Anti-ICE protests are following a ‘troubling trajectory'
ASPI Resident Senior Fellow Director David Wroe discusses the developing anti-ICE demonstrations in Los Angeles and across the US.
'I think it is really serious – I think the trajectory is troubling,' Mr Wroe told Sky News Australia.
'It is extremely unusual to deploy the military to the streets in this way.'
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