Governor Gavin Newsom is objecting to Donald Trump sending 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles following a second day of violence between federal immigration officials in riot gear and hundreds of demonstrators. To have an excuse to escalate things, the federal government is causing chaos,” Newsom said on social media. There is no decent nation that acts in this manner.
Calling the National Guard’s deployment a “deliberate and cowardly” move, he said it will “only escalate tensions. On his “Truth Social” platform on Saturday, Trump responded to Gavin Newsom by saying, “If California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
On Saturday, federal officers were staging at a Department of Homeland Security office near a Home Depot in the mainly Latino community of Paramount, south of Los Angeles, when confrontations erupted. Protesters threw rocks and cement at Border Patrol cars, as agents used pepper balls, tear gas and flash-bang explosives. In the streets, smoke rose from little heaps of flaming trash.
After a series of raids by immigration officials the day before, including at a Home Depot and in LA’s fashion district, tensions were high as the city’s weekly total of arrests of immigrants surpassed 100. During a rally, a well-known union leader was detained on charges of obstructing police officers.
The White House said Trump would use the Guard to “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester. When the army would come was unclear. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to deploy the U.S. military to symbolise the administration’s aggressive strategy.
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