Trump is looking for the confrontation with the powerful and progressive state by steering from National Guard for California

The confrontation between Donald Trump and the progressive state of California has reached a new highlight now that the President sends the National Guard to Los Angeles unsolicited to display protests against evictions. The Defense Minister threatens with the use of Marines against American demonstrators. It is no coincidence that the first physical showdown on Trumps deportation policy is now taking place in LA.

On Friday, the American federal immigration police ICE with coarse guns came in at various companies in the clothing district of LA. Heaviness, masked agents in camouflage suits were not looking for criminals there, but for random migrants who work there without a residence permit. People were also arrested at a hardware store in the nearby town of Paramount. The actions were filmed and immediately attracted protesters, some of whom are The confrontation was looking for With ICE and local law enforcement officers.

Masked rioters threw off improvised explosives at the ICE detention center in the inner city of Los Angeles with stones and stopped. Buildings and cars were set on fire. The riot police used tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets against the protesters. In addition to the more than one hundred migrants that ICE picked up this week, an unknown number of protesters has been arrested, including a prominent trade union leader. He and others were injured in the disturbances.

Trump has seized the unrest to seek confrontation with California again: the largest, richest and progressive state, which is also led by a democratic governor with presidential ambitions, Gavin Newsom. Both politicians score at their own supporters in a clash with the other, as they did when La was plagued by in January devastating natural fires.

Desired spectacle

On social media, Republican President Newsom and the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, accompanied incompetence and announced that he sends two thousand men from the National Guard to LA. These reservists are often used locally, but only in the last sixty years at the request of a governor. The last time they were forced up federally was in 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson, against the civil rights movement in Alabama.

According to Newsom, Trump throws “deliberate oil on the fire« And the military presence » will only escalate the tension.  » Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth even threatens to send Marines on the demonstrators: « They are ready« . A suggestion that Newsom calls » disturbed « . According to him, the Republicans do this « not because there is a shortage of law enforcement officers, but because they want spectacle. » The Democrat has called on residents not to use violence, because Trump then gets his way.

Trump has so far been able to make little sense of his promise of large -scale deportations. ICE arresting by no means the number of people he wants. A plan to give their more manpower, resources and detention capacity has not yet been adopted despite the Republican majority in the congress. Partly because the inflow of migrants has drastically reduced, Trump has been expanding fewer people on average in recent months than the border were transferred under Joe Biden.

Deportation flights with alleged criminals, who were locked up with a lot of tame in a notorious prison in El Salvador, have been stopped by order of the judge. Last week, the Trump government also resigned itself to a judgment of the Supreme Court and one of the men who had been turned off unlawfully recovered to the US. For example, Trump always gets a bak sail for the eyes of his voters.

With this lack of success and the open fight with Elon Musk Last week, his disturbances in Los Angeles and a conflict with Democrats there are ideal for Trump. Certainly because with his actions against migrants he can always put the entire Democratic party. To stand up for the rule of law and the right to demonstration, opposition politicians in imaging support mainly illegal immigrants, and now rioters.

LA is high on the list of so -called Sanctuary Cities That Trump wants to tackle anyway. Many democratically guided municipalities, including ‘Schuilstad’ LA, do not work with ICE to detect and arrest residents. Trump wants to purchase municipalities their federal tax money if they do not conform.

After Trumps took office, ICE first focused primarily on arresting illegally residing people with a criminal record, an outstanding punishment or a suspicion. Recently, the immigration police more often invades places where people who have done nothing else than cross the border without permission and work without a permit. In the border state of California, which has a lot of legal and illegal immigration, ICE does so in democratic cities where people work in construction and the hospitality industry. Not in the Republican countryside where they keep agriculture running.

After earlier small protests at courts and detention centers, Los Angeles is the first place where hundreds of people took to the streets to resist Ice. They do that with signs with the text „Ice out of laAnd flags of Latin American countries and Palestine.

Tension

Trump has often threatened military deployment against American citizens. During his first term, Trump suggested engaging the National Guard in the event of protests from the Black Lives Matter movement. When governors were not hungry, he wanted to send them in his own title. But he was prevented by his then Minister of Defense Mark Esper, who stated that such escalation can only be justified in the most urgent and serious situations. Trump ignored calls to send the reservists when his own supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

No tempering can be expected from the current Defense Minister Hegseeth. The first soldiers arrived in LA on Sunday morning. By the way after Trump them praise For a not yet existing „Job Well Done« In and around the city, it is tensioning how Sunday is going further. The use of the National Guard is shocked to take to the streets, or Trumps further involvement the enthusiasm for protest – and possibly violence – just up. At two o’clock in the afternoon a new demonstration has been announced in the center of the city.

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