US west coast: escalating the location in Los Angeles?

The state of emergency in the center of the US west coast metropolis of Los Angeles is reflected on this Tuesday night in the void of its streets. The surrounding area around the federal prison in the city center is largely empty, but there are occasional demonstrators and the emergency services.

The city of the city at the Pacific has reached a drastic measure: In the evening, an outcome lock for parts of the city center is to prevent any protests against US President Donald Trump, the soldiers sent by him and the procedure of the ICE immigration authority.

Some people appear out of the dark, behind them a rider relay, over their heads a helicopter with search light. Suddenly a bang echoes over the first street. The demonstrators take cover in front of the police’s rubber floors.

Since Friday, people in Los Angeles, in which almost a million people live without valid papers, have been protesting against the intimidating raids of the authorities. Mostly peaceful, but few exceptions worldwide cause a stir: burning cars, stone throws on police cars, the occupation of a highway. The fear that the situation will continue to escalate is in the air. There are also protests in other cities such as New York or Chicago.

A further intolerance in LA could be politically located after turbulent days. While the Republican with Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House ate Steak in the White House last week, his friendship with men imploded with multi -illiator Elon Musk in front of the country’s eyes. The exchange of blows resulted in the fact that Musk moved the president (without evidence) close to the abuse of minors.

Unusually, Trump refrained from a devastating counter-strike: a persistent, open hostility with the most richest man in the world could take the swing of Trump’s radical conversion of the US company. And a president who cannot hold his own coalition together looks weak. Trump can now show strength in LA. And he does.

A million without a residence permit

Trump promised the greatest mass deportations in US history. Millions of people, mostly from Latin America, have been tolerated for decades, but without a residence permit in the country. In Los Angeles alone – that also bears the Hispanic identity in the name – it should be almost a million.

Trump fueled fear of them and her alleged criminal energy in the election campaign. He gets a lot of approval for his hard line, even if studies refute his claim that migrants would drive up the number of crimes. But the narrative keeps up – and complete chaos in LA would seem to only confirm Trump.

Many of the “illegal”, as the government calls it, fear the state power that Trump unleashed: hooded ICE people appear in unobtrusive cars on construction sites in Florida and New Orleans or in front of hardware stores in New York and Los Angeles and arrest people without papers. The deportation threatens. But fear also grows with inhuman treatment.

Everyday life only on the surface – Los Angeles in a state of emergency

For days, sometimes thousands – have gathered in front of the federal prison, where they suspect arrested migrants. Here and in other places there were occasional clashes. Among the protesters: many with Latin American roots, liberal trump opponents-and after darkness, increasingly rioters, who apparently drives the desire to violence.

Even if life in the middle of the metropolis seems to be largely normal during the day, not only the numerous abuse against Trump and ICE on the walls in the city center indicate the state of emergency. Autobahn descents to the quarter around the prison are closed, hotels distribute safety plans to their guests. The city is currently preparing for the next night every day.

Power test between Trump and Newsom?

Trump mobilized thousands of soldiers from the national guard and hundreds of marine fans against the will of the democratic governor Gavin Newsom. The great concern is that the troops could finally lead to the chaos that Trump had previously conjured up. The situation is also seen as a test of power: How far can Trump expand his authority in liberal California?

Newsom, which presidential ambitions are said to, accuses the President of provoking a “civil war on the streets of America”. In an evening television speech that sounds like the application for the highest office in the state, the 57-year-old Trump’s behavior gives an attack on freedom. And California is only the first victim. “Other states are next to it. Democracy is next.”

“The government is going crazy. And our governor plays with”

Some people in the city, on the other hand, flee in such words and smell a second mighty men. “The government is going crazy. And our governor plays along, and all of that only makes it worse,” says a woman who works in the city center during a car rental.

In the meantime, some American media heat up the situation: The propaganda-friendly right-wing conservative moderator Laura Ingraham lets Trump’s house-and-yard broadcaster Fox News in her evening show the most blatant scenes of Los Angeles in a quick episode. This creates the impression that something is completely out of hand in the US show metropolis.

At the other end of the country, the New Yorker Susan looks at Ingraham’s show in a bar at JFK Airport. “These damn idiots burn the whole city!”, She is outraged. If you ask her, she admits that she also does not know whether Trump’s soldiers are the right means. But light cars, throw stones on police officers? That must be punished.

It is exactly the scenes that Trump, who has always been a pioneer for law and order, and give its movement new strength. The President senses a political victory and new energy in American cultural struggle. He has already won a success: Nobody talks about Elon Musk anymore. How high the price for this is will be shown.