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The deployment of President Donald Trump of Troops and Marines of the National Guard to the streets of Los Angeles is not a distraction. It is a warning.

In the decade that has been at the Political Care Center, Trump has shown the desire to turn the United States into a police state, with him at the top. His signature policy priority is a mass deportation campaign directed by armed federal officers. He rejects any opposition to his orders as illegitimate or illegal, routinely asking the opponents and political reporters who are imprisoned. And previously I wanted to order the police and the military who triggered non -violent protesters.

In doing so, Trump believes himself leading a domestic war against internal enemies. His sponsors have been explicit about this, as well as the description of the official of the State Department of Michael Anton of the Trump 2016 campaign as similar to the passengers of flight 93 that assault the cabin to detain the terrorists of Al-Qaeda on September 11 or the call of the vice president JD Vance for a ba’athification process such as that the United States’ Sadhing Sadthing Hussein.

Trump’s second term in office is based on this desire to fight war to the US people in an effort to bury the liberal order of the twentieth century. To do this, it quickly opened a turn to the autocracy with attacks against each element of civil society, of law firms, non -profit organizations, universities, the press, civil service, its critics and its political opponents in the Democratic Party. These attacks took the form of threats, extortion and research.

Now, in Los Angeles, those threats are now being made since the end of a barrel.

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By deploying the military to suppress the American people, threatens to protest their effectively illegal policies. The protests are still ongoing, but now they face the spectrum of the president’s orders or the Secretary of Defense to suppress them strongly. The situation in the field, as local officials have said repeatedly, does not guarantee this reaction. On the other hand, this effort, which operates under a doubtful legal and constitutional authority, aims to inflame the situation to scare the public, suppress criticism and demonstrate that any challenge to Trump’s government will encounter the threat or reality of violence. This is how you see Trump’s post-constitutional moment.

The trig of Trump’s war against the American people is their mass deportation campaign, whose objective is to eliminate the more than 13 million undocumented immigrants in the country, as well as many legal immigrants and children US citizens of undocumented immigrants. This is issued as a civilizational struggle against a “migrant invasion”, similar to a military attack by a foreign state, led by “foreign terrorist organizations”, which is “poisoning the blood of our country.”

“We have been saying for years that this is a struggle to save civilization. Anyone can see that now,” on White House Cabinet Subdirector, Stephen Miller, published on social networks on Sunday.

But if this is a war, who is the true opposite force?

Despite saying repeatedly that it would only attack the hardened criminals for deportation, Trump has turned the federal government with undocumented and legal immigrants, including workers, families, students and children, in all areas. Any opposition to this, or effort to help attacked, has also met repression. The Trump Department of Justice has already accused a mayor, a congressman and a judge of crimes related to the application of immigration. In summary, he has turned his war agenda against the Americans themselves.

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This national repression intensified before the protests in Los Angeles after Miller, the architect of Trump’s deportation campaign, according to reports, increased deportation fees for ICE and scolded officials there for focusing only on deporting criminals.

“What do you mean that you are looking for criminals?” Miller asked ICE leaders, according to Washington’s examiner. Instead, he demanded that they assault Home Depots and 7-Elevens to gather undocumented immigrants looking for daytime work. Miller pressed ICE officials to deport at least 3,000 people per day and threatened that those who do not comply with the quotas will be fired.

This is what deactivated protests in Los Angeles. ICE officers attacked two starting deposits and other sites in military -style raids on June 6.

“They were just grabbing people,” a witness told Washington Post. “They don’t ask questions. They didn’t know if any of us were in some kind of immigration process.”

Small protests followed that day and then grew on June 7 in response to the repression of ice and the police the night before and in the midst of rumors of more ice rates. The protesters gathered outside the ICE facilities in the County, which led to arrests, including that of David Huerta, the head of the Los Angeles Chapter of the International Union of Service Employees. Some protesters threw objects (rocks, bottles, concrete) to police officers and erected improvised barricades in the streets, and an autonomous car caught fire.

Although the Los Angeles police claimed that he had the situation under control, Trump issued a memorandum that federated the California National Guard that night, while Miller described the protests as a “violent insurrection.”

Like many actions taken by Trump in his second term, that memorandum federalizes the Guard for strange legal reasons through a novel and questionable use of the existing law. It is based on a statute that has only been invoked in conjunction with the insurrection law, which allows the military to operate at the national level under certain rare circumstances, in response to domestic disorder. He also marked the first time since 1965 that a president federalized the troops in this way about the opposition of a governor, when President Lyndon Johnson invoked him to protect the historic Selma to Montgomery March in Alabama. And the statute only authorizes the president to deploy National Guard troops, not the Marines, as Trump has done.

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Technically, the National Guard troops are only authorized to protect federal properties and functions when they unfold under this law. That is much more restricted than they could do under the insurrection law, which would allow the military to participate in functions of the National Police. However, the Administration, in its search to suppress the protests, seems to want this statute to work as the insurrection law would not invoke the law.

The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, sent a letter to the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, on June 6, asking him to order the military who stop or stop the “breakwater” despite the fact that the statute invoked Trump does not authorize the military to act as a force of the domestic police, According to San Francisco Chronicle. In doing so, Noem issued the need for this action as if the government was involved in a war.

“We need … Support to our agents and agents of the law … As they defend themselves against invasive, violent and insurrectionist mobs that seek to protect the invaders and military men who belong to identified foreign terrorist organizations and that seek to avoid the deportation of criminal foreigners,” Noem wrote.

This language of domestic war is the essence of Trumpism and the signature policy of its second term. See the final goal, the purge of disadvantaged racial and cultural groups and ideas, based on the primary need that allows the means of violation and violations of the Constitution.

But the end and the media are the same. Trump and his assistants want to end the liberal order that was favorably seen on immigration, supported civil rights laws, aimed to create a more egalitarian economy and sought to expand the rights of life, freedom and the search for happiness for those who denied them previously. Mass deportation can be an end in itself, but it is also the means to Crush the liberal order and impose an autocratic police state.

The protest is the main means to counteract Trump’s autocratic turn. And so, Los Angeles has become a test field for their effort to use force to prevent the opposition from spreading.