National Guard troops that protect ice agents while making arrests in Los Angeles
Los Angeles (AP) – The National Guard troops began to protect immigration agents while making arrests in Los Angeles on Tuesday, an expansion of their duties that had limited themselves to protecting federal property.
Photos published Tuesday by the US Immigration and Customs Program. UU. Show of the National Guard Guard Guard around the officers while making arrests.
ICE said in a statement that the troops were “providing perimeter and personal protection for our facilities and officers that are in daily application operations.” The change approaches troops closer to participating in actions to apply the law as deportations as Trump has promised.
American officials said early Tuesday that guard members were authorized to provide protection and safe streets and perimeters around areas where application actions occur. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, said that the members of the guard do not participate in any of the compliance actions, but provided security in the missions in the Los Angeles area.
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, on Tuesday requested a federal court that prevented the Trump administration from using the National Guard and the Marines to help with immigration raids in Los Angeles, saying that it would only increase tensions.
Newsom filed the emergency application after President Donald Trump ordered the deployment to approximately 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines after protests in the application of immigration laws of the president of the President. The demonstrations in the city of 4 million people have focused largely on the center.
The Marines were not seen in the streets yet, while the National Guard troops so far have had a limited commitment to protesters.
The federal government said that Newsom was looking for an unprecedented and dangerous order to interfere with its ability to carry out application operations. A judge set a hearing for Thursday.
The governor’s request said it was in response to a change in orders for the members of the Guard, which were originally deployed to protect federal buildings. Judicial documents say that sending troops in immigration raids would only increase tensions and promote civil disturbances.
The Marines and another 2,000 Troops of the National Guard were sent to Los Angeles on Monday, which adds to a military presence that local officials and news do not want and that the police chief says that it is more difficult to handle protests safely.
Marines’ general, Eric Smith, said Tuesday that the Marines deployed in the area had not yet been called to respond to the protests and that they were only there to protect federal officials and property.
The Marines were trained for the control of the crowd, but they have no arrest authority, Smith said a budget hearing in Capitol Hill.
Photo by Hans Gutknecht/Medakews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images
Trump says he is open to use the insurrection law
Trump left open the possibility of invoking the insurrection law, which authorizes the president to deploy military forces within the United States to suppress rebellion or domestic violence or enforce the law in certain situations. It is one of the most extreme emergency powers available for a president of the United States.
“If there is an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it. We’ll see,” he said from the Oval office.
Later, the president called “animals” and “a foreign enemy” in a speech in Fort Bragg apparently to recognize the 250th anniversary of the United States army.
Trump has described Los Angeles in terrible terms that Mayor Karen Bass and Newsom say they are not close to the truth.
The protests began on Friday after federal immigration raids arrested dozens of workers in Los Angeles. The protesters blocked an important highway and set fire to the cars during the weekend, and the police responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-base grenades.
The demonstrations have been much less stridents since then. Thousands of people have recovered peacefully outside the City Council and hundreds more protested outside a federal complex that includes a detention center where some immigrants are detained after the raids in the workplace.
Los Angeles police said they made more than 100 arrests on Monday night, mainly for not disperse the center. A person was arrested by assault with a mortal weapon, and two police offers were injured, the department said.
Several companies were divided, although the authorities did not say if the looting was linked to the protests. Nejdeh Avedian, general manager of the St. Vincent jewelry center in the Los Angeles jewelry district, said that the protesters had already left, and “these guys were only opportunists”, although St. Vincent had armed himself and stayed alone.
The National Security Assistant Secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement on Tuesday that the protesters have thrown rocks and cocktails of Molotov in the application of the law, set fire to vehicles, the disfigured buildings and the public property and set fire to the US flags.
On Tuesday, a few dozen protesters gathered peacefully against the Federal Complex, which quickly declared an illegal assembly. The police issued a dispersion order and cornered protesters, telling the members of the media to stay out to avoid hurting. Tirolesase officers began to arrest.
The obscene slogans directed to Trump and the application of the federal law remained scribbled in several buildings. In the Walt Disney concert hall, the workers were busy washing the graffiti on Tuesday.
In near Santa Ana, armored guard vehicles blocked a road that leads to federal immigration and government offices.
Sending in the Army is the last step in the repression of immigration of the administration when Trump pursues the mass deportations he promised last year during the presidential campaign.
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, suggested on Tuesday that the use of troops within the United States will continue to expand.
“I think we are entering another phase, especially under President Trump with his focus on the homeland, where the National Guard and reserves become a critical component of how we ensure that homeland,” he said in Capitol Hill.
Photo by Hans Gutknecht/Medakews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images
Los Angeles officials say the police do not need help
The mayor and the governor say that Trump is putting public security at risk by adding military personnel even though the police say they do not need help.
Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said he trusted the capacity of the police department to manage the demonstrations and that the arrival of the marines without coordinating with the police would present a “significant logistics and operational challenge.”
The demonstrations have spread to other cities throughout the country, including San Francisco, as well as Dallas and Austin, Texas.
Los Angeles’s response takes the stage in Capitol Hill
The Pentagon said that deploying the National Guard and the Marines costs $ 134 million. The Secretary of Defense said the troops are necessary to protect federal agents.
Meanwhile, the Democratic members of the Delegation of the California Congress accused the president on Tuesday of creating a “crisis manufactured.”
On Monday, the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, filed a lawsuit on the use of National Guard troops, seeking to stop the deployment.
Trump said the city would have been “completely erased” if the guard had not deployed.
The deployment seemed to be the first time in decades that the National Guard of a State was activated without a request from its governor, a significant escalation against those who have tried to hinder the mass deportation efforts of the administration.
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Baldor and Copp reported from Washington. The writers of News Dorany Pineda in Los Angeles, Amy Taxin in Orange County, California, John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, Jim Vertuno in Austin, Texas and Greg Bull in Seal Beach, California, contributed to this report.