In response to rising anti-immigration protests and a symbiotic relationship with the US, National Guard troops began their immigration raids early on Sunday, arriving in Los Angeles on US President Donald Trump’s strong orders. The California National Guard was sent by Trump without Governor Gavin Newsom’s approval, according to the New York Times, and this was the first move in this direction since 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the Guard that year to guard protesters for civil rights in Alabama. The order, according to Newsom, is a use of defense power that undermines public trust.” This move is deliberately aggressive and will only rise tensions,” Newsom said. Eventually, he afterwards remarked on X that the federal government wanted a spectacle. Don’t grant them one. Not engage in physical terrorism. In Taylor and downtown Los Angeles, where protests had gotten worse after federal immigration officials carried out extensive raids, arresting over 100 individuals in predominantly Latino neighborhoods, helmeted troops carrying long guns and traveling in armored vehicles were seen, according to news agency AFP. On Friday and Saturday, fights broke out between federal officials in Paramount and Compton, with police officers aiming tear gas and flash-bang bombs at protesters. In Compton, a rebel carrying a Mexican flag protested outside a burned-out vehicles with anti-ICE slogans painted on the windshield. Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security for the US, claimed on CBS ‘ Face the Nation that” The National Guard are specifically trained for this type of crowd situation.” US defense minister Pete Hegseth also issued a warning that Camp Pendleton’s active-duty Marines were on higher alert and could be deployed if the conflict escalated. Trump defended the national activation of the Guard under Title 10, USC 12406, which allows for implementation if there is a “rebellion” against national power. His law states that” to the extent that demonstrations or acts of violence instantly impede the enforcement of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion.” However, some people view the action as being excess. According to The New York Times,” for the federal government to take control of the California National Guard, without the governor’s ask, is really chilling.” Speaking on CNN, California Congresswoman Nanette Barragan claimed that the presidency was attempting to thwart quiet demonstrations. ” We have an management that’s targeting quiet demonstrations,” the statement read. The leader is sending the National Guard because he dislikes the views, according to Republican leaders, who supported Trump’s activities. House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed concerns over Newsom’s performance on ABC’s This Year, blaming him for having” an inability or unwillingness to do what is required.” He continued,” Western-style deployments” were not “heavy-handed,” as Trump had suggested. In Washington, DC, military planes were used to disperse protesters who were protesting police violence in 2020. Protests continued into Sunday night outside federal buildings and close to the Metropolitan Detention Centre, according to news organization AP. Officials in Paramount erected barbed wire to stop group surges, while police in some places declared unlawful meetings and made prosecutions. The 24-year-old activist Ferrando Delgado, who was quoted by AFP as saying,” These are hardships. Senator Bernie Sanders wrote on X,” Conduct large illegal raids. Create a counterresponse. Declare a state of emergency. Calling in the army was intolerable despite the backlash, a CBS News surveys conducted prior to the unrest revealed that a small percentage of Americans also voted in favor of Trump’s immigration assault.
