A judge ordered Trump to stop using the National Guard in LA
Los Angeles’ March on Decreasing Immigration Enforcement: The First Day of Protests and the Last of Trump’s Second Term Actions
But clear signs were also emerging that despite the return of calm to Los Angeles’ downtown streets, resistance to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and other policies may be just beginning. In an address earlier this week, Governor Newsom warned that “what we’re witnessing is not law enforcement, it’s authoritarianism.”
There were a few hundred protesters in New York City outside the immigration court, but things went quiet on Wednesday.
Most of the protests have been peaceful, and confined to small parts of the city. But some protesters have clashed with law enforcement, set cars ablaze, and vandalized buildings with graffiti.
“When you raid Home Depots and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart, and when you run armored caravans through our streets, you’re not trying to keep anyone safe,” Bass said. You’re trying to make people fear and panic.
Bass said at the press conference that she thinks that anyone who is involved in any of the violence is supporting the cause of immigrants. “If they didn’t do that, they wouldn’t be doing that because they know that that can cause more outrage from the administration.”
“Peaceful protest is legal. The posting on X Tuesday stated that any harm to a person or property will lead to arrest. “@TexasGuard will use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order.”
No Kings Day, an event organized by progressive groups to protest Trump’s second term actions, will be held across the nation on Saturday. The U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary will be celebrated in Washington, D.C. at the same time as Trump’s birthday.
Downtown Los Angeles was quieter Wednesday morning as it emerged from its first overnight curfew since the start of protests against immigration enforcement raids. The curfew was imposed after vandals attacked the city. LA Police arrested over 200 people for failing to dispersal, 17 for curfew violations, and some other charges.
The governor of California objected to Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles. Governors control National Guard units but can be federalized by the president.
Experts in the law say the federalized National Guard and active-duty military can’t act as police.
William Banks is a Syracuse University professor and he states that they can’t arrest. The Posse Comitatus law limits the use of the military in the U.S.
If the President were to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, it could be an exception to this restriction. But so far, President Trump has not taken that step.
Marines of Orange County – Why the Marines aren’t presently in LA, or Why they’re not going to come here
The 700 Marines are not currently in LA. In a video posted by ABC News, Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, who is overseeing the operation, said they’re at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach in Orange County, where they’re getting civil disturbance training.
A major difference between what’s happening now and the riots of 1992 is that this time, local and state officials didn’t request the military’s help. The government is barred from using troops in LA outside of federal property by a court order. The mayor said that she didn’t know what the Marines’ role would be.
Who knows? The bottom line is, we’re not told,” Bass said. “Basically we have to operate on rumor. There is a rumor that 700 Marines are going to come here. I have no idea what they’re going to do when they get here.”
Protecting National Guard Members from Detention in Los Angeles: The Associated Press and the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California
ICE posted photos that appeared to show National Guard members protecting ICE agents in the field on Tuesday. Some National Guard members Wednesday have temporarily detained civilians in Los Angeles, according to The Associated Press, handing them over to law enforcement.
Some legal experts think this could be covered by the Guard’s protection of federal employees. They risk violating Posse Comitatus if they’re drawn into aiding immigration enforcement.
There are some federal-local relationships that are not under strain. The US Attorney for the Central District of California announced federal charges against the two men for having molotov cocktails during protests. He praised local police and the LA sheriff’s department for their help, as well as local law enforcement representatives who thanked the feds at a press conference.
“We have a very good relationship with our law enforcement partners,” Essayli said. At the same time, he stressed the fact that federal law enforcement would not be bound by state restrictions on immigration enforcement.
“Some people believe that California is a sanctuary from federal immigration laws,” Essayli said. “Federal laws are applicable here and they will be enforced, and nothing they have done to date has impacted our ability to carry out our immigration enforcement efforts.”
Lorentz violation and immigration enforcement: Where are we going? Why did the Trump administration go that way? A conversation with McLaughlin
McLaughlin: I think that there’s major questions right now about who is financially backing these protests. There’s some activity on the ground that it seems that is highly coordinated, and that there might be a financial backer that could be even a foreign adversary, and we are having ICE, or, excuse me, the IRS and the FBI, look further into who might be backing these protests.
She said there was some activity on the ground and there might be a financial backer that was a foreign adversary.
President Trump on Tuesday said – without evidence – that California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had paid people protesting immigration enforcement operations. Hours later, he walked back the assertion.
In a conversation with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, McLaughlin also criticized California leaders for failing to restore order, spoke about deportation numbers and discussed Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, who the Trump administration brought back to the U.S. to face criminal charges in Tennessee.
Source: DHS spokesperson defends Trump administration’s use of military in LA
How Do Marines Live and Die in Los Angeles? Tell Me What You’re Meaning: Declaring the Trump Administration’s Use of Military in LA
There are a lot of different ways, Steve. Crowd control and defense of federal buildings. We have seen the buildings defaced with threatening language like ‘kill ICE’. Kill America. Death to America.’ We really need more resources on the ground. Protesters outnumbered ice enforcement in a federal building on Friday. There were more than 6,000 protesters on Sunday, outnumbering our ICE enforcement officers. So this is really just greater resources, and largely part for crowd control.
McLaughlin is from the area. I think it’s more boots on the ground. It’s more men and women in uniform making sure that law enforcement’s safe, our federal property safe, and that those protesters are safe as well. The leadership of Governor Newsom and Karen Bass had told us that things have not been peaceful, and that we wanted to return law and order.
Inskeep: Marines have been sent into Los Angeles. It’s very early, but what skills did the Marines have that apply in this particular urban situation that even the national guard does not have?
Inskeep: I’ve seen the video and the photos of the cars. That is true, but the military’s role and what he wants the military to do is something I think about. He’s emphasized a focus on the mission, which he defines as lethality and readiness, meaning readiness for combat. How does a marine deployment to Los Angeles match up with the mission?
The president sent National Guard troops to California, and he said that the protesters could be seen as a kind of rebellion. That’s the word that’s being used. I want to know how we can understand this as a rebellion. I would think of a rebellion as a group of people where they have a leader and an objective. Are you able to identify who’s in charge of this rebellion?
Source: DHS spokesperson defends Trump administration’s use of military in LA
Why haven’t we seen so many terrorists come back to the U.S.? Is that a problem? I’m afraid it will have to go a little further
McLaughlin is a person Last month? I don’t have that number on my hand. I’d have to tell you about that. I know there have been 150,000 deportations in the last 125 days.
McLaughlin: Roughly. I mean, I think we’ve definitely been able to ramp up efforts. I mean, we did inherit, you know, a very broken ICE, a very broken CBP, people who are not able to do their jobs for the last four years.
Inskeep: We’re ballparking on the numbers here, because we don’t know the exact number for this year, but it seems that the rate of deportations is higher than the average under President Biden, but still considerably lower than the average under President Trump or President Obama. Why do you think it has been difficult to get the numbers up?
McLaughlin: Steve, we have been facing many injunctions from a number of these judges. We were aware of that coming in. I think it’s a matter of, partially, of resources. We need to get this bill passed by congress in order for our ICE officers to have more resources to respond to these protests. You’re going from zero to 100 very quickly because these officers have been unable to do their jobs for the last four years.
McLaughlin: I would definitely counter that. The most injunctions have been given by a single president. Absolutely, Steve. Look at the numbers.
McLaughlin: No. I am a little bit sure. I mean, take the case of Kilmar Abrego. Take the case of the eight heinous convicted individuals who had final deportation orders out of South Sudan. Those eight individuals and the Massachusetts judge ordering that they come back. This is unprecedented. Why on earth do we have district judges who so desperately want to bring child rapists and killers, who have been convicted and have final deportation orders, back to U.S. soil? It is pure activism, Steve, and it’s quite disturbing, really.
Inskeep: I guess we should note that the Supreme Court, unanimously, among other courts, have insisted that people may well be terrorists, but that their cases should be heard in court. And that does lead to one more question. Since you brought him up, he’s been returned to the US to face charges. I guess he’ll get his day in court, and he’s facing quite an indictment. But the administration said for months that he could not be brought back. Now that the United States has brought him back, would you agree that it was always possible to bring him back?
Steve, what matters here, I think, is that a lot of Democrats and the media have been hyping the story that this is an innocent guy, and that’s because of the egg on his face. They’ve been saying that for months. He was a full time human trafficker. Allegedly. I absolutely disagree with what you said. I think the environment we’re in is very different from the first administration of President Trump or the Obama administration.
Inskeep: Just to clarify, you said you’d leave it to the Department of Justice. I understand. It’s clear that it was possible to bring him back, so why did the government not do that before?
McLaughlin was talking about the facilitate versus effectuate argument multiple times. The man who was not facing a grand jury in Tennessee is now. So the facts on the ground have changed.
Los Angeles, California, isn’t a riot: Homeland Security Secretary Noem’s warning on a city-scale escalation of protests
The secretary of the Homeland Security assured the public in Los Angeles on Thursday that the Trump administration would not relent in its anti- immigrants stance.
Noem spoke at a building far away from where the protests have been taking place. Calm has mostly returned to the area after two nights of a city-imposed curfew, and city leaders continued to dispute claims by the Trump administration that the city was ever under siege by violent mobs.
Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, both Democrats, have accused Trump of exploiting the protests for political gain and have called the deployment of military troops an unnecessary and provocative escalation. Secretary Noem said it will continue.
She said immigration agents were preparing to round up “literally tens of thousands of targets” in Los Angeles. It’s a scale of operations that has astonished even longtime immigration officials.
“First time I’ve ever seen it in my almost 30-year career,” Gregory Bovino, the Customs and Border Protection official leading his agency’s operations in Los Angeles, said at Noem’s press conference. “It’s actually breathtaking.”
On Thursday, Noem’s press conference was interrupted when a senator entered the room to confront her. He shouted a question, was dragged from the room, put to the ground, handcuffed and held for a while.
“If this is how the Homeland Security responds to a lawmaker with a question, you can only imagine what they are doing to people in California and across the country,” he said.
The White House had argued in court that the president has the power to use the military when he deems it necessary, due to interference and “fighting” with immigration agents. Justice Department lawyers said the military was not conducting law enforcement duties but would be used to protect or accompany federal agents and their operations.
There has not been a rebellion or insurrection in the past three days. Nor have these protests risen to the level of protests or riots that Los Angeles and other major cities have seen at points in the past,” the state wrote in its lawsuit against the administration.
“The federal government is now turning the military against American citizens,” Newsom said in a statement when his state sued to get control of the Guard back.. “Sending trained warfighters onto the streets is unprecedented and threatens the very core of our democracy.”
It was the first time in 60 years that a president had activated a state’s National Guard over objections of the state’s governor. In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators.
In his order deploying the guard, Trump said there had been attempts to impede immigration agents in Los Angeles that constituted “a form of rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States.”
Breyer said during the hearing that he could not rule on the use of the Marines, though the lawyer for California said they might replace Guard troops.
A ruling by the High Court of High Courts on the Immigration and Customs Act 1996 Immigration Arbitration Appeals in the U.S.
“That’s the difference between a constitutional government and King George. It’s not that the leader can simply say something and then it becomes it,” the judge said.
The ruling could still be appealed. But it’s a setback for the White House in the dispute over the powers it can assert in cracking down on illegal immigration – and over public opposition to it. It was not immediately clear if or when Guard units would be removed.
The US Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday defended the decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles amid protests against a crackdown on immigration by President Donald Trump. “First time I’ve ever seen it,” Gregory Bovino, head of Customs and Border Protection in Los Angeles, said. “It’s a form of rebellion against the authority of the government of the US,” he added.