The military deployment intensifies an unpublished pulse between the United States government, in the hands of Republican Donald Trump, and California, the most populous state in the country and clear democratic tendency. About 700 marines Los Angeles arrived on Tuesday to reinforce the presence of troops in the city, which accumulates four days of demonstrations against Trump’s immigration policies. The president has raised his rhetoric against local authorities, which argue that the thousands of national guards sent are not required or necessary. The Republican responded to these complaints with the transfer of two other thousand reservists to take another step in the militarization process of the second most populous city in the country.
About 5,000 military – about 700 marines and 4,000 national guards – will occupy the streets of California in the next few days. It is exceptional that a group of marinesone of the infantry bodies of the Armed Forces, have been transferred to a city both administrations in Democratic hands. Republican Trump had to invoke presidential powers reserved for emergencies to reinforce surveillance in the framework of mostly peaceful protests. The last president who did it was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, when he sent military to avoid racist disturbances in Selma, in the state of Alabama.
The North Command has confirmed the arrival of 700 on Tuesday marines To Los Angeles. These left Monday night from their military base, located in the Californian town of Twentynine Palms, east of the city, in the Mojave desert. The military authorities, however, have avoided mentioning the specific location where they will be prominent. The Trump government had indicated before the reinforcements were required of the immigration authorities, the ICE, and those who accompany them in the operations of indocumented arrests.
The military arrived in a city that lived their fourth day of demonstrations. Monday’s protest, however, was a lot. Several groups began to march from several points in the center and converged in the Civic Center, a set of administrative buildings around the Los Angeles City Council. Some of these are guarded by dozens of elements of the National Guard.
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Secretary of Defense, said Tuesday that the deployment of the thousands of national guards will cost 134 million dollars, which will be in accommodation and food of the uniformed. So far, only 1,700 of the.
Clogged and sleeping soldiers
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, who has been carrying Trump’s cabinet for two days for a decision that, he says, “tramples” the sovereignty of the state, stressed the lack of maneuver planning. The newspaper published exclusive images of the first national guards who arrived in Los Angeles. In them you could see soldiers sleeping on the floor and overcrowded in the same space. “They sent to the troops without fuel, without water, food or a site to sleep. If someone is missing respect for our troops, it is you, Donald Trump,” Newsom wrote.
The president says that the mobilized guards are the same that gave help to Pacific Palisades and Altadena, two communities destroyed by the fires at the beginning of this year. In addition, they were deployed to combat other priorities of the Trump administration, such as border security with Mexico. “We are withdrawing them from groups such as those of the fight against fentanil for this theatrical sample of rudeness by a president who is deranged,” said Newsom.
The governor presented an emergency order on Tuesday to stop the militarization of Los Angeles. “Trump is using this force against US citizens. Judges must immediately stop these illegal actions,” on social networks.
Jim McDonnell, the Chief of the Angelina Police, the force that has taken care of the dispersion of the demonstrations, criticized the presence of the military on Monday. “His arrival represents a significant challenge for those who must safeguard order in this city,” said McDonnell.
The presence several police groups became more evident from Sunday to Monday. They are the Federal Department of Internal Security, the California Highway Patrol (State Police), the County Sheriff and Local Agents. Dozens of patrols and elements with cheers and shields prevented the progress of protesters to highway 101, an important communication route that was occupied over the weekend. When the spirits were heated, the protesters shouted “peaceful protest, peaceful protest”(Pacific protest). Even so, some police officers Angelina fired rubber bullets and threw stunned grenades.
Monday’s skirmishes were shorter than Sunday’s. During the afternoon, about four hours after the protesters arrived at the center, the agents decreed through their megaphones that this meeting was “illegal.” The speakers roared the order to leave the area in five minutes or risk being arrested. At night, a CNN chain journalist was arrested for a few minutes.
The forces of the order expelled the protesters from the Civic Center. At night there were some acts vandalism. Some provocaters destroyed a truck from the Telemundo chain and the looting of some small shops in the area and the Apple store located in the center was recorded. The authorities made several arrests, but they have not said how exactly or what charges the detainees face.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, has been begging the protesters for several days to act without violence in the mobilizations. “Do not get carried away by chaos caused by Trump. It’s about defending migrant communities, not to destroy the city,” said the Democratic policy on Monday. The center dawned on Tuesday full of graffiti graffiti, broken crystals and stones by the soils.
The tension has begun to spread other points in California. San Francisco added a new mass march on Monday, one day after the local authorities stopped 150 people on Sunday for riots. In Orange County, south of Los Angeles, a republican bastion in the southern progressive of California, Latinos took to the streets to demonstrate against the Donald Trump government. The social climate continues to warm up in full militarization of the most populous state in the country.
