Los Angeles has been the spark that has turned on Anti-Trump after almost five months of their arrival in the government. Last Friday in the streets of the second city with more Mexicans after Mexico City, they caused the protest of hundreds of citizens and activists, which led the president to make one of those unprecedented decisions that challenge all the rules of a country built based on laws. That of the city, without the prior request of the Governor of the State, Gavin Newsom, has caused a contagion effect in the rest of the country. Protests against immigration and militarization policy of Los Angeles have already been repeated for six days in almost thirty cities.
This Wednesday was a calmer day than the past days. They were not repeated this time, partly because of the curfew that shields the center of Los Angeles since Tuesday night. But until minutes before eight in the afternoon, hundreds of people gathered for the sixth consecutive day in the streets of the second city of the country. “Shame!” Shouted the protesters to the police who tried to disperse them around the City Council with balls of tear gums and gases. There were also protests in New York
The eyes of the protesters and the government itself are now put on Saturday, the day the president has prepared a customary celebration for his birthday. The event will include as a main course a military parade through the streets of Washington, but at the same time, in the rest of the country, there are hundreds of calls to show their rejection of the president. He has promised to respond with a hard hand to those who do not join his party: “I have not even heard of a protest, but you know, these are people who hate our country, but they will be faced with great force.”
Trump has already played with the idea of, as commander in chief, extending the militarization of Los Angeles to other cities, which makes the alarms of the security that plans to exercise over the country jump. This is the first time in six decades that a president orders such a deployment, since President Lyndon B. Johnson made the decision to allow Martin Luther King and other activists to demonstrate in Alabama.
It has been described by the lawsuit filed by the California government to stop the militarization of Los Angeles as “a political ardid.” Federal Government lawyers responded on Wednesday to the legal action initiated by Gavin Newsom, which illegally qualifies the deployment of 4,000 reservened national guards and 700 Marine infants.
Emergency powers
The lawyers that Trump invoked discretionary emergency powers that do not need the application of the local government. “This statute empowers the president to determine what forces he considers that they are necessary to suppress a rebellion or to execute the armed forces,” says the lawsuit. The lawyers say that the Executive is not proved in this case would be a “curse to the Constitution” unprecedented.
A magistrate who arrived at the position appointed by Bill Clinton, will be the one who decides on Thursday afternoon if the case goes ahead or if he discards it. Breyer refused to broadcast an emergency failure on Tuesday at the request of Gavin Newsom. “These men and women are trained for combat abroad, not for security tasks. We do not want our militarized streets with our own armed forces,” said the governor in reference to active marines who have been deployed.
. More than moving, they are static guarding a handful of federal buildings. Almost 150 elements are monitoring the internal security facilities in the city of Paramount, near where protests were registered on Saturday against the raids of the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE). Some 300, the most nourished group are near Los Angeles International Airport. A hundred is accompanying ICE elements while they fulfill orders for undocumented arrests on those who hang deportation failures. And about 32 are in Santa Ana, in Orange County.
The person in charge of the troops that have reached southern California, says that the guards are trained to temporarily stop those who attack or prevent the work of ICE agents in the raids. The arrest, however, must be made by a local or municipal security force. Relationships between them have been tensioned in recent days. Trump has converted the safety of protests into a salad of bodies that are not accustomed to working together and confirming protesters.
