Closing summary
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Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass accused the Trump administration of using her city as a “test case” for the federal government taking over from local and state authorities and said the intervention was completely unwarranted. She told a press conference on Monday that the city had been peaceful before Ice raids that began last week, adding “this is chaos that was started in Washington DC” and that “nothing warranted the raids, nothing was happening”.
The Trump administration was deploying roughly 4,000 national guard members in Los Angeles on Monday in response to protests over immigration raids, officials said. Federal authorities also said the military would be sending roughly 700 marines, marking an exceptionally rare deployment targeting people domestically.
California on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing the US president of “unlawfully” federalizing the state’s national guard to quell the protests. The extraordinary deployment of troops exceeded federal authority and violates the 10th amendment in an “unprecedented usurpation” of state powers, according to the court filing.
Donald Trump suggested that he would support the arrest of California governor Gavin Newsom. On Saturday, Tom Homan, the administration’s border czar, threatened to arrest anyone who obstructs immigration enforcement efforts in the state, including Newsom and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass. Asked about the threat, Trump said: “I would do it if I were Tom. I think it’s great.”
Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said the protests in Los Angeles are “absolutely” organized by people being paid to instigate violence, without providing any evidence. She told Sean Hannity on Fox News “This is an operation, and it’s professionally done.”
David Huerta, the 58-year-old president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California, was released from federal custody on a $50,000 bond. He was charged in federal court on Monday with “conspiracy to impede an officer”.
Protests were held in at least nine US cities on Monday, including Austin, San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia. The protests were smaller in scale than on previous days. In Los Angeles police dispersed protesters outside a federal building using nonlethal munitions and teargas. Several arrests were made.
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President Donald Trump plans to speak at Fort Bragg on Tuesday to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US army as he deploys the military in an attempt to quiet immigration protests in Los Angeles, reports the Associated Press.
Trump has promoted the army’s anniversary as a reason to hold a military parade in Washington on Saturday, which is also his 79th birthday.
Tanks and other vehicles will roll down city streets in a reminder of how the Republican president is reshaping the armed forces after returning to the White House this year.
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