- Governor Gavin Newsom urges Trump to resign.
- “These are the actions of a dictator, not president,” he says.
- Defense Chief says ready to mobile active troops.
Los Angeles: California National Guard troops were released to the Los Angeles streets Sunday to help dampen a third day of protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement when the state’s democratic governor called their deployment illegal.
The National Guard troops were stationed around federal government buildings as police and protesters collided in separate demonstrations over federal immigration attacks in Los Angeles.
The LA police declared that several events were “illegal assemblies” in which they claimed that some protesters threw concrete, bottles and other objects on the police. Several self -driving cars from Alphabet’s Waymo were set on fire on a street in the center on Sunday night, video footage showed.
“Arrests start,” the police department wrote in a post on social media. Police in Los Angeles inmates officers on horseback to try to control crowds.
Protesters shouted “Shame on you” on the police, and some seemed to throw items, according to video. A group of protesters blocked 101 freeway, an important throughput road in the center of Los Angele.
Groups of protesters, many who carry Mexican flags and characters condemning US immigration authorities, gathered in several places around the city. The Los Angeles branch of the Party of Socialism and Liberation organized speakers outside the town hall for an afternoon rally.
California’s Governor Gavin Newsom said he requested the Trump administration withdraw his order to deploy 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles County and called it illegally.
Newsom accused Trump of trying to produce a crisis and violate the sovereignty of California’s state. “This is the actions of a dictator, not a president,” he wrote in a post about X.
The White House contested Newsom’s characterization and said in a statement that “everyone saw chaos, violence and lawlessness.”
Previously, around a dozen National Guard members, along with the Department of Homeland Security staff back a group of protesters gathered outside a federal building in the center of Los Angele showed video.
The US northern command said 300 members of California National Guard had been deployed to three areas in the Los Angeles area. Their mission was limited to protecting federal staff and property.
Trump in a social media post on Sunday called the protesters “violent, the mob of the uprising” and said he instructed his cabinet officers “to take all such acts necessary” to stop what he called “riots”.
He spoke with journalists in New Jersey and threatened violence against protesters spitting on police or national watch troops and saying “they spit, we hit.” He did not quote any specific events.
“If we see the danger of our country and to our citizens, it will be very, very strong in terms of law and order,” Trump said.
The FBI offered a reward of $ 50,000 for information about a suspect who was accused of throwing cliffs on police cars in paramount and wounded a federal officer.
Despite Trump’s rhetoric of the demonstrations, he has not invoked the law of the Curring Act, a 1807 law that authorizes a president to deploy the US military to suppress events such as civil disorder. When asked on Sunday whether he was considering invoking the law, he replied “It depends on whether there is an uprising or not.”
‘Prepared to mobilize active troops’
Defense Secretary Pete Hegeth has warned that the Pentagon was prepared to mobilize active troops “whose violence continues” in Los Angeles and said the marines in the nearby Camp Pendleton was “on a high alarm”. The US northern command has said that about 500 marines were ready to deploy if ordered.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass accused the Trump administration of encouraging tension by sending the National Guard, but also condemning protesters who became violent.
“I don’t want people to fall into the chaos that I think is created by the administration completely unnecessarily,” Bass told journalists at a press conference.
Vanessa Cárdenas, the leader of the immigration lawyer group America’s Voice, accused the Trump administration of “trumping an apology to abuse power and deliberately stoke and force confrontations around immigration.”
Homeland’s security secretary Christ’s Noem told CBS ‘”Face the Nation” on Sunday that the National Guard would provide security about buildings to people dealing with peaceful protest and for law enforcement.
Trump has promised to deport the record amount of people in the country illegally and lock the US -Mexico border and set a goal for ICE to arrest at least 3,000 migrants per year. Day. Census data suggests that a significant proportion of the population of democratically driven Los Angeles is Latin American and foreign -born.
But the sweeping enforcement measures have also included people who are legally resident in the country, some with permanent residence and have led to legal challenges.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Sunday criticized the US government over immigration attacks and the deployment of the National Guard.
“We do not agree with this way of tackling the immigration issue,” said Sheinbaum, who has tried to cultivate a positive relationship with Trump, at a public event. “The phenomenon will not be treated with raids or violence. It will be sitting down and working on extensive reform.”
Legal reasons
Trump’s rationale for the National Guard implementation quoted a provision in section 10 of the US code on the armed forces. However, section 10 also says that “orders for these purposes are issued through the governors of the states.”
It was not immediately clear whether the president had the legal authority to deploy the National Guard without Newsom’s order.
Section 10 allows for the deployment of the National Guard of the federal government if there is “a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the United States government.” These troops are only allowed to participate in limited activities and cannot carry out ordinary law enforcement activities.
Trump’s memo says the troops “will temporarily protect IS and other US government staff performing federal functions, including enforcement of federal legislation, and to protect federal property in places where protests against these functions or are likely to occur”.
