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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday filed an emergency request before the Federal Court to prevent the Trump administration from using the National Guard and the Marines to help the immigration raids in Los Angeles, saying that a change in orders is coming.
Newsom’s decision was reached after US President Donald Trump deployed around 4,000 National Guard members and 700 navies in Los Angeles, at least $ 134 million from US dollars, after four days of protests against his application of immigration laws.
The members of the guard were originally deployed to protect federal buildings, according to the administration, but the emergency request alleys that they will also be condemned to support immigration operations.
The file includes a declaration by Paul Eck, lawyer general general in the California military department, who said that the Department has been informed that the Pentagon plans to ask the California National Guard to carry out support, in particular the security of the perimeters where raids take place and securing streets for immigration agents.
It was not clear if the change of mission had started.
“Trump turns the US military against American citizens”, Newsom said in an article on social networks. “The courts must immediately block these illegal actions.”
At least 60 days
The deployment of the guard and the navies will cost at least $ 134 million US dollars and will last at least the next 60 days, said Tuesday that the defense secretary Pete Hegseth and a senior defense official told legislators.
“We have said very publicly that it was 60 days because we want to make sure that these rioters, looters and thugs on the other side attaining our police officers know that we are not going anywhere,” HegSeth told members of the subcommittee of defense of the credits of the Chamber.
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After questioning members of the Congress, Hegseth turned to his actor controller, Bryn Woollacott Macdonnell, who provided the total estimated cost and said that “was largely the cost of travel, housing and food”. She said that money would come from operating and maintenance accounts.
The mayor of Karen Bass said on Tuesday that she would try to call US President Donald Trump to tell him to arrest federal immigration raids. These raids triggered the demonstrations which, in turn, led to the deployment of the troops.
Trump sent the troops and the navies to repress the demonstrations despite the objections of Newsom and local leaders, including the bass, with Hegseth claiming that the governor and the mayor have “not protected” their people.
Bass reiterated Tuesday that the federal response increased a situation that could have been kept under the local police.
“Thursday of last week, Los Angeles was peaceful. There was nothing that justified that federal intervention,” said Bass at a press conference.
“If we want to look at the cause of what’s going on here, I can bring it back to the raids that took place. And uncertainty and fear and the fact that the families of the city are terrified.”
Bass said that the city would not tolerate violence and looting and that the city was planning to impose a curfew, but added that it does not know why the US government called the Marines.
“People asked me:” What are the navies going to do when they get here? “It’s a good question.
Bass said that she thought that the federal government uses it in the context of a “great experience” to see what is happening when it decides that it wants to take over a city or a state.
“Because if you can do so in the second largest city in the country, the administration may hope that it will be a signal for everyone everywhere to fear them-that your federal government, which has historically protected you, can enter and take over,” she said.
“Significant” challenge
Los Angeles police chief Jim McDonnell, said in a statement that he was confident in the police service to manage large -scale demonstrations and that the arrival of the Marines without coordination with the police service would present an “important logistical and operational challenge”.
General of the Marine Corps, Eric Smith, told a budgetary hearing on Capitol Hill that the battalion had not yet been sent to demonstrations. The navies are trained for the control of crowds but have no arrest authority and are there to protect government property and federal staff, said Smith.
Under the Posse Comitatus Act, troops are prohibited from taking charge of American citizens on American soil, although this can be replaced by invoking the Insurrection Act.
Trump said on Tuesday that “if there was an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it”.
Federal military deployment requests generally come at the request of a state governor, not in defiance of one.
Trump’s orders seem to be the first time that a president has replaced a governor since President Lyndon Johnson deployed troops in Alabama in 1965.
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California continues the American president, accusing him of illegal federal surpassing by deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles demonstrations in the face of ice immigration raids. The Pentagon also deployed around 700 American navies on Monday to strengthen the federal response.
The tensions climbed to Los Angeles after a series of immigration swings at the end of last week, especially in the city district and in a home depot, pushed the count of immigrant arrests in the city after 100 years. An eminent chief of the Union was arrested while protested and accused of the Empieur des Forces de la Forces.
In San Diego nearby, heavy tactical equipment officers fired flash-bang explosives in a popular Italian restaurant on May 30, an operation that led to four immigration arrests.
Questions about deportations
Hegseth said that immigration and customs’ application agents (ICE) expel “illegal criminals”, but democrats and immigration defenders said it was not clear if this has always been the case, citing a lack of transparency from the Trump administration.
A Washington Post report on Tuesday said some people from Southern California raids may have already been expelled. The judges in a certain number of cases across the country have wondered if the administration gave the deportees the possibility of contesting their moves, and the orders of the court led the government to facilitate the return of at least two people in the United States
