Recommendations of the Editorial team
US President Donald Trump demanded that Use of the military against protests against the immigration and customs authority (ICE) in Los Angeles, California. The protests, which began to respond to ICE raids at various jobs on Friday, escalated over the weekend. Trump had previously ordered 2,000 national guards to the city. Against the resistance of Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom, both Democrats.
“Looks really bad in LA brings the troops !!!”, Trump wrote on Truth on Truth early Monday morning. In another contribution, the President demanded that the law enforcement authorities “arrest people with facial masks, now!”
Marines on willingness, escalation threatens
The US Northern Command published an explanation on Sunday, in which it was said that “approximately 500 marines of the 2nd battalion, 7. Marines from Twentynine Palms, California, are in standby status.
The president’s call to use the military against US citizens-a power that has no longer been used by no President since the Rodney King turking in Los Angeles in 1992-would be a serious escalation of the state participation in the. What local authorities describe as manageable, albeit violent protest outbreak.
Support of Republicans and Trump allies
Some Republican legislators and civil servants from the Trump government expressed their support for the use of military personnel in California. On Sunday evening, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) Shared a screenshot of a controversial opinion article that he had written in 2020 and in which he called for the military operation against Black-Lives-Matter protests. Defense Minister Pete Hegseth wrote on Sunday evening on social media that “If violence continues, active marines are also mobilized on the Marine Base Camp Pendleton. They are highest alert.”
Goal: Sanctuary Cities
The President and his government have targeted Los Angeles and several other so-called “Sanctuary Cities”-cities and other state or local jurisdiction that restrict their cooperation with the federal immigration enforcement-as places for publicity-effective ICE raids in migrant communities. The government claims to concentrate on criminals in its enforcement measures. Meanwhile, the reigning ICE director Tom Homan admitted on Monday that ICE also arrested migrants who happened to be at the scene of a target person. Including mothers, high school students and migrants who appear to be planned to be planned before the immigration court.
With the increasing intensity of the government’s enforcement measures, which are increasingly being outside of legal limits, Trump and his allies claim that protests against their increasingly authoritarian tactics represent an illegal disability of federal operations.
Trump: “LA is freed”
“A once big American city, Los Angeles, has been overrun and occupied by illegal immigrants and criminals. Now violent, insurgent mobs are enthusiastic and attacking our federal agents. Everything to stop our deportation measures,” wrote Trump on Sunday in a post that hardly corresponds to reality in the city. “The order is restored. The illegals are shown and Los Angeles is liberated.”
Mayor Bass: “A dangerous escalation”
In a press conference on Sunday, Mayor Bass said: “What we see in Los Angeles is chaos that the government provoked.”
“When you tear apart parents and children at Home Depot and at work. And if you send armored convoys through our streets, they cause fear and panic. And the use of federal troops is a dangerous escalation,” said Bass. “We have to be honest. This is about another agenda. Not about public security.”
Bass added that the city was still determined to protect the rights of the demonstrators after the first constitutional additive. However, that these legal protective measures “do not give them the right to be violent. To donate chaos. Or to damage property.”
Governor Newsom demands withdrawal of troops
Governor Newsom officially demanded that Trump take back his federalization of the National Guard on Sunday. And pulls it out of the city. “In dynamic and unpredictable situations such as the Los Angeles, state and local authorities are best suited to assess the need for resources to secure life and property. In fact, the decision to send the national guard without the appropriate training or instructions harbors the serious risk of massively escalating the situation,” he wrote.
“There is currently no need to use the National Guard in Los Angeles. And to do this in an illegal way and for such a long period of time, a serious violation of the sovereignty of the state, which apparently intentionally aims to heat the situation,” added Newsom.