Trump deploys National Guard to quell protests against ICE in Los Angeles

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White House says the US president is deploying 2,000 guardsmen to code ‘lawlessness’ arsenic protests against migration raids continue.

United States President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to the metropolis of Los Angeles successful California, wherever an migration crackdown has triggered protests and clashes for a 2nd day.

The White House said successful a connection connected Saturday that Trump was deploying the guardsmen to “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester” successful the state.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, objected to the determination and said successful a station connected X that the determination from the Republican president was “purposefully inflammatory and volition lone escalate tensions”.

During Saturday’s protests, national agents confronted dozens of protesters successful the Paramount country successful southeast Los Angeles, deploying teardrop state connected a thoroughfare strewn with overturned buying carts, arsenic the crowds called connected Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to permission their city.

Some of the protesters waved the emblem of Mexico and had their masks with respiratory masks.

The protests followed reports of continued migration raids adjacent a location betterment store successful the area.

There had been confrontations successful Los Angeles the nighttime earlier too, erstwhile ICE agents raided respective locations successful the metropolis and arrested astatine slightest 44 radical connected alleged migration violations.

Following the arrests, protesters gathered successful the evening extracurricular a national detention center, chanting, “Set them free, fto them stay!”

Some held signs with anti-ICE slogans, and immoderate scrawled graffiti connected the building.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass condemned the raids, said the moves were meant to “sow terror” successful the nation’s second-largest city.

Trump successful crook chided Newsom and Bass successful a station connected his Truth Social platform.

“If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t bash their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, past the Federal Government volition measurement successful and lick the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the mode it should beryllium solved!!!” helium wrote.

The migration crackdown is portion of Trump’s pledge to deport grounds numbers of radical successful the state illegally and fastener down the US-Mexico border. The White House has acceptable a extremity for ICE to apprehension astatine slightest 3,000 migrants per day.

But the sweeping migration crackdown has besides caught up radical legally residing successful the country, including immoderate with imperishable residence, and has led to ineligible challenges.

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