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- President Trump orders National Guard to LA after clashes over immigration raids | BBC News
President Trump orders National Guard to LA after clashes over immigration raids | BBC News
US President Donald Trump has ordered 2,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants.
Tear gas was used to disperse crowds as residents of the predominantly hispanic Paramount district clashed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
As many as 118 arrests were made in LA this week as a result of ICE operations, including 44 on Friday, sparking two days of protests.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has condemned the raids as "cruel".
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Hello, I'm Nicky Schiller. Welcome to the program. We start this out in Los Angeles.
President Trump has ordered 2,000 National Guards into the city to counter escalating
protests in a predominantly Hispanic district of the Californian city. It comes after a
second day of clashes between residents of Paramount and border immigration officers
trying to implement President Trump's policy to deport unauthorized migrants. Now, federal
ICE agents use tear gas, flashbangs and batons to disperse the protesters.
The White House Border Policy Chief has gone to Los Angeles to personally supervise the
operation during which
which more than 40 migrants were arrested on Saturday.
He warned that there would be zero tolerance of any violence
or damage to private property.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass,
said ICE was sowing terror in America's second largest city.
While announcing the order deploying the National Guard,
the White House said the administration
has a zero tolerance policy for criminal behavior
and violence, especially when that violence is
aimed at law enforcement officers trying to do their jobs.
These criminals will be arrested and swiftly brought to justice.
The commander in chief will ensure
the laws of the United States are executed fully
and completely.
I want to show you some of the latest pictures from Los
Angeles, and they come in the last hour.
They show law enforcement officers
wearing protective equipment, including
helmets, coming out of the federal detention center.
Now, several of them fired tear gas towards the protesters.
And it also appears that some form of explosive stun projectiles, which are often described
as flashbangs, are thrown.
Now, this came after the LAPD issued dispersal orders in some parts of the city.
They had said that the use of less lethal munitions had been authorised, saying they
can cause pain and discomfort.
Well, the protesters then did seem to pull back and then law enforcement officers formed
a line and they walked down the centre of the road.
You can still see those bangs going off, clearing the area.
They were trying to establish a cordon.
More tear gas and flashbang projectiles were thrown.
Now officers say multiple people have been detained for failing to disperse after multiple
warnings.
In the last half an hour, President Trump has posted on his Truth Social
platform. Let me read to you what he said. He said, great job by the
National Guard in Los Angeles after two days of violence, clashes and
unrest. We have an incompetent governor and mayor who were, as usual,
just look at how they handled the fires and now they are very slow
permitting disaster. Federal permitting is complete, unable to
to handle the task. He goes on to say these radical left protests by
instigators and often paid troublemakers will not be tolerated.
He also says also from now on masks will not be allowed to be worn at
protests. What do these people have to hide and why, he says. Again,
