condemned the protesters who became violent.
“I don’t want people to fall into chaos that I think the administration is creating completely unnecessarily,” Bass told journalists at a press conference.
Vanessa Cárdenas, director of the Immigration Defense Group, America’s Voice, accused the Trump administration of “overcoming an excuse to abuse power, and deliberately fueling and forcing confrontations around immigration.”
The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, said on Sunday “Face the Nation” of CBS that the National Guard would provide security around buildings to people who are dedicated to the peaceful protest and the application of the law.
Trump has pledged to deport a record number of people in the country illegally and block the border between the United States and Mexico, establishing a goal for ICE to arrest at least 3,000 migrants per day. Census data suggests that a significant part of the population in Los Angeles, administered by Democrat, is Hispanic and born abroad.
But the measures of application of the law have also included people who legally reside in the country, some with permanent residence, and have led to legal challenges.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized the United States government for immigration raids and the deployment of the National Guard on Sunday.
“We do not agree with this way of addressing the immigration problem,” said Sheinbaum, who has tried to cultivate a positive relationship with Trump, in a public event. “The phenomenon will not be addressed with raids or violence. It will be sitting and working in a comprehensive reform.”
Legal reason
Trump’s justification for the deployment of the National Guard cited a provision of title 10 of the United States Code in the Armed Forces. However, Title 10 also says that “orders for these purposes will be issued through the governors of the states.”
It was not clear immediately if the president had the legal authority to deploy the National Guard without the Newsom Order.
Title 10 allows the deployment of the National Guard by the Federal Government if there is “a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the United States government.” These troops can only participate in limited activities and cannot undertake ordinary law activities.
The Trump memorandum says that the troops “will temporarily protect the ice and other personnel of the United States government that perform federal functions, including the application of the federal law and to protect federal properties, in places where protests against these functions are occurring or probably occur.”
