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National Guard members fortify a federal building in Los Angeles on June 10, hours before a curfew in the downtown core and a wave of mass arrests. Since last week's furor over a new round of immigration raids in California, U.S. President Donald Trump has sent thousands of troops to the state.
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CBC
an hour ago
- CBC
No Kings protests against Trump's policies expected to sweep U.S. on Saturday
Social Sharing A U.S.-wide demonstration against President Donald Trump, planned for months and to be held Saturday, has ballooned in scope since protests against the administration's immigration raids broke out last week. Cities across the U.S. and the world are preparing for nearly 2,000 planned "No Kings" rallies this weekend — which were organized in response to the flamboyant military Flag Day parade Trump is holding in Washington, D.C. Flag Day happens to fall on the president's birthday — Trump turns 79 this year. The number of rallies has grown throughout the week, but there is not one planned for the U.S. capital. Organizers say that they want to draw attention elsewhere. Though initially unrelated to widespread protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities over the past week, the No Kings "day of defiance" couldn't be more timely, says Vicki Miller, whose group has been planning the Philadelphia No Kings demonstration since April. "It makes the urgency of everything we're talking about even more clear," said Miller, the Philadelphia leader of Indivisible, an organization that was created after Trump was first elected in 2016. The No Kings website says the aim of the demonstrations is to take action "to reject authoritarianism" of the current U.S. government. "They've defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too far," the group writes. The website features a map of the U.S. with black dots showing all the locations where rallies are planned. Rallies are also being held in other countries in solidarity. In Toronto, a "No Tyrants" demonstration is planned for noon local time across from the U.S. consulate on University Avenue. Organizers like Miller have sought to make a distinction between their rallies and the clashes that have erupted in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, in recent days. Trump federalized and deployed California's National Guard without Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom's consent in response to the protests. The move has been criticized as a display of the very authoritarianism protesters are trying to denounce. However, No Kings organizers say their plan is to remain on the straight and narrow. "We've never had any hint of violence in any of our protest rallies in Philadelphia," said Miller, a retired lawyer. "We're working with the city very closely." Miller said Indivisible is planning for at least 60,000 people to attend its rally Saturday. There will be 100 volunteer marshals present, who have been trained on de-escalation, and the group holds regular meetings on how to defuse tense situations, Miller said. But with protests gaining momentum across the U.S. and now elsewhere in the world, U.S. city and state officials are on high alert for what could unfold. Parade to feature 7,000 troops Washington, D.C., where the Flag Day parade will take place, has declared the event a "National Special Security Event," with a heavy Secret Service and law enforcement mobilization. The parade will feature more than 7,000 military troops, 150 vehicles and 50 helicopters. Texas's Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has put his state's National Guard "on standby" ahead of the No Kings rallies. At a news conference Wednesday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson expressed concern that Trump was "determined to insert chaos" ahead of the rallies. "Our responsibility is to continue to provide calm and structure to the situation," Johnson said. He said the city would "protect the fundamental right to protest and demonstrate peacefully, and if individuals work outside of those confines, will hold them accountable." Tuesday, Trump said he hadn't "even heard about a protest, but you know, this is people that hate our country, but they will be met with very heavy force." Protesting 'with the young ones' Many of the people CBC News spoke with who plan to attend No Kings rallies said they are not regular protesters. Armida Vicente-Sanchez, a 29-year-old welder who is organizing the No Kings rally in the small city of Dalton, Ga., where she lives, said her rally "has nothing to do with what's going on in L.A. Like, this is our own protest." "We're not trying to start anything like riots or nothing like that," said Vicente-Sanchez, who says she has family members who fear being targeted by ICE. For Clara Cáceres Contreras, though, No Kings is nothing new. The 70-year-old from McAllen, Texas, which sits across the Rio Grande from Reynosa in Mexico, says she has protested Trump every opportunity she's had. "I go out there and I protest with the young ones and I'm wearing my heels," she said. Cáceres Contreras said she is dismayed by the Republican Party's immigration policies under Trump. "They're arresting people that are working. These are working people," she said. "It's like going fishing in an aquarium." The retired education worker says the immigration raids in Los Angeles have given her "more" motivation to join the Saturday rally in McAllen. "Absolutely. My sister lives in L.A. Yes ma'am," she said. "I see the people there and I'm with them. They have a voice." She said she protested the border wall Trump used taxpayer money to build in his first term and that she is now protesting the Flag Day parade he is using taxpayer money to fund. The U.S. was built on rejecting a monarchy, Cáceres Contreras said, "and he thinks he's the king or something."
Winnipeg Free Press
2 hours ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
The bully is a person in our neighbourhood
Opinion A new kid moves into your neighbourhood. A loudmouth, pretty darned full of himself; 'I'm the best, the bigly-est, the smartest person ever,' but you're used to all sorts, even windbags, so you don't pay him much mind. And then one day as you're walking by, he punches you in the face. Later, he's all smiles, and says 'Let's let bygones be bygones, we could be the bestest of friends.' And things get better for a bit, though he's still insufferable. Demetrius Freeman / The Washington Post U.S. President Donald Trump Not long after, as you're walking by, he comes up and punches you in the face, saying that you were mean to him. A week later, he punches you in the face. And then says, 'We should really be friends.' At some point, tired of being punched in the face, you simply avoid him. Deal him out altogether from your life. Because you have no trust whatsoever that he isn't going to punch you in the face — and, to add insult to injury, also blame you for forcing him to punch you in the face. Enter America. Several media outlets — the CBC among them — are reporting that Canada and the United States are exchanging broad-strokes terms for a joint deal on economic and security issues. No framework deal at this point, just a starting point for what two competing views on what a negotiation might look like. You can understand it from a pragmatic point of view, when we do so much of our business with our largest trading partner to the south. And it is, in a qualified way, good to at least be talking. On the other hand … Sign a trade and security deal with the United States? We already have a binding trade deal with the United States, signed with great Sharpie flourish by the exact same person who has spent the last few months punching us in the face with tariffs. Here's the key point — why would we trust an American leader with a 100 per cent record of punching us in the face to, maybe, not punch us in the face any more? The truth is, we can't. Especially because U.S. President Donald Trump has a lengthy corporate history of punching people in the face as well. It's been his art of the deal — signing contracts and then refusing to honour payment terms, and demanding people settle breached contracts for pennies on the dollar or fight him in the courts for years. Weekday Mornings A quick glance at the news for the upcoming day. It's a conundrum we, and many other American trading partners, face: we can't really afford to lose America's business, and we can't really afford trying to keep it, either — because every time we jump one hurdle, we're faced with a new one and are asked to jump even higher. Contrast America's current negotiating style with the Chinese government, which has just announced a zero-tariff policy with virtually every single African country — 53 in all — with the one exception being Eswatini, the former country of Swaziland, because that country has diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Meanwhile, the U.S. is punishing African countries with high tariffs because Americans buy products cheap from them, while the populations of those countries are not in a financial position to make an equal-sized purchase of American goods. (Not only punching them in the face, but kicking them when they're down as well.) It's understandable that we're trying to make a deal in the short term, or maybe our federal government is trying to run out the clock as much as possible. But that's not the answer. Maybe we can't move out of the neighbourhood. But we can make new friends — not necessarily China, but there's a big world out there.
Winnipeg Free Press
3 hours ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
As legal fight over Guard deployment plays out, Noem vows to continue Trump's immigration crackdown
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pledged to carry on with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown despite waves of unrest across the U.S. Hours after her comment Thursday, a judge directed the president to return control to California over National Guard troops he deployed after protests erupted over the immigration crackdown, but an appeals court quickly put the brakes on that and temporarily blocked the order that was to go into effect on Friday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled a hearing on the matter for Tuesday. The federal judge's temporary restraining order said the Guard deployment was illegal and both violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded President Donald Trump's statutory authority. The order applied only to the National Guard troops and not Marines who were also deployed to the LA protests. The judge said he would not rule on the Marines because they were not out on the streets yet. Gov. Gavin Newsom who had asked the judge for an emergency stop to troops helping carry out immigration raids, had praised the order before it was blocked saying 'today was really about a test of democracy, and today we passed the test' and had said he would be redeploying Guard soldiers to 'what they were doing before Donald Trump commandeered them.' White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said the president acted within his powers and that the federal judge's order 'puts our brave federal officials in danger. The district court has no authority to usurp the President's authority as Commander in Chief.' The developments unfolded as protests continued in cities nationwide and the country braced for major demonstrations against Trump over the weekend. 'This is only going to continue,' DHS chief says of raids Noem said the immigration raids that fueled the protests would move forward and agents have thousands of targets. 'This is only going to continue until we have peace on the streets of Los Angeles,' she said during a news conference that was interrupted by shouting from U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat who was forcibly removed from the event. Newsom has warned that the military intervention is part of a broader effort by Trump to overturn norms at the heart of the nation's democracy. He also said sending Guard troops on the raids has further inflamed tensions in LA. So far the protests have been centered mostly in downtown near City Hall and a federal detention center where some immigrants are being held. Much of the sprawling city has been spared from the protests. On the third night of an 8 p.m. curfew, Los Angeles police arrested several demonstrators who refused orders to leave a street downtown. Earlier in the night, officers with the Department of Homeland Security deployed flash bangs to disperse a crowd that had gathered near the jail, sending protesters sprinting away. Those incidents were outliers. As with the past two nights, the hours-long demonstrations remained peaceful and upbeat, drawing a few hundred attendees who marched through downtown chanting, dancing and poking fun at the Trump administration's characterization of the city as a 'war zone.' Elsewhere, demonstrations have picked up across the U.S., emerging in more than a dozen major cities. Some have led to clashes with police and hundreds have been arrested. Noem calls action in LA a blueprint The immigration agents conducting the raids in LA are 'putting together a model and a blueprint' for other communities, Noem said. She pledged that federal authorities 'are not going away' even though, she said, officers have been hit with rocks and bricks and assaulted. She said people with criminal records who are in the country illegally and violent protesters will 'face consequences.' 'Just because you think you're here as a citizen, or because you're a member of a certain group or you're not a citizen, it doesn't mean that you're going to be protected and not face consequences from the laws that this country stands for,' she said. Noem criticized the Padilla's interruption, calling it 'inappropriate.' A statement from her agency said the two met after the news conference for about 15 minutes, but it also chided him for 'disrespectful political theater.' Padilla said later that he was demanding answers about the 'increasingly extreme immigration enforcement actions' and only wanted to ask Noem a question. He said he was handcuffed but not arrested. 'If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, I can only imagine what they are doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers throughout the Los Angeles community,' he said. Military involvement escalates in LA The administration has said it is willing to send troops to other cities to assist with immigration enforcement and controlling disturbances — in line with what Trump promised during last year's campaign. Some 2,000 Guard soldiers were in the nation's second-largest city and were soon to be joined by 2,000 more, along with about 700 Marines, said Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, who is in charge of the operation. About 500 of the Guard troops deployed to the Los Angeles protests have been trained to accompany agents on immigration operations, Sherman said Wednesday. The Guard has the authority to temporarily detain people who attack officers, but any arrests must be made by law enforcement. States face questions on deploying troops With more demonstrations expected over the weekend, and the possibility that Trump could send troops to other states for immigration enforcement, governors are weighing what to do. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, has put 5,000 National Guard members on standby in cities where demonstrations are planned. In other Republican-controlled states, governors have not said when or how they may deploy troops. A group of Democratic governors earlier signed a statement this week calling Trump's deployments 'an alarming abuse of power.' Hundreds arrested in LA protests There have been about 470 arrests since Saturday, the vast majority of which were for failing to leave the area at the request of law enforcement, according to the police department. There have been a handful of more serious charges, including for assault against officers and for possession of a Molotov cocktail and a gun. Nine officers have been hurt, mostly with minor injuries. ___ Rodriguez reported from San Francisco and Seewer from Toledo, Ohio. Associated Press writers Julie Watson in San Diego, Jesse Bedayn in Denver, and Jim Vertuno in Austin, Texas, and Hallie Golden in Seattle contributed.
