Kathmandu. U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday ordered u.S. Marines and an additional 2,000 National Guard troops on active duty in Los Angeles.
He has threatened more “severe injuries” than ever before for those opposing the arrest of migrants. Trump’s extraordinary mobilisation of 700 full-time professional military personnel and thousands of National Guard troops came on the fourth day of street protests triggered by the arrest of dozens of immigrants in Los Angeles, a city of large foreign-born and Latino populations.
California Governor Gavin Newsom strongly criticized the move, posting on X that American Marines “should not be deployed on American soil facing their countrymen to fulfill the distorted imagination of a dictatorial president.” It’s non-American. ”
The operation came after protesters seized roads, burned cars and looted shops in Los Angeles’s main city on Sunday. In which law enforcement responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.
But Monday’s protests ended largely peacefully after the weekend’s protests triggered dozens of arrests of illegal immigrants and gang members, officials said. “Pigs go home!” shouted protesters to the National Guards outside the federal detention center. Others crashed into unmarked vehicles as they crossed police control lines.
Law enforcement fired tear gas and flash-bang grenades at protesters who chanted slogans against immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) agencies in santa ana, a nearby town about 32 miles (50 km) southwest of Los Angeles.
Hit hard
Speaking in Washington, Trump called the protesters “professional protesters and rebels.” “If they keep doing this, I promise you they’ll be hit harder than ever,” he said, as protesters spit on soldiers on social media. Despite isolated and eye-catching acts of violence, authorities and local law enforcement insisted most protesters were peaceful over the weekend.
Schools across Los Angeles were operating normally on Monday, while life in the city looked largely unchanged. Contrary to Trump’s description of the protests, Mayor Karen Bass said, “It’s isolated on some streets. This is not city-wide civil unrest. Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said local authorities were able to control the city.
“The introduction of federal, military personnel without direct coordination creates logistical challenges and creates confusion over important events,” he told reporters. Los Angeles Police Department officials said at least 56 people had been arrested in two days and five officers suffered minor injuries. Authorities say about 60 people have been arrested during protests in San Francisco.
Protesters clashed with police in New York City and Austin, Texas, on Monday. Police arrested several people after about 100 people gathered near the federal building in Manhattan. An immigration hearing was held there. Trump’s military use is an “incredibly rare” move for the US president, said Colonel Rachel Vanlandingham, a professor at Southwestern Law College in Los Angeles and a former U.S. Air Force lieutenant. Since 1965, the National Guard has not been deployed over the head of the state governor at the height of the civil rights movement. U.S. law largely prohibits the use of the military as a police force on home soil, except in rebellion.
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