{"id":28735,"date":"2025-06-08T17:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T17:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28735"},"modified":"2025-06-08T17:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T17:16:05","slug":"trump-deploys-california-national-guard-to-la-to-quell-protests-despite-the-governors-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28735","title":{"rendered":"Trump deploys California National Guard to LA to quell protests despite the governor&#8217;s objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PARAMOUNT, Calif. (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom after a second day of clashes between hundreds of protesters and federal immigration authorities in riot gear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"mb32 ar16-9\" data-eid=\"item-100634\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1px y1px vh abs\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-channels-pixel.ex.co\/events\/0012000001fxZm9AAE?integrationType=DEFAULT&amp;template=design%2Farticle%2Fplatypus_two_column.tpl\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Confrontations broke out on Saturday near a Home Depot in the heavily Latino city of Paramount, south of Los Angeles, where federal agents were staging at a Department of Homeland Security office nearby. Agents unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls, and protesters hurled rocks and cement at Border Patrol vehicles. Smoke wafted from small piles of burning refuse in the streets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"30b0aaf4-cc13-4972-9cf9-ad9a05e5e62d\" class=\"pbs\" data-pbs-root=\"true\" data-pbs-position=\"static\" data-exs-config=\"{}\" data-pbs-device=\"desktop\" data-pbs-sticky=\"bottom-right\" data-pbs-size=\"medium-large\" data-pbs-logo-pos=\"left\" data-pbs-content=\"playing\" data-pbs-player=\"content\" data-pbs-slot=\"ended\" data-pbs-content-type=\"mcd\" data-pbs-hover=\"true\">\n<div id=\"exp_a21e909f-06b2-4a24-a7e8-3bcfaf865381\" class=\"pbs__player shown\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"application\" aria-label=\"Video Player\">\n<div id=\"video1843051165dd7adf3c-965c-47ec-a59c-8a33cb8122a6\" class=\"pb-stream\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<div id=\"__exco_root_container\" class=\" __exco_desktop __exco_root_container\">\n<div class=\"__exco_content_container\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"__exco_ad_container_static_ima_0\" class=\"__exco_ad_container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-eid=\"item-100634\">\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Tensions were high after a series of sweeps by immigration authorities the previous day, including in LA&#8217;s fashion district and at a Home Depot, as the weeklong tally of immigrant arrests in the city climbed past 100. A prominent union leader was arrested while protesting and accused of impeding law enforcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>The White House announced that Trump would deploy the Guard to \u201caddress the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester.\u201d It wasn&#8217;t clear when the troops would arrive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Newsom, a Democrat, said in a post on the social platform X that it was \u201cpurposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.\u201d He later said the federal government wants a spectacle and urged people not to give them one by becoming violent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>In a signal of the administration&#8217;s aggressive approach, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to deploy the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>\u201cIf violence continues, active-duty Marines at Camp Pendleton will also be mobilized \u2014 they are on high alert,\u201d Hegseth said on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Trump&#8217;s order came after clashes in Paramount and neighboring Compton, where a car was set on fire. Protests continued into the evening in Paramount, with several hundred demonstrators gathered near a doughnut shop, and authorities holding up barbed wire to keep the crowd back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Crowds also gathered again outside federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles, including a detention center, where local police declared an unlawful assembly and began to arrest people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<h2>Standoff in Paramount<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Earlier in Paramount, immigration officers faced off with demonstrators at the entrance to a business park, across from the back of a Home Depot. They set off fireworks and pulled shopping carts into the street, broke up cinder blocks and pelted a procession of Border Patrol vans as they departed and careened down a boulevard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said federal agents made more arrests of people with deportation orders on Saturday, but none at the Home Depot. The Department of Homeland Security has a building next door and agents were staging there as they prepared to carry out operations, he said on Fox11 Los Angeles. He didn&#8217;t say how many people were arrested Saturday or where.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Paramount Mayor Peggy Lemons told multiple news outlets that community members showed up in response because people are fearful about activity by immigration agents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>\u201cWhen you handle things the way that this appears to be handled, it\u2019s not a surprise that chaos would follow,\u201d Lemons said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Some demonstrators jeered at officers while recording the events on smartphones.<\/p>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>\u201cICE out of Paramount. We see you for what you are,\u201d a woman said through a megaphone. \u201cYou are not welcome here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>More than a dozen people were arrested and accused of impeding immigration agents, Essayli posted on X, including the names and mug shots of some of those arrested. He didn&#8217;t say where they were protesting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<h2>Trump calls up the Guard<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Trump federalized part of California&#8217;s National Guard under what is known as Title 10 authority, which places him, not the governor, atop the chain of command, according to Newsom&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that the work the immigration authorities were doing when met with protests is \u201cessential to halting and reversing the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States. In the wake of this violence, California\u2019s feckless Democrat leaders have completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>The president\u2019s move came shortly after he issued a threat on his social media network saying that if Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass did not \u201cdo their jobs,\u201d then \u201cthe Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS &amp; LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Trump signed the order shortly before he went to attend a UFC fight in New Jersey, where he sat ringside with boxer Mike Tyson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Newsom said in his statement that local authorities \u201care able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment\u2019s notice,\u201d and \u201cthere is currently no unmet need.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said Newsom directed it to deploy additional officers to \u201cmaintain public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>\u201cEveryone has the right to peacefully protest, but let me be clear: violence and destruction are unacceptable, and those responsible will be held accountable,\u201d Bass said in a statement early Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>She said she had spoken with members of the Trump administration and insisted that she and Newsom were in control and there was no need for the National Guard to be deployed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>In 2020, Trump asked governors of several states to deploy their National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., to quell protests after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. Many agreed and sent troops.<\/p>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Trump also threatened at the time to invoke the Insurrection Act for those protests \u2014 an intervention rarely seen in modern American history. But then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper pushed back, saying the law should be invoked \u201conly in the most urgent and dire of situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>George H.W. Bush used the Insurrection Act to respond to riots in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of white police officers who were videotaped beating Black motorist Rodney King.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Trump did not invoke the act during his first term, and he did not do so Saturday, according to Leavitt and Newsom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<h2>Arrests in Los Angeles<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Protests kicked off a day earlier in Los Angeles after federal authorities arrested 44 people for violating immigration law Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>DHS later said recent ICE operations in Los Angeles resulted in the arrest of 118 immigrants, including five people linked to criminal organizations and people with prior criminal histories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>David Huerta, regional president of the Service Employees International Union, was also arrested Friday while protesting. The Justice Department confirmed that he was being held Saturday at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles ahead of a scheduled Monday court appearance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for his immediate release, warning of a \u201cdisturbing pattern of arresting and detaining American citizens for exercising their right to free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"r1udwkp5 d1uy5mhj articleBody mb32\" data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Lee reported from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Price from Bridgewater, New Jersey. Associated Press writers Zeke Miller and Eric Tucker in Washington; Rebecca Boone in Boise, Idaho, and Sophia Tareen in Chicago contributed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; PARAMOUNT, Calif. (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. 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