National Guard to be deployed to LA immigration 'riots' - as Trump claims state officials 'can't do their jobs'
The National Guard will be deployed to Los Angeles after "riots" in response to immigration raids extended into a second day.
California Governor Gavin Newsom confirmed that the Trump administration is deploying "2,000 soldiers" to Los Angeles after local police used tear gas, stun guns, and riot shields to push back immigration protesters in Paramount on Saturday.
Demonstrations began outside the Los Angeles Federal Building in the downtown area of LA on Friday after officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out raids in the area.
Mr Newsom warned in a post on X: "The federal government is sowing chaos so they can have an excuse to escalate. That is not the way any civilized country behaves."
"The guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery [from wildfires]. This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust," he added in a statement.
"That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions."
"If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can't do their jobs, which everyone knows they can't, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!," he wrote.
Reports the guard would be deployed to LA came earlier on Saturday, from Donald Trump's border tsar Tom Homan on Fox News.
At least 44 people were arrested on suspicion of immigration violations during raids on Friday, with crowds of around "1000 rioters" forming around the building before some "assaulted law enforcement officers, slashed tires, and defaced taxpayer-funded property", according to the Department of Homeland Security.
On Saturday, protests spread to the city of Paramount, southeast of LA, after demonstrators spotted ICE employees in a Home Depot car park they appeared to be using as a base.
Some waved Mexican flags while others were seen being detained by law enforcement officials.
Roads were pictured strewn with trolleys and rubbish bins set on fire, as gas cannisters and fireworks exploded.
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Days before the book's released Biden revealed he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer with the cells having spread to the bone. Kuhlman emphasized that cancer testing protocols should have been maintained after 2014, but hinted that Biden may have been let down even in that regard. 'I hope that Kevin O'Connor had that conversation every year with his patient, Joe Biden, and documented that in the medical record,' he said. 'If he did the PSA and chose not to release it, I don't agree with that.'
