Hundreds of additional soldiers, from the Marine Corps this time, are expected in reinforcement Tuesday in Los Angeles in the face of demonstrations against the expulsions of migrants, Donald Trump causing the threat of resorting to the state of emergency.
“If there is an insurrection, I will certainly invoke it,” replied Donald Trump about a possible recourse to the ACT insurrection, a state of emergency which gives the president the power to use the armed forces in order to maintain order on American territory.
“We will not let an American city be invaded and conquered by foreign enemies,” said the president. “What you see in California is a generalized assault against peace, public order and national sovereignty, led by rioters carrying foreign flags and aimed at pursuing a foreign invasion of our country,” added Donald Trump.
Since Friday, the second largest American city, with a large population of Hispanic origin, is the theater of clashes Between protesters denouncing raids of the Federal Immigration Police (ICE) against undocumented migrants and the police in anti-rolling outfits. These clashes have nevertheless remained sporadic and localized.
Disproportionate measures?
The streets were calm Tuesday morning in the center of the megalopolis, including in the district of Little Tokyo, after a night face-to-face between demonstrators pulling fireworks towards police officers and the latter retaluable with tear gas. Several stores have been the target of looting.
Some 700 navies, a elite body normally used as an external projection force, must join 4,000 soldiers of the National Guard already mobilized by Donald Trumpto which he is accused of having taken disproportionate measures.
Until when this deployment of soldiers – whose cost is estimated at $ 134 million by the Pentagon – will it last? “Until there is no more danger,” Donald Trump replied on Tuesday.
Before warning the “rest of the country” that “if they manifest, they will find in front of them the same force or a superior force” to that deployed in Los Angeles.
Such a political confrontation
The confrontation is twofold there: that, on the ground, opposing protests protesting against the government’s repressive migration policy and the police; and that, very political, Between the republican administration and California, at the forefront of progressive states.
Its Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom turned to justice on Tuesday to prevent the deployment of mobilized soldiers. If a first request for immediate execution of the request was rejected in the evening, another request must be discussion later in the week, specifies CNN.
“Deploying fighters trained for war is unprecedented in the street is unprecedented and threatens the very foundation of our democracy,” said the one who is considered a potential White House candidate for 2028. “Donald Trump behaves like a tyrant, not as a president. »»
The president’s close guard was brought up in distrust of the California authorities. Gavin Newsom “deserves tar and feathers,” said the republican boss of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson.
“The troubles relate to a few houses. Not the whole center, and not the whole city, ”repeated the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass. “The images give the impression that the whole city is in flames and this is not the case. »»
The protests have won some other American metropolises, sometimes with clashes. In New York, police arrested during a demonstration. And in Austin (Texas), tear gas was used, according to the local subsidiary of the NBC chain.
