The protests in Los Angeles They intensified after the president’s decision Donald Trump to send 700 Marines and 2000 additional troops from the National Guard To the city. The measure was announced Monday by the Pentagonin response to the manifestations that broke out in rejection of the Migration policies of the Republican government.
The military deployment began with the exit of Marines from Twentynine Palmsa base located in the southern desert of California. Shortly after, the Secretariat of Defense confirmed the mobilization of 2,000 additional members of the National guardwho joined the troops already present in Angelinas streets.
Thus, They totaled 4,000 agents In urban control operations, in a city convulsed by three consecutive days of protests. The demonstrations, which began after the massive raids against immigrants ordered by the Government, derived in confrontations and disturbances In different neighborhoods.
The questions to Donald Trump’s decision
The measure generated strong criticism on the local political level. The governor Gavin Newsom He questioned the decision hard: “The United States Marines have served honorably in multiple wars in defense of democracy. They should not be deployed on American soil facing their own compatriots to fulfill the insane fantasy of a dictatorial president. This is little American, ”he published in his account of X.
President Trump, on the other hand, ratified his hard line in front of the protesters. In statements released over the weekend, he warned: “If they spit, we will hit”, In direct allusion to those who mobilize against their deportation policy.
From Friday, various areas of Los Angeles remained in tension, with Repon and clashes between protesters and security forces. The protests pointed against the strategy of the Federal Executive, which included searches, arrests and massive operations in neighborhoods with a high migrant presence.
Donald Trump’s measures
The Head of State, of 78 yearspersonally ordered the deployment of the National guarda reserve force of the army, to reinforce security in the city. The decision was interpreted as a sample of force within the framework of its Presidency campaignl, in which he placed the migration theme again as one of the main axes.
From the American union for civil liberties (ACLU)the lawyer Hina Shamsi denounced: “It is an unnecessary climb and an abuse of power”The organization warned about the growing use of the army in police tasks, a controversial practice that resurfaces before each episode of social crisis.
Although during his first term in the White House (2017-2021) Trump He did not execute military operations on American soil, this time he decided to use his status as Commander in Chief to impose its immigration policy. According to its environment, the fight against illegal immigration It constitutes a defense of “civilization.”
Your advisor Stephen Miller He defended the hardening of measures with a series of publications in social networks. Sunday wrote: “Los Angeles is the proof that you need that mass migration undoes societies (…) If the problem of migration is not solved, nothing else can be solved or saved”
Monday deepened his position: “You believe it or not, California used to be a paradise” and “Mass migration has taken us where we are now”, In a clear allusion to the consequences of immigration policy on social coexistence in the State.
Meanwhile, mobilizations in Los Angeles They continued with a strong police and military presence. The protesters rejected both the raids and the use of the army to suppress the civilian population. The situation climbed to become a new focus of national conflict, with broad and social political repercussions.
Source: Ambito
