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For a better part of Tuesday afternoon, another protest simmered a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles, which is the epicenter of demonstrations against the repression of the Trump administration since the weekend.
The demonstrators gathered, some adolescents and certain adults with young children on their shoulders, because the organizers regularly reminded them of maintaining the temperature during the protests against the raids of immigration and customs (ICE) in the city.
Standing from shoulder to shoulder while holding rifles and shields, members of the National Guard formed a line at the entrance to the parking lot.
“We are here to protest, so as not to fight,” said Delilah Franco, 22, before taking the microphone to remind the growing crowd to stay outside the road and on the sidewalk.
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Delilah Franco, 22, was during Tuesday’s demonstration to protest against the repression of immigration to the Trump administration in downtown Los Angeles, and told CBC News that she thought that the increased military presence in the city was supposed to instill fear of citizens ”.
Hundreds of American navies joined a contingent of national guard troops in Los Angeles Tuesday in the direction of American President Donald Trump. Their arrival was quickly sentenced by state and city authorities, while the demonstrators said they thought that military presence was an attempt to contradict legitimate demonstrations that had shrunk since the weekend.
“It’s frightening, it’s scary, but it is obviously used to instill fear for citizens,” said Franco about the Marines and the National Guard.
“We are here to sing to leave people in [federal detention] The buildings know that we are here for them and they are not alone … We must continue to fight until changes are made. “”
There was fewer clashes between the demonstrators and the police on Tuesday than Sunday, when the demonstrators briefly closed the 101 highway.
Tuesday’s protest was isolated from the block around the metropolitan detention center. Elsewhere, the only signs of troubles were the “F – K Ice” graffiti and the ball of a single burned car.
Members of the Los Angeles Police Service moved to the crowd of around 200 people on Tuesday along the middle of the afternoon, released the demonstrators on both sides until most of the crowd is gone.
Late in the afternoon, the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass announced during a press conference that the city would impose a curfew for downtown parties from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. She also declared a local emergency and said that the curfew could last for several days.
Trump has “crossed a red line,” said Newsom
“It is so inserting to see that he can use this power for bad ones,” said Franco, referring to Trump authorizing the deployment of the Marines and the National Guard. “It’s bullshit, I’m sorry.”
“I have the impression that it does it in California to send a message to other states and the country.”
While tensions in the streets of Los Angeles had relaxed, the conflict between the governor of California Gavin Newsom and the Trump administration took another step forward. Newsom, a democrat, asked the courts an emergency intervention to limit the use by Trump of the National Guard in the city.
“A president of the United States who is unleashed and has now crossed a red line in this country,” said Newsom in a video published on X.
The Trump administration mobilizes 2,000 additional troops of the National Guard to ignite tensions in Los Angeles, which has an impact on the efforts of the prevention of forest fires and state fentanyl.
Trump does not care to protect the Californians. He militarized our state and causes chaos. pic.twitter.com/4qrkig94s4
More than a dozen demonstrators who spoke with CBC News said they had been disconcerted by the military presence, saying that the demonstrations were largely peaceful and that all climbing was controlled by the LAPD. The police service published a statement on Saturday, congratulating demonstrators for maintaining peace.
“It’s America.” Land of the Free “, said Isaac, 38, making air quotes with her fingers. He said he was a permanent resident of the parents who immigrated to the United States.
“The navies, they are not well trained to deal with the control of the population like the LAPD,” he said. “They are trained to shoot to kill.”
A member of an interconfessional group said he was sympathized with the members of the service who had been ordered to face their American compatriots.
“They are placed in a moral enigma,” said Tanya Lopez, 38, a first generation American whose parents immigrated from Mexico. She noted that soldiers are supposed to protect the civilians from their nation they serve, but were deployed against them.
“They just try to encourage violence and put us against each other,” she said.
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The Trump administration ordered the American navies of Los Angeles and intensified raids on alleged undocumented immigrants, feeding more indignation from the street demonstrators. California Governor Gavin Newsom accused US President Donald Trump of trying to make a crisis and rape the sovereignty of the State of California and the American Constitution.
The president says that military intervention was necessary
Trump said military intervention was necessary to maintain the law and order in the city. He referred “animal” and “insurrectionists” demonstrators on Tuesday.
“If we have not sent the National Guard … Los Angeles would burn now!” Trump said in the oval office on Tuesday.
The authorization came in the middle of Monday Mainly peaceful protests in the second city in the country.
It is rare, but not illegal, for the president to deploy troops of the National Guard despite the objections of the governor and local leaders. It is always rarer than the navies are deployed on a soil at home.
California attorney general Rob Bonta filed a trial on Monday During the use of the national guard troops after the first deployment, telling journalists that Trump had “trampled” state sovereignty.
The weekly demonstrations were much less noisy than those held Sundaywith Thousands of people attended a peaceful rally at the town hall And hundreds of protests outside a federal complex which includes a detention center where certain immigrants are detained after immigration raids in the workplace through the city.
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During a press conference on Tuesday, the mayor of Los Angeles Bass called at the end of the federal immigration raids in the city and criticized the deployment by the Trump administration of the National Guard and the Marines after several days of protests against the application of the law. “The real solution of all this is that the administration stops raids,” said Bass about the troubles that turn the city.
Bass, the mayor, said that his administration had heard that the ice raids could continue for the next 30 days, if not more.
“It is a feeling of intimidation and fear that is so useless and so corrosive for our city,” said Bass at a press conference on Tuesday. The mayor said that she would take a call to Trump asking her to stop the raids.
Protests against Trump’s immigration policies have also started to spread across the country, with more weekend planning.
From Seattle and Austin to Chicago and Washington, DC, the walkers chanted slogans, transported anti-ice panels and growled traffic through avenues of the city center and external federal offices.
Activists plan more and even larger demonstrations in the coming days, with “No Kings” events across the country on Saturday to coincide with Trump’s planned military parade through Washington.
Meanwhile, back in Los Angeles, Isaac said that his hometown would not take the military intervention.
“The city of Los Angeles, California? We are not going to give up without fighting,” he said. “We are sick and tired.”
