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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Reaction to Trump’s crackdown on LA protests splits sharply on party lines

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Maxine Waters and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Composite: EPA

Unrest in Los Angeles has become a microcosm of US political divisions on immigration enforcement operations, with political leaders offering vastly different interpretations of the Trump administration’s deployment of national guard troops and the mass targeting of undocumented communities.

The divide over the same events came into full view when the California Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters was denied entry to an LA detention center over the weekend, with Marjorie Taylor Greene, her Republican colleague from Georgia, mocking her on social media.

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