Los Angeles. Chaos in protests against immigration Rusas
The city of Los Angeles has been the scene of violent clashes between police and protesters against the White House anti-immigration policies. It all started on Friday night, when police triggered an operation against illegal immigration in various locations in the city. It is recalled that, in recent weeks, Donald Trump’s government has introduced several changes in the operation of the immigration and customs service, wanting to enforce the promise of mass deports and promoting more arrests. And it didn’t take many for activists if they started moving against the operation, leaving the street in protest.
On Saturday night, the US President ordered the mobilization of 2,000 National Guard military personnel for Los Angeles County and authorized the Defense Department to mobilize “any other members of the regular armed forces” to protect the action of federal forces, according to a statement published on the White House website. This was the first time in 60 years that a US president mobilized the National Guard of a state without the authorization of the responsible governor. As a rule, these military forces serve to provide assistance in disaster cases.
Since then the confrontations that started peacefully, climbed: cars have been set on fire, vandalized and looted stores, journalists hit with rubber bullets, police using flash-bang grenades and pepper gas, the disorders caused the 101 free of charge to report, according to BBC. The protests have already resulted in the detention of dozens of protesters.
To MSNBCE, California Governor Gavin Newsom said he asked Trump’s administration to remove the two thousand elements of the city’s National Guard and considered the decision “illegal”, so he plans to process the administration. « Local police didn’t need help. Trump has sent troops at the same to make chaos and violence, » wrote the official on social network. « Now things are destabilized and we need to send more strength to clean Trump’s confusion, » he lamented. « This is a serious violation of state sovereignty: inflammating tensions and removing resources from where they are really needed, » said in another publication. However, Trump maintains his position, stating that « violent and insurrect crowds are invading and attacking federal agents. »
