The president Donald Trump signed a presidential memo mobilizing 2,000 members of the National Guard to disperse protests against immigration In the Los Angeles region, the White House reported in a statement on Saturday night.
“Trump administration has a zero tolerance policy for criminal behaviors and violence, especially when this violence is directed to law agents who are just trying to do their work,” White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “These criminals will be arrested and quickly brought to justice.”
State Representative José Luis Solache said four people were arrested. Tear gas and moral bombs were used on the second consecutive day of demonstrations about immigration.
The FBI is investigating alleged cases of protesters who would have obstructed immigration inspection operations in Los Angeles on Friday and Saturday, said the agency’s deputy director Dan Bongino on Saturday on Saturday.
A White house stated that Trump summoned the National Guard to “Facing anarchy that was allowed to prosper.”
“In recent days, violent crowds have attacked agents from ICE and federal police officers who carried out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California,” the statement said. “These operations are essential to contain and reverse the invasion of illegal criminals to the United States. Given this violence, the weak California democratic leaders have completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens.”
Earlier on Saturday, Trump’s Tom Homan border tsar said in an interview with Fox News that the National Guard would be called to respond to protests.
“We are making Los Angeles safer, and the mayor (Karen) Bass should be thanking us for it,” Homan said. “It is about enforcing the law, and once again we will not apologize for it.”
Stephen Miller, deputy chief of the White House, said the government has two choices: “Deport the invaders or surrender to the insurrection.”
The Justice Department also criticized California officials while protests against federal immigration operations entered their second day.
“The violent attack on law enforcement police officers on the part of lawless protesters is negligible, and Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom need to ask for an end.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department said it was not involved in immigration operations and was just acting to ensure public safety.
The response to the protests generated a conflict between and the Los Angeles Police Department. “Our courageous agents were in great numerical disadvantage, as more than 1,000 protesters surrounded and attacked a federal building,” the ICE said in a statement. “It took more than two hours to the Los Angeles Police Department to respond, although we turned on several times.”
Protests started on Friday
The protests began on Friday afternoon. At night, police said tactical alert throughout the city almost two hours after declaring the demonstrations as illegal meetings in the center.
“The use of less lethal ammunition was authorized by the incident commander,” wrote the LAPD central division into an X post.
Videos of the scene show shock police with shields and sticks, throwing smoke bombs against the crowd. Protesters shouted “liberate all” and held posters as “full rights to all immigrants” and “stop the deportations.” In a video, several police officers arrest at least one person on the floor.
The protest occurred after at least 44 people were arrested by federal immigration agents earlier that day, according to the Associated Press, after ICE agents they fulfilled search warrants in three locations, according to a spokesman for the internal security investigation department.
Arrests occur in the midst of which includes waves of beats and deportations across the country.
