US President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles after days of unrest caused by immigration raids on undocumented migrants in California.
The violent clashes between Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) agents and protesters have progressively worsened since the
raids commenced.
The raids have resulted in at least 118 arrests in the city
this week, including 44 on Friday.
A White House statement said “violent mobs have attacked ICE
Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation
operations in Los Angeles, California”.
The statement also accused California’s leaders of
abdicating their responsibility to protect citizens.
Speaking on his Truth Social platform, Trump described Gavin
Newsom, California governor, and Karen Bass, LA mayor, as “incompetent”.
He said the federal government “will step in and solve the
problem … the way it should be solved”.
Newsom, however, condemned the deployment of the National
Guard, describing it as “cruel and purposefully inflammatory”.
The California governor warned that the deployment would
only “escalate tensions”.
“Continued chaotic federal sweeps, across California, to
meet an arbitrary arrest quota are as reckless as they are cruel,” he said.
The National Guard is the oldest unit of the United States
army.
The guard responds to domestic emergencies, natural
disasters, counterdrug efforts, and reconstruction missions — often at the
request of state governors.
This is the first time a US president has assumed control of
the National Guard since the LA riots of 1992 which was triggered by the
beating of Rodney King by four White police officers.
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