US National Guard ‘expecting a ramp-up’ in immigration protests: official | Donald Trump News

The members of the National Guard were deployed in the demonstrations In Los Angeles, Los Angeles was trained to temporarily hold civilians if necessary, according to the commander of the troops.

However, on Wednesday, Major-General Scott Sherman said that no troop had demonstrated a demonstration, despite a previous declaration which suggests the opposite.

The deployment of the National Guard came in response to the demonstrations against the push of American president Donald Trump for mass expulsion, which recently targeted hardware stores and other companies in southern California, which caused indignation.

The demonstrators flooded the streets from Friday to denounce the immigration raids. Trump responded by sending the army to the scene, denouncing what he considered “third party anarchy” in the city. Since then, however, the demonstrations have spread beyond Los Angeles, to the big cities of other parts of the country.

Addressing journalists on Wednesday, Sherman said that the authorities “expect an increase” in national troubles in the coming days.

“I am focused here in Los Angeles, what is happening here. But you know, I think we are very worried,” he said.

Sherman explained that 500 of the more than 4,000 members of the National Guard deployed in Los Angeles also received training to help immigration and customs application (ICE) in immigration raids.

His remarks came while the conviction continues to grow on Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard in California without the authorization of the Governor of the State, Gavin Newsom.

Since the arrival of the National Guard on Sunday, Trump has also sent nearly 700 navies to the Los Angeles region.

On Wednesday, the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, accused the Trump administration of having used the soldiers to intensify tensions in the city, where demonstrations broke out on Friday.

“We started by hearing that the administration wanted to go after violent criminals, gang members, drug traffickers,” Bass said about Trump’s expulsion.

“But when you go down on deposits and workplaces, when you tear up parents and children, and when you run armored caravans in our streets, you don’t try to keep anyone safe. You try to cause fear and panic.

“And when you start deploying federalized troops on the heels of these raids, it is a drastic and chaotic and completely useless escalation.”

Newsom, on the other hand, filed an emergency request on Tuesday to prevent Trump from developing the military presence in Los Angeles beyond federal buildings, with a court in court for Thursday.

Bass and Governor Newsom argued that local police were able to manage the situation before Trump’s intervention and that military presence caused more troubles, no less.

Speaking Wednesday alongside 30 other mayors of California and city leaders, Bass wondered if Trump saw how far he could push its presidential power.

“It was caused by the White House. The reason we don’t know,” said Bass.

“I apply that we may be part of a national experience to determine how far the federal government can go and take the power of a governor, the power of a local jurisdiction.”

So far, Trump has argued that soldiers’ deployment was necessary to protect federal property and agents – and was therefore within his executive authority.

He has not yet invoked the 1807 insurrection law, a federal law which suspend the prohibitions against the military who participated directly in the national police. Until this happens, troops are generally prohibited from making arrests.

Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, the spokesperson for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, repeated Trump’s claims according to which the sending of the National Guard and the Marines had prevented Los Angeles from shirking the chaos.

She accused that Bass and Newsom “shamefully succeeded in respecting their obligations under oath towards their citizens”.

“They try to use a violent crowd as a weapon against their own voters to prevent the application of the Immigration Act,” she said. “It is deeply non -American and morally reprehensible.”

Questions about “the invasion of migrants”

In the midst of the troubles, the Trump administration undertook to continue its aggressive immigration raids, the authorities last month fixing a quota of 3,000 arrests per day.

The defenders say that the pressure motivated the ice agents to take increasingly drastic measuresTarget anyone in the country without documentation, even those who have not committed criminal offenses and those who have deep community ties.

Los Angeles reports, Phil Lavelle d’Al Jazeera said that the authorities had carried out general raids in Home Depot hardware stores, where undocumented day workers often get together to find work.

In one place, workers have told Lavelle “that they will continue to come even if they know that these stores are targeted – even if they know that they will be targets – because they simply have to work.”

“These are people who communicate by WhatsApp and other methods,” added Lavelle. “If someone is seen in the region that looks like an ice agent, it is immediately that people know that they have to leave.”

Until now, 61 Mexican nationals had been detained in Los Angeles during the recent raids, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Trump has repeatedly said that the influx of migrants in the United States constitutes An “invasion”, which in turn requires emergency actions.

Speaking on Tuesday from the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina, he described California’s demonstrations “assault in its own right against peace, on public order and our national sovereignty led by rioters carrying foreign flags in order to pursue a foreign invasion of our country”.

But during a congress hearing on Wednesday, the president of the joint staff chiefs Dan Caine asked if he thought that the United States was invaded by a foreign power. His answer seemed to contradict Trump.

“I do not see any person sponsored by the foreign state invading, but I will be aware of the fact that there have been border problems,” he said.