Members of the California National Guard arrived in the center of Los Angeles Sunday, shortly before 4 am, local time. President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum “through which he carries out 2,000 members of the National Guard to combat the crime” in California, while demonstrations against the operations of the Immigration and Customs Control Service continues in the state, said the press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, in a statement issued on Saturday.
On Saturday, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, said that the federal government is preparing to “take control of the California National Guard”, calling the “deliberate inflammatory” movement and which will “only escape stresses”.
The protests in Los Angeles started on Friday night following the raids carried out in the control of immigration control, which led to clashes between protesters and authorities, the White House announced in a statement.
FBI announces arrests
The Deputy Director of the FBI said that “more arrests” were made in both Los Angeles and New York, after protests in both cities due to the application of immigration laws.
“We are not intimidated or restless,” the deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, said on Sunday morning in an X. “Illegal immigration operations will continue, and anyone who uses violence to obstruct or prevent these operations will be investigated and prosecuted.”
“The violence and intimidation of federal law enforcement will be prosecuted,” it is shown in a post, on Sunday morning of the Department for Internal Security. “These violent revolts fight against the law and order,” adds to the post.
The President of the Chamber of Representatives, Mike Johnson, said that “he is not worried” at the order of President Donald Trump to send 2,000 soldiers of the National Guard to respond to protests against Los Angeles.
“I think the president did exactly what he had to do,” Johnson told Jonathan Karl, co-presenter of the show “This Week” from ABC News. “This is a true leadership, and he has the authority and responsibility to do it.”
Troops of the National Guard arrived in Los Angeles Photo via ABC News
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, said he was ready to mobilize the marine kids if the violence continues. Asked if the sending of marine prisoners on the streets of American cities is justified, Johnson said: “We must be prepared to do what is needed.”
Several people have been detained
Several people were detained after returning to an area that the Los Angeles police department had ordered to leave, the department announced.
“The detainees will be arrested and incarcerated because they have not dispersed from an area where an illegal assembly was declared,” said the central division of the department in a statement posted on the social networks at midnight.
A dispersion order had been issued about three hours before.
The division said that “more” people were detained on Alameda street, which is near the local office of the US Justice Department, in the east of the Los Angeles City.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who condemned the actions of the Trump administration on Friday the law of immigration laws has cataloged as disturbing Saturday's reports on protests outside the city.
“It is a difficult time for our city,” Bass said in a statement on X. “As we return after an unprecedented natural disaster, many in our community are frightened following the recent federal actions for applying immigration laws in Los Angeles.
Reports about disorders outside the city, including in Paramount, are deeply worrying. We were in direct contact with Washington officials, DC and collaborate closely with law enforcement for the best way to follow. Everyone has the right to protest peacefully, but allow me to be clear: violence and destruction are unacceptable, and those responsible will be held accountable. “
