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Trump deploys National Guard to Los Angeles for immigration protests

In World
June 08, 2025

The border patrol of the United States and protesters face after a raid was carried out by immigration and customs control near an illegal immigrants in Paramount, California, on June 6, 2025.

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President Donald Trump signed an order to deploy 2,000 members of the National Guard in response to immigration protests in Los Angeles, the White House said the night.

Trump’s order is produced in the midst of the continuous clashes between protesters and federal agents that execute immigration application actions in Los Angeles, which has led to more than 100 judgments.

“In recent days, violent mobs have attacked ICE officers and federal law enforcement agents who carry out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California,” said the press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, in a statement.

Leavitt told NBC News that Trump is Federal of the California National Guard that he would otherwise inform Governor Gavin Newsom. Presidents have the authority to do so in limited circumstances.

Newsom criticized Trump’s movement, describing it as “intentionally inflammation” and said that “only tensions will increase.”

“Los Angeles authorities can access the application assistance of the law at one time,” Newsom wrote in X. “We are in close coordination with the city and the county, and there is currently a Nobet need.”

“This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust,” he said.

The White House on Saturday showed signs that he prepared to decline the situation.

On the contrary, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth threatened to display US marines in addition to the members of the National Guard.

“If violence continues, Marines will also mobilize active duty at Camp Pendleton; they are on a maximum alert,” he published in X.

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Trump in a publicly written social networks: “If Governor Gavin Newscum, or California, and Mayor Karen Bass, or Los Angeles, cannot do their job, what everyone knows that they cannot, then the federal government will intervene and resolve the” disturbances and looters “” “”

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The White House also published a formal memorandum of the president to the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General and Secretary of National Security.

“To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of laws, constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the United States government,” the memorandum approached.

“In the light of these incidents and credible threats of continuous violence, by authority

Vice President JD Vance described the “insurrectionist” protesters in an X publication.

“Insurrectionists who transport foreign flags are attacking immigration agents, while half of the United States political leadership has decided that the border application is evil,” Vance wrote.

The Labor leader, David Huerta, president of the Seiu California, was injured on Friday when he was arrested while watching the protests. The National Security Department claimed that Huerta was “obstructing” federal officers.