Trump sends U.S. Marines to join National Guard in Los Angeles
發佈日期: 2025-06-10 19:52
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U.S. President Donald Trump has sent Marines to join the National Guard in Los Angeles.
Anti-immigration policy protests continue with sporadic clashes between demonstrators and police.
The dispute is also playing out in the political sphere with California Governor Gavin Newsom suing the Trump administration for sending in troops.
In the dead of night, with no major trouble reported in Los Angeles, buses carrying 700 U.S. Marines sent from Twentynine Palms base in another part of California.
President Trump increasing military presence in the city which has seen clashes in recent days, but local officials and Governor Gavin Newsom don't want them.
Around the same time, cars on fire in streets but lawlessness not widespread in L.A.where much of the city carries on as normal.
As well as those Marines, another 2,000 National Guard troops are joining these already deployed.
Troops protecting federal buildings, with protests described as "less raucous" than previous days.
These guards, doing just that,law and order left to the police who say they can handle the situation amid fires and looting.
Mexican flags were evident after the government there said the vast majority of detained "illegal migrants" were from Mexico.
Demonstrators want Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions driven out of L.A.
The Democratic Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, says let local authorities deal with it, "It makes me feel like our city is actually a test case. A test case for what happens when the federal government moves in and takes the authority away from the state or away from local government.
U.S. President Donald Trump responded.
"It's lucky for the people in Los Angeles and in California that we did what we did. We got it just in time.It's still simmering a little bit, but not very much."
Governor Newsom says Trump's decision to send in the National Guard is illegal and is suing.
It is the first time the U.S. President has sent the National Guard without the governor's request since 1965.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta sets out his case: "They (the Trump Administration) threw caution to the wind and sidelined strategy in an unnecessary and inflammatory escalation that only further spurred unrest. Let's be very clear, there was no risk of rebellion, no threat of foreign invasion
It is the President that needs to put a mirror up to himself and realise that the unlawful actor here is him and his administration, not Governor Newsom.
The Trump administration threatened to arrest Newsom if the governor obstructs ICE operations.
Trump says Newsom is incompetent:" Cars burning all over the place, people rioting. And by the way, we stopped it. We were able to make it much better. But it still looked pretty bad. And in watching clips last night, people were saying this is really a big problem. And until we went in, if we didn't do the job, that place would be burning down just like the houses burned down."
Trump is sending more troops as he says law and order must be maintained.
