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On Sunday at 2 am, American president Donald Trump posted on social networks to congratulate the work of the California National Guard in response to the demonstrations of immigration raids in Los Angeles.
In fact, the guards arrived in the city that later in the morning, according to several reports.
“Thank you to the National Guard for a job well done!” Trump wrote at 2:41 a.m.
Just afternoon and (9 a.m. PT), the US Northern Command published on X that 300 of the soldiers of the 79th National Guard of California (IBCT) were positioned near the federal properties in three places in the Grand Los Angeles region – much less than the 2,000 Trump soldiers will be worth it.
The gap sparked American media relationships that Trump and the allegations of protest violence from his administration were exaggerated.
Just Psaki is hosted by MSNBC and segment In contrast between what the federal government had said and what really happened on the ground.
“Trump insists that this massive climbing in force is completely necessary,” said Psaki, noting also that the national guard troops would only have come to Los Angeles at 11 am, more than eight hours after Trump was thanked.
Trump deployed the California National Guard without obtaining the consent of the Governor of California Gavin Newsom, encourage the governor to continue the federal government later for his decision.
When did the Los Angeles demonstrations started?
The demonstrations in Los Angeles began on Friday evening at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, where American immigration and customs agents (ICE) had owned more than 40 people – including children – after raids across the city, according to ABC News.
The Los Angeles Police Department said on Friday on X that “a small group of violent people threw large pieces of concrete” and that it judged the “illegal” rally.
Anti-riot equipment officers were then seen throwing lacrymogenic gas cartridges to disperse certain crowds.
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The demonstrations, as well as the looting of a service station in Paramount, California, continued that day and Saturday-when Trump decided to federalize the National Guard.
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth applauded the decision on x On Saturday, calling for demonstrations a “huge risk of national security”.
Newsom replied that federal government’s help to prevent violence during demonstrations was not necessary and would only climb.
What happened after the arrival of the National Guard?
Sunday afternoon, the situation seemed to degenerate the case when, according to the Los Angeles Times, the police fired tear gas and less lethal tours on demonstrators outside a federal detention center, where the guards were posted, although it was not difficult if it were their local exercise or the police.
Later in the day, demonstrators spread on a highway, blocking traffic. But the Time reported The clashes quickly turned off.
On Sunday evening, however, Trump described demonstrators of “violent crowds and insurrectionists”, in an article on Truth Social.
THE The times have written That “officials of the Trump administration have seized isolated violence incidents to suggest that large parts of the are out of control.”
Psaki pointed out that around 300 people have been detained during ice raids in Los Angeles since the start of the demonstrations.
The Californians say that the demonstrations were largely peaceful and led by people whose family members were placed in police custody by immigration agents on their workplaces.
A retired teacher, Jose Gallegos, said USA today He attended demonstrations in Paramount on Saturday and was struck by a rubber bullet shot down by the police.
“We have no firearms. All we have, what we have, are prayers and feathers,” he told the media.
Beneficial climbing for Trump: experts
Legal researchers and democracy observers say that it is politically advantageous for Trump to exaggerate the number of violence linked to immigration demonstrations, as this is one of the questions to which the president has broad support.
“I do not think that the prospect of calling the National Guard is in a way sincerely motivated by the fear of a loss of public order,” said John Carey, professor of government at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and co-founder of Bright Line Watch, a threat supervisory group for American democracy.
“We have a long and proud tradition of the military remaining neutral and withdrawn from politics,” said Carey. “And this administration, I do not think, is committed to it.”
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According to Kim Lane Scheppele, a Princeton teacher who has a new autocracies, the national guards are a kind of protection against states against possible federal overruns.
They were created on the basis of the second amendment, guaranteeing the right of each state to a militia.
Their troops are roughly equivalent to the number of military units by the federal government, such as the Marine Corps – of which 700 were also deployed at – Scheppele.
“You don’t want it to turn into civil war … but at least you would have some sides uniformly assorted. This would allow governors to be able to say no [to federal overreach]Supported by a kind of military force, “said the professor.
The question is whether Title 10 of the American Code – the legal mechanism that Trump used to deploy guard – obliges the president to consult a state governor before federating his troops and if the governor can refuse.
