Los Angeles: Donald Trump again sends over 2000 soldiers

Four days after the beginning of violent riots in Los Angeles in the course of the arrests of migrants, US President Donald Trump has expanded the military presence in the California metropolis. On Monday (local time), according to the Pentagon, Trump ordered the deployment of further 2000 members of the National Guard and 700 marine fans. California’s governor Gavin Newsom called Trump a “dictatorial president” who wanted to sow “chaos”.

Trump had already ordered the posting of 2000 soldiers from the National Guard to Los Angeles on Saturday against the express will of Newsom and the city administration. Now the president followed. “At the President’s instruction, the Department of Defense mobilizes an additional 2,000 members of the California National Guard,” said Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell on Monday in the online service X.

According to Parnell, the national guards should “support the immigration authority” and enable federal police officers to carry out their tasks safely “. The National Guard is a military reserve unit and part of the US armed forces.

Previously on Monday, Trump also ordered 700 soldiers of the elite unit US marines to Los Angeles. In view of the increasing threats to federal officials and federal buildings, the marine fans “in the active service” were sent to Los Angeles to protect the city from Camp Pendleton “, a government representative told the AFP news agency. The marine fans were expected in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

The posting of active military members such as the marine fan fantry into a city is a highly unusual step. After demonstrating cars set fire to demonstrators on Sunday and looting business. The protests had been triggered by the procedure of federal officials against migrants.

As a result of the violent protests, there were a total of 56 arrests over two days in Los Angeles. Five police forces were also slightly injured. However, 60 people were arrested in protests in the California city of San Francisco. In New York and in the Texas capital Austin, there were also disputes between demonstrators and the police, and several people were taken into custody in New York.

California’s governor Newsoma denied Trump’s order. “The US Marine Fanters have served honestly to defend democracy in several wars,” said the Democrat at X. “They should not be used on the American soil, where they face their own compatriots to fulfill the mentally disturbed imagination of a dictatorial president.” This is “un -American”.

After the pentagon’s announcement, newsoma immediately followed up for the posting of other national guards. He accused Trump of sowing “chaos” in Los Angeles. Previously, Newsom had announced a lawsuit against Trump for the unpunished posting of the National Guard.

On Monday, Trump had blamed “professional agitators and insurgents” for clashes on the edge of demonstrations and threatened with an even harder procedure. “The people who cause these problems are professional agitators and insurgents,” said Trump in front of reporters in the White House. “These are bad people, they should be in prison.”

Later the US president said that he “does not want civil war”. However, it would “take place a civil war if you leave it to people like him,” he said with a view to Governor Newsom. He also showed the stimulation of his border protection officer Tom Homan to have newsoma arrested. This would be “great”.

The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the shelling of an Australian journalist with a rubber floor at the protests in Los Angeles. “We find it unacceptable that this has happened and think that the role of the media is particularly important,” said Albanese. According to recordings, the journalist was recognizable as a press representative.

The protests in Los Angeles were triggered on Friday by the increased approach of the immigration authority ICE against migrants. They are directed against Trump’s rigid migration policy, which aims at mass deportation from immigrants.