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CBC
2 days ago
- Politics
- CBC
As U.S. marines land in L.A., protesters — and the governor — say their presence has become the threat
Social Sharing For the better part of Tuesday afternoon, another protest simmered behind a federal detention centre in downtown Los Angeles. Demonstrators gathered, some teenagers and some adults with young children on their shoulders, as organizers regularly reminded them to keep the temperature down during protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the city. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder while holding rifles and shields, members of the National Guard formed a line along the driveway to the building. "We are here to protest, not to fight," said Delilah Franco, 22, before taking the mic to remind the growing crowd to stay out of the road and on the sidewalk. WATCH | Having National Guard in L.A. 'frightening,' protester says: L.A. protester says ICE raids are 'sick' 19 minutes ago Duration 0:44 Hundreds of U.S. marines joined a contingent of National Guard troops in Los Angeles Tuesday at the direction of U.S. President Donald Trump. Their arrival after a night of dampened protests was swiftly condemned by state and city officials, while protesters said they believed the military presence was an attempt to antagonize an otherwise lawful, manageable demonstration. "It's frightening, it's scary, but it's obviously used to instill fear in the citizens," Franco said of the marines and National Guard being deployed. "We're here chanting to let the people in that [federal detention] building know we're here for them and they're not alone … we gotta keep fighting until there's some change being made." For the better part of the day on Tuesday, the steps around the federal building in downtown Los Angeles were quiet — a far cry from the protest epicentre they were days before. Members of the Los Angeles Police Department soon moved in on the crowd of about 200 people along Alameda Street mid-afternoon, corralling the protesters from both sides until they either left or got stuck in between lines of police officers. The protest was isolated to the block around the detention centre. Elsewhere in the city, the only signs of unrest were days-old "F--k ICE" graffiti and the husk of a burned-out car. Tump 'crossed a red line,' Newsom says "It's so enraging to see that he can use this power for the bad," Franco said, referring to Trump authorizing the deployment of the marines and National Guard. "It's bullshit, I'm sorry." "I feel like he's doing it to California to send a message to the other states and the country." Earlier on Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the courts for an emergency intervention to limit Trump's use of the National Guard in Los Angeles. "A President of the United States who's unhinged and has now crossed a red line in this country," Newsom said in a video posted to X. More than a dozen protesters who spoke with CBC News said they were bewildered by the military presence, saying the protests had been otherwise controlled by the LAPD. The police department on Saturday put out a statement commending demonstrators for keeping the peace. "This is America. 'Land of the free,' " said Isaac, 38, making air quotes with his fingers. He said he was a lifelong resident of L.A. whose parents immigrated to the United States. "The marines, they're not well trained to deal with population control like LAPD," he said. "They're trained to shoot to kill." One member of an interfaith group said they sympathized with the members of the service who had been ordered to face down their fellow Americans. "They are being placed in a moral conundrum," said Tanya Lopez, 38, a first-generation American whose parents immigrated from Mexico. She noted that the service members are supposed to be protecting civilians of they nation they serve, yet were being deployed against them. "They are just trying to incite violence and pit us one against the other," she said. California Gov. Newsom accuses Trump of using marines as political pawns 10 hours ago Duration 12:03 The Trump administration has ordered U.S. marines into Los Angeles and intensified raids on suspected undocumented immigrants, fuelling more outrage from street protesters. California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused U.S. President Donald Trump of trying to manufacture a crisis and violating California's state sovereignty and the U.S. Constitution. Trump claims military intervention was necessary Trump has said military intervention was necessary to maintain law and order in the city. He referred to demonstrators on Tuesday as "animals" and "paid insurrectionists." "If we didn't send out the National Guard … Los Angeles would be burning right now!" Trump said in the Oval Office Tuesday. It is rare, but not illegal, for the president to deploy National Guard troops despite the objections of the governor and local leaders. It is rarer still for marines to be deployed on home soil. California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit Monday over the use of National Guard troops following the first deployment, telling reporters that Trump had "trampled" the state's sovereignty. The authorization came amid Monday's mostly peaceful protests in the country's second-largest city. Additional protests against immigration raids are expected to continue in other cities Tuesday. Monday's demonstrations were far less raucous than those held on Sunday, with thousands attending a peaceful rally at city hall and hundreds protesting outside a federal complex that includes a detention centre where some immigrants are being held following immigration raids at workplaces across the city. WATCH | L.A. mayor says ICE raids must stop: ICE raids must stop, Los Angeles mayor says 4 hours ago Duration 3:48 At a news conference Tuesday, Los Angeles Mayor Bass called for an end to federal immigration raids in the city and slammed the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard and marines following several days of protests over the stepped-up enforcement. 'The real solution of all of this is for the administration to stop the raids,' Bass said of the unrest roiling the city. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said her administration has heard the ICE raids could continue for the next 30 days, if not longer. "It's a sense of intimidation and fear that is just so unnecessary and so corrosive to our city," Bass said at a Tuesday news conference. The mayor said she would place a call to Trump asking him to stop the raids. Passing the federal building early Tuesday, Isaac said his hometown wouldn't take the intervention lying down.
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
First Thing: Donald Trump sends Marines to LA as mayor says city being used as ‘experiment'
Good morning. About 700 US marines were en route to Los Angeles on Tuesday after Donald Trump mobilized them the day before in response to protests over immigration raids. The president also doubled the number of national guard members to 4,000, in an extraordinary mobilization of troops against US residents that California leaders have called 'authoritarian'. The Pentagon mobilized the 700 active-duty marines after tensions between the federal government and the nation's second-largest city dramatically escalated over the weekend, with residents taking to the streets to demonstrate against a series of brutal crackdowns on immigrant communities. The raids have affected garment district works, day laborers and restaurants. Federal agents also arrested the president of a major California union who was serving as a community observer during the raids. Despite facing teargas and other munitions over the weekend, protesters continued to rally yesterday, and families of detained immigrants pleaded for their loved ones to be released. How is California responding? The state has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing the US president of 'unlawfully' federalizing the state's national guard to quell a domestic protest. Days before Pete Hegseth fired three top aides last month over a Pentagon leak investigation into the disclosure of classified materials, according to four people familiar with the episode, a recently hired senior adviser said he could help with the inquiry. The adviser, Justin Fulcher, suggested to Hegseth's then chief of staff, and Hegseth's personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, that he knew of warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) that had identified the leakers. Fulcher offered to share the supposed evidence as long as he could help run the investigation, three of the people said. But when he eventually sat down with officials, it became clear he had no evidence of a wiretap, and the Pentagon had been duped. The extraordinary episode adds to the growing portrait of dysfunction inside Hegseth's front office. What happened next? The development was not communicated to the White House – so several Trump advisers who were told of the NSA wiretap claim believed that was part of the 'smoking gun' evidence against the three aides fired by Hegseth, until they developed their own doubts. The Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg was leaving Tel Aviv on a flight to France after having been detained earlier with other activists on a Gaza-bound aid boat, Israel said today. 'Greta Thunberg is departing Israel on a flight to France,' Israel's foreign ministry said on its official X account, along with two photos of the activist on board a plane. The group of activists departed Italy on 1 June aboard the Madleen carrying a symbolic amount of food and supplies for Gaza, whose population is at risk of famine. Israeli forces intercepted the boat in international waters yesterday and towed it to the port of Ashdod. What about the other activists? 'The passengers of the 'Selfie Yacht' arrived at Ben Gurion airport to depart from Israel and return to their home countries,' the Israeli foreign ministry said. 'Those who refuse to sign deportation documents and leave Israel will be brought before a judicial authority.' The health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, is getting rid of all 17 members on a key panel of vaccine experts and will replace them, he said yesterday. A former girlfriend of Sean 'Diddy' Combs told jurors in his sex-trafficking and racketeering trial that she repeatedly told the music mogul she didn't want to have sex with other men. Authorities said a Chinese scientist was arrested while arriving at a Detroit airport for the alleged smuggling of biological material, the second such case in two days. Donald Trump unveiled a federal program yesterday providing $1,000 government-funded investment accounts for American babies, getting backing from top business leaders who said they plan to contribute billions more to an initiative tied to 'the big beautiful bill'. Graphic sexual content, bullying, abuse and threats of violence are rife on Meta-owned products. Now Meta is pumping billions of dollars a year into building its metaverse, a virtual world for education, business, shopping and live events. But if Meta has utterly failed to keep women and girls safe in its existing online spaces, why should we trust it with the future? The unexplained deaths of hundreds of elephants near watering holes across the Okavango delta in May 2020 alarmed conservationists. Nearly five years later, scientists finally published a paper indicating what they believe to be the reason behind the deaths: toxic water caused by an algal bloom. Millions of people are prevented from having the number of children they want by a toxic mix of economic barriers and sexism, a new UN report has warned. While right-wing governments, including the US and Hungary, are increasingly blaming falling fertility rates on a rejection of parenthood, the report found most people wanted children. Gen Z are making headlines for their hesitancy to use bar tabs – instead preferring to close out and pay after every single drink, no matter how many rounds they order. But do younger people have a monopoly on poor bar etiquette? Alaina Demopoulos spoke to bartenders across the US about which generation behaves best. First Thing is delivered to thousands of inboxes every weekday. If you're not already signed up, subscribe now. 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