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

The confrontation between Donald Trump and the progressive state of California reached a new high point on Sunday, after the President had sent the National Guard to Los Angeles unsolicited to divert oppositions against evictions. With the use of Marines against American demonstrators, the Defense Minister threatens if the violence continues “. 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 on Saturday at a hardware store in the nearby town of Paramount. The actions were filmed and immediately attracted demonstrators, some of whom sought confrontation with ICE and local law enforcement officers.

Masked rioters later threw off with stones and bottles and striked fire bombs at the ICE detention center in the center of Los Angeles. 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 was arrested for violence and obstruction, including a prominent trade union leader. He and others were injured in the disturbances.

The Los Angeles police form a cordon to shield detainees from protesters in Compton, a suburb of LA. Photo Barbara Davidson/Reuters

Trump seized the unrest on Saturday to seek the 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 with their own supporters in a clash with the other, as they did when La was plagued in January by devastating natural fires. A conflict about migration suits them both well.

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 in the last sixty years exclusively at the request of governors who need extra manpower. 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 calls on not to use residents, because Trump then gets his way.

The first few hundred reservists arrive on Sunday. Whether they contribute to law enforcement is not clear on Sunday evening, but at least de-escalating their presence does not work. The political fuss on both sides has only caused the protests to swell and under the new growth of thousands of demonstrators are also more people who are out of chaos. Images of barricades, set fire to self -driving taxis and a man who is waving with a Mexican flag on a burnt -out car, cross the world. It is the riot police of Los Angeles himself who tries to keep them in line.

Diversion

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 the migration police 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 a man who had been released unlawfully 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, 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, especially from Latin America, 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 opponents of Trumps policy are taking to the streets en masse to resist Ice. They do that with signs with the text „Ice out of la“And flags of Latin American countries and Palestine. What proves for the Trump government that their loyalty is not American.

Tension

Trump had often threatened with 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. Neither of the people who use the protests for anarchist violence. Governor Newsom officially objects to the deployment of the National Guard on Sunday. “Before Trump got involved, we had no problem,” he writes. Whether he had no problem is debatable, but now the situation in Los Angeles certainly seems to be more difficult to calm down than before the weekend.

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