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U.S. President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops contempt the Governor's objections to Los Angeles implicit wherever protests connected Saturday (June 7, 2025) led to clashes betwixt migration authorities and demonstrators.
The White House said successful a connection connected Saturday that Mr. Trump was deploying the Guardsmen to “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester” successful California.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, objected to the determination and said successful a station connected X that the determination from the Republican President was “purposefully inflammatory and volition lone escalate tensions.”
Federal agents clashed with aggravated crowds successful a Los Angeles suburb arsenic protests stretched into a 2nd nighttime Saturday, shooting flash-bang grenades and shutting portion of a freeway amid raids connected undocumented migrants, reports said.
The standoff took spot successful Paramount, wherever demonstrators had gathered adjacent a Home Depot that was being utilized arsenic a staging country by national migration officials, the Fox 11 news outlet reported.
They were met by national agents successful state masks, who lobbed flash-bang grenades and teardrop state astatine the crowd, according to quality reports and societal media posts.
Since taking bureau successful January, Republican Trump has delivered connected a committedness to ace down hard connected the introduction and beingness of undocumented migrants — who helium has likened to “monsters” and “animals.”
Roadblocks and chants
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said aggregate arrests had been made pursuing Friday’s clashes. “You bring chaos, and we’ll bring handcuffs. Law and bid volition prevail,” helium said connected X.
On Saturday, amid chants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to get out, immoderate protestors waved Mexican flags portion others acceptable a US emblem connected fire, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Cement blocks and overturned buying carts served arsenic crude roadblocks.
A assemblage swarmed a US Marshals Service autobus exiting a adjacent freeway, with authorities aboriginal closing connected and disconnected ramps to support protesters from taking implicit the road and to halt caller radical from flowing in.
The White House has taken a hard enactment against the protests, with lawman main of unit Stephen Miller calling them “an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.”
(With inputs from AFP, AP)
Published - June 08, 2025 07:41 americium IST
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