Protests Against Immigrant Immigration Raids in Los Angeles, California, During Trump’s Re-election Decree
As a weekend of protests against immigration raids in California have continued into this week, the Trump administration has responded by deploying more Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles, sparking heated exchanges with politicians in the state.
Los Angeles police said that while the protests have mostly been peaceful, some violence has occurred. Though, several officials have rebuffed the president’s intervention, saying they have it handled.
The mayor thinks that the city is being used as a case study on what will happen if the federal government takes the authority away from the state.
50 people were arrested in Los Angeles over the weekend, the police department said. The Los Angeles Police Department supports the First Amendment right to assemble.
Peaceful protest is legal. Harming a person or property is illegal & will lead to arrest,” Abbott posted on X Tuesday. “@TexasGuard will use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order.”
The department said some people were building barricades and throwing objects at officers. Police used tear gas canisters and “less lethal” weapons to break up the crowds. There were minor injuries to five officers. The LAPD Professional Standards Bureau is investigating if the department used excessive force.
The Los Angeles Police Department said those arrested were facing a number of charges, including attempted murder with a Molotov cocktail, assault on a police officer and failure to disperse. David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union California, was among those who were released after being arrested.
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700 Marines have been dispatched to the state, two government officials told NPR. The police chief said he hadn’t been told about the Marines showing up.
“The Los Angeles Police Department, alongside our mutual aid partners, have decades of experience managing large-scale public demonstrations, and we remain confident in our ability to do so professionally and effectively,” he said.
On Saturday, President Trump federalized 2,000 National Guard troops for 60 days or whatever duration Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth finds appropriate. Trump additionally said other branches of the armed forces may be dispatched to support. He put in an order for another 2,000 troops Monday.
“To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States,” Trump said in the order.
McDonnell refuted claims that it took LAPD more than two hours to respond to a federal request for assistance. He said the LAPD did not know federal forces were coming and thus took longer to respond to calls about the protest due to traffic conditions and hazardous conditions caused by tear gas used by federal troops. The department was on the scene in 38 minutes, McDonnell said.
The U.S. Department of Interior and Interior Minister Gavin Newsom, R-Lasinio, is suing the Trump administration for sending troops into California
On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said his state is suing the Trump administration for sending National Guard troops into California. The California Constitution gives the governor’s control over the National Guard.
The White House said in a statement, “Democrats like Gavin Newsom and [Los Angeles Mayor] Karen Bass should be thanking President Trump for stepping up and leading where they refused — and for ridding their streets of criminal illegal immigrant killers, rapists, and gangbangers.”
He said that this isn’t about public safety. “It’s about giving the president something to think about.” This is Reckless. Pointless. Disrespect to our soldiers.
The governor said that he had to do his job, in response to the vice president telling him to do it. We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. Take away the order. Control to California should be returned.
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Following mass immigration raids in Los Angeles people are still protesting the Trump administration’s actions.
However, things on Wednesday quieted down in some parts of the country, including New York City, where just a few hundred protesters gathered outside the city’s immigration court.
“When you raid Home Depots and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart, and when you run armored caravans through our streets, you’re not trying to keep anyone safe,” Bass said. “You are trying to cause fear and panic.”
“I think that anyone who is involved in violence, or something like that, is supporting the cause of immigrants,” Bass said at the press conference. They know that if they do that, that can ignite an even bigger reaction from the administration.
Demonstrations are expected across the nation on Saturday as part of No Kings Day, a nationwide event organized by progressive groups to protest Trump’s second term actions. The U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary is being celebrated that day in Washington DC, as well as his 79th birthday.
The crowd of people chanted those words in large numbers near the ICE field office and in the streets of Manhattan as part of a series of nationwide rallies against President Trump’s immigration sweeps.
“There are many voices in my community that can’t be here today out of fear of what the administration is doing, so I want to be here for them,” 19-year-old Jeanet told NPR as she joined hundreds of other protesters in lower Manhattan Tuesday night.
She wanted her last name to not be included because she was worried about her safety. She said she would like to join the military and also went to the protest because of that.
Jeanete said that it’s more important for her to speak out against what the administration is doing as a person in the government, but still for the sake of the United States.
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The New York Police Department didn’t provide an answer to questions about how many people were arrested, but NPR reporters saw a number of people in handcuffs.
“It hurts me to see families being separated, because I lived that,” Lopez, who came to the protest with her sister, told NPR in Spanish. “We come here to work … to progress — it’s not fair.”
“They can’t necessarily show up to rallies because they might get picked up by ICE, so I think we have to stand up,” said Arfraz, who asked NPR to not use his last name out of fear for his safety. “And those who are able to stand up have a higher and urgent responsibility to do it today.”
During a Morning Edition interview taped on Tuesday morning, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin defended the Trump administration’s memorandum deploying military troops to Los Angeles and said the FBI and IRS are investigating who is behind the unrest.
“There’s some activity on the ground that it seems that is highly coordinated and that there might be a financial backer that could be even a foreign adversary,” she said.
I don’t think that the governor and the mayor are paid for. And if they’re not, they’re just troublemakers. What can I tell you? “But I think somebody’s paying them,” said Trump who traveled with him to North Carolina.
McLaughlin criticized California leaders for failing to restore order, spoke about deportations and discussed a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador who the Trump administration brought back to the U.S.
Trump administration defends Trump administration’s use of military in LA: resolving Los Angeles’s protests with the Marines — and what are they saying?
Steve, a lot of different ways. Crowd control, also defense of the buildings. We’ve seen threats against ICE on these federal buildings. Kill America. Death to the United States. There is more we need on the ground. We saw on Friday about 1,000 protesters were surrounding ice enforcement in a federal building, far outnumbering them. And then we saw that again on Sunday, about 6,000 protesters, again vastly outnumbering our ICE enforcement officers. So this is really just greater resources, and largely part for crowd control.
McLaughlin: I believe it’s more boots on the ground. It’s more men and women in uniform making sure that law enforcement’s safe, our federal property safe, and that those protesters are safe as well. It has not been a smooth time in California and we wanted to return to law and order.
Inskeep: Marines have been sent into Los Angeles. It’s very early, but what skills did the Marines have that apply in this particular urban situation that even the national guard does not have?
I’ve seen the video and photos of the cars. That’s certainly true, but I think about the role of the military and what Secretary Pete Hegseth wants the military to do. He defines lethality and readiness as the ability to get ready for combat. How does sending Marines to protect buildings and cars in Los Angeles match up with that mission, if at all?
The President’s memorandum says that the protests can be seen as a kind of rebellion. That’s what it’s referred to as. I want to see if we can understand what a rebellion is. A rebellion is a group of people who have a leader and an objective. Do you know who’s in charge of this rebellion?
Source: DHS spokesperson defends Trump administration’s use of military in LA
Why has the most injunctions in American history under a single president come into force? Kilmar Abrego Garcia: What can we do about it?
McLaughlin: Last month? I don’t have that number on my hand. I would have to speak with you about that. I know deportations are around in the last 125 days, about 150,000.
Roughly. I think we’ve been able to increase our efforts. I mean, we did inherit, you know, a very broken ICE, a very broken CBP, people who are not able to do their jobs for the last four years.
The deportation rate is higher than the average under President Obama, but it is still considerably less than the average under President Trump. Why did it take so long to get the numbers up?
McLaughlin, “That’s right.” We have been facing a historic number of injunctions, Steve, as you know, at the hands of a lot of these judges. We knew that coming in though. I believe it’s a matter of resources. We do need to pass this bill by Congress to make sure we give our ICE enforcement officers more resources, especially in the face of these kinds of protests. These officers have not been given the power to do their jobs in four years, so you are going from zero to 100 quickly because they are once again able to do their jobs.
I would counter that. This has been the most injunctions in American history under a single president. Absolutely, Steve. Look at the numbers.
McLaughlin: “I’m very angry.” No. I think. I mean, the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. There were eight individuals in South Sudan who were sentenced to death and were ordered to be deported. Those eight individuals and the Massachusetts judge ordering that they come back. This is not the norm. Why do we have district judges who want to bring child rapists and killers back to the U.S. as quickly as possible? Steve, it’s quite disturbing and it’s pure activism.
I guess we need to note that the Supreme Court, which is unanimous among other courts, believes that people should be heard in court even if they are found to be terrorists. One more question that comes from that. Since you brought up Kilmar AbregoGarcia, you brought him back to the United States to face criminal charges. He’s facing an indictment, so he’ll get his day in court. The administration said he couldn’t be brought back. Now that the United States has brought him back, would you agree it was always possible to bring him back?
“I would leave that to the Department of Justice, but I think that what really matters is the egg on the faces of a lot of Democrats and the media who have been hell bent on saying that this is an innocent Maryland man.” They’ve been saying that for months. He was a trafficker full time. Allegedly. I completely disagree with you and I have to counter that. I think the environment that we’re in, as a judicial group, is far different from what it was under President Obama or even President Trump.
Inskeep: Just to clarify, you said you’d leave it to the Department of Justice. I understand. But given that it is now clear that it was possible, why wasn’t the government brought him back before?
McLaughlin: I mean, there’s, of course, you’ve heard the facilitate versus effectuate argument multiple times. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not facing a grand jury in Tennessee before now. The facts on the ground have changed.