Trump is looking for an excuse for escalation, says the Californian governor. Protests in Los Angeles
The National Guard has 325,000 soldiers.
Los Angeles, BRATISLAVA. US President Donald Trump On Saturday he sent two thousand soldiers of the National Gar-Dy to those neighborhoods of Los Angeles, where mass protests broke out.
Mostly Latin American citizens of the US, California, went to the streets on Friday after the extensive raid of federal immigration and customs office agents (Ice) led to detaining 44 people.
The arrest is part of the intervention of Trump’s administration against immigration, which also includes disputed deportations to the prison in Salvador.
The cops they deployed on Friday with demonstrators according to the diary The Guardian They dug cans with tear gas from side to side, both groups in most cases remained at a safe distance.
TV CNN However, she said that of a few hundred protesters, a handful was bloody after the intervention by rubber projectiles that the police shoot. A few demonstrators attacked with fireworks or moleot cocktails.
« The fact that the federal government has taken control of the California National Guard without requesting a governor to suppress protests is really scary, » he told the daily The New York Times Attorney Erwin Chemerinsky. « He uses an army within the country to stop dissent. »
The police arrested one person and detained several other people, with two police officers suffered injuries according to US authorities.
Units of California’s National Guard have already arrived in Los Angeles, TV reports BBC With the fact that they are currently gathering in front of the detention center in the city center, where immigrants are weighed.
Any demonstration that would hinder the Ice federal agent will be considered a « form of rebellion », Trump said. California leaders condemned Razie. Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles, said Ice’s activity is to « sow terror » in the second largest city of the state.
In the article you can read:
- that the Democrats warned against the deployment of the units of the National Guard,
- Why is the use of the law questionable,
- When the National Guard troops were created.
Cruel raid
Trump has taken advantage of the law imposing the power of the US President’s power to federalize the National Guard troops to suppress any uprising, domestic violence, unlawful association or conspiracy.
« The unscrupulous Californian democratic leaders have completely resigned their responsibility for the protection of their citizens, » said Karoline Leavitt, a white house press secretary who also indicated that demonstrators who interfere with the work of Federal ICE agents will arrest.
Before Trump’s efforts to deploy the units of the National Guard on American soil, especially in areas managed by Democrats, the Democratic Party has been warning for several months.
In the past, the US president often criticized the Governor of the State Minnesot for not doing enough to suppress the protests that broke out after killing George Floyd, who died in 2020, when the arresting police officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes and stewed him.
Trump later made it clear that he would not be reluctant in the future before using the units of the National Guard.
The deployment of National Guard soldiers is usually controlled by governors, but Trump’s administration of California’s Governor Gavin Newsom, who belongs to the Democratic Party, bypassed over the weekend. « The federal government sowing chaos to have an excuse for escalation, » News said.
Demonstrations against ICE come at a time when Trump’s administration is pushing for an additional increase in the number of arrested immigrants in the United States. Trump allegedly proposes up to three thousand arrests a day.
Ice has detained up to 118 people in Los Angeles in recent days. According to the Governor of California, this is a cruel raid.
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Questionable use of the law
The National Guard states on its website that it responds, for example, to domestic emergencies, foreign combat missions, combating drugs or reconstruction missions.
The deployment of units of the National Guard was used in various emergencies including a pandemic coronavirushurricanes and other natural disasters.
The law to which Trump’s statement is currently referred to by The Guardian He says that orders are issued through the governors of the states, so it is not immediately clear whether the US President can activate the National Guard troops without the Governor of the State.
Also, according to the website of the National Guard soldiers on the spot, they usually work with the consent of the governors of the relevant states.
CNN He explains that the US President has now used the activation of the National Guard for the first time since 1992, when the Los Angeles broke out the riot in response to the liberation of four white police officers accused of brutal attack by the black driver of Rodney King. At that time, former US President George Hw Bush federalized the units of the National Guard.
However, analyst Elizabeth Goitein from the Brennan Center for Justice, she specifies that this is the first time since 1965, which the US President has activated the national guard of the state without the request of the governor of the state. The last time this happened when former US President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators, she told for The New York Times.
The oldest military forces
The history of the National Guard troops dates back to the establishment of the United States themselves – namely until 1636, when the legislative choir of the Massachusette Gulf colony ordered the creation of three militias to protect its interests.
The three regiments also come today’s troops of the National Guard of the Army of the State of Massachusetts, which are considered the oldest military forces of the US Armed Forces.
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After joining the service, newcomers will take ten weeks of basic training and then four to nine weeks of specialized training.
After training, soldiers usually serve one weekend a month and two weeks a year. Among the units of the National Guard, people usually operate from three to eight years. Currently, the units of the National Guard consist of 325,000 soldiers.
