US President sent two thousand federal guard members to maintain order in the city after two consecutive days of protests against measures to apply the immigration law
About 300 members of the California National Guard are now highlighted in three places in Los Angeles after two consecutive days of protests against immigration law application measures, Governor Gavin Newson’s office told CNN. These are the first of 2,000 federal guard elements that will arrive in the city by President Donald Trump to maintain order.
“These 2,000 National Guard soldiers are being mobilized today are specifically trained for this type of multitude situation,” said United States Internal Security Secretary Kristi Noem on CBS’s “Face The Nation” program on Sunday. Noem said soldiers will be there to “keep security for operations and to ensure that we have peaceful protests,” but gave no details about their activities on the ground. “We will not allow a 2020 repetition to happen,” he said, referring to Black Lives Matter protests that broke out in Minneapolis during the summer of 2020.
Protests in Los Angeles and surroundings broke out on Friday after at least 44 people were detained by federal immigration agents early in the day. The arrests were just another moment in Trump’s policy of immigration repression, which has included Rusgas and deportations across the country. At the end of Saturday, some protesters gathered near an immigrant detention center in Alameda, set fire to tires and other objects, and set up barricades on various avenues of the city. The forces of the Order used tear gas and rubber bullets in an effort to disperse the crowd in Paramount, California, and several protesters were arrested.
But the situation got worse when President Donald Trump said he was going to send 2,000 members of the National Guard to control protesters at night. “President Trump has signed a presidential memorandum that foresees the sending of 2,000 National Guard staff to remedy the illegality that was allowed to flourish,” said White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt, blaming California’s ‘incompetent’ leaders. Trump explained on social networks that local authorities had not been able to deal with the disorders and that the federal government would “solve the problem as it should be solved.”
California governor Gavin Newsom classified troops as “purposely inflammatory” and said he would only increase tensions. The United Latin American Citizens League also condemned Trump’s order, saying that the measure “marks a deeply worrying climbing in the approach of administration to immigration and civil reaction to the use of military-style tactics.”
The Los Angeles Sheriff Department told CNN that some of the remaining protesters threw fire fire to the forces of the Order, while the agents formed a line of skirmish to push people away from the area. In New York were also detained people trying to obstruct immigration control activities, FBI’s deputy director Dan Bongino said today. In a social media publication, Bongino said detainees may be the target of federal, local and state -owned accusations. “It won’t end well for you to choose the violence. Choose wisely.”
Trump’s decision to send federal guards is a common pco in US history. Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson used National Guard to help make civil rights respect and maintain public order. The guard was also federalized during the 1967 riot in Detroit, in the riots that followed the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and during the New York post strike in 1970. According to CNN, the last time a president federated the National Guard was during the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, after four white police were acquitted by the beaten, recording In video, from a black motorist.
