The city of Los Angeles entered Monday on the fourth day of many protests of hundreds of people for raids against undocumented immigrants ordered by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his decision to deploy soldiers.
The origin of the protests
The outbreak of the discomfort that is lived in Los Angeles had its origin last Friday, when the customs immigration and control service (ICE) made several raids in different parts of the angels that led to the arrest of at least 44 people in the Westlake district, the center and the south of the metropolis.
In response, a crowd went out to demonstrate against these arrests, which led Trump to order the deployment to more than 2,000 soldiers of the National Guard to repel the protests and protect the federal immigration building, located in the heart of Los Angeles.
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These troops, composed of a reserve force of the Armed Forces is activated for special missions and this time it was the first in 60 years that are deployed without the prior authorization of the governor of the State in question.
This controversial decision increased the tension in the streets throughout the weekend, and the protest of senior California officials such as Governor Gavin Newsom.
Why do the flag of Mexico in protests?
The flag of Latin American countries, especially from Mexico, have become a symbol of defense of the roots of those that Trump wants to expel from the US.
And it is that the germ of the protests, before moving to the center of Los Angeles, was developed in Paramount, a small municipality of just over 50,000 inhabitants in which a wide Latin community lies and where, according to the website, “crime statistics are in historical minimums”.
It was there that the first riots of Saturday were recorded, after the shipment of the National Guard to the most populous state in the country and where most Hispanics live, with more than 15 million people, according to government figures.
Open war between California and Trump
The massive protests have unleashed the storm among the Democratic officials leading the State and the US president, eternal political rivals with opposite edges about how to address the immigration issue in the country.
While Trump describes Los Angeles as a city “invaded and occupied by illegal and criminal immigrants”, California authorities defend the wealth provided by the migrant community to the State.
“Los Angeles has a proud history of peaceful protests for the rights of immigrants. We must continue that legacy; let’s not fall into the trap of the Trump administration. Let’s protest peacefully. The looting or vandalism will not be tolerated,” the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, warned on Monday.
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Governor Newsom claimed that he never requested the deployment of the National Guard, and that since his arrival the conflict has not stopped climbing.
“We had no problem until Trump intervened. This constitutes a serious violation of state sovereignty: exacerbate tensions and deviates resources from which they really are needed. They terminate the order,” he said in a letter.
The voltage spotlights multiply
The efforts of the California authorities derived on Monday in a lawsuit against Trump for the “illegal” deployment of troops, a movement that, explained by the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, involves an abuse of authority.
Far from finishing, protests against Trump deportations in Los Angeles have expanded throughout the weekend other points in California, as in San Francisco, where more than 150 people were arrested Sunday night after demonstrating against ICE.
New York authorities also arrested 24 people who demonstrated in the Trump tower lobby against immigrant raids and the recent restrictions of entry into the country imposed by the president imposed on 19 countries.
Trump’s anti-immigrants policies do not take American society by surprise, since during their first mandate in the White House (2017-2021) it hardened much of the immigration laws to stop the flow of undocumented people to the country and in the campaign for the president of this term was one of its electoral promises.
With EFE information
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