The deployment of the National Guard of LA escalates Trump’s feud with California

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When he took office, President Donald Trump It perceives any indication that California’s policies and policies were directly in its views. It started with a list of the so -called sanctuaries jurisdictionA designation that includes the whole country and promised to release them.

Since then, it has disputed the California approach to the environment, healthcare, education and rights of LGBTQ, most of all in the federal court – there are four pending court cases entitled “State of California vs Trump” and Other 16 to whom the state has joined against the president.

Last week conflict escalated when White House officials said to CNN Trump was planning to shorten federal funding to California. On Sunday, he sent to the troops.

Trump placed hundreds of California Soldiers of the National Guard In the center of Los Angeles, as part of the rolling action for the implementation of immigration in southern California, which entered its third day.

The mobilization made over GAVIN GAVIN Newo objections And the mayor of Los Angeles, first called the National Guard since 1965, when Lyndon Johnson ordered the National Guard in Alabama to defend the protesters for civil rights, who set off from Selma to Montgomery.

“This is deliberate chaos,” said Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at a press conference. “There was no need to federate troops. So, to have this here, it is really just a provocation and something that was not needed in our city.”

Tensions in the city again attacked the center of Los Angeles, where protesters on Sunday faced police officers who fired dozens of less deadly circles, trying to scatter people on the streets around the 300 Federal building in North Los Angeles.

At least two self -operated vehicles were set on fire near the protest, and police continued to write a rally with rubber bullets well in the late afternoon.

At one point, the protester threw an object along the line of the police battle. In response, an officer fired a foam of 40 mm grenade launcher. The projectile missed the man who threw the object and struck a woman in the head. She sat when she was hit.

Bill Esayli, an American lawyer for Central County of California – which includes Los Angeles – told KNBC-TV that immigration agents were coercive while conducting attacks on Paramount and Compton.

“You have thousands of people who form and gather in crowds, riots, attack our agents, throw rocks, throw eggs, throw Molotov cocktails,” Esayli told News Station.

Protesters follow ice agents

In Pasadena on Sunday, a group of local activists joined the AC Hotel in the city center, where they said they had found immigration agents for execution along with their vehicles parked in the neighborhood garage.

About 350 people gathered at the biggest intersection, limiting the hotel, holding signs that called “No here” and “F – Ice”.

“We have received reports that the people who stay here (American immigrations and customs executive organizations) who stayed here asked workers and cooks and people who clean the rooms for their immigration status,” said Jose Madera of the National Day Organizational Network.

An employee of a restaurant in the center of Pasadena said that the workers at the hotel had left in the morning or never arrived, triggered by the entire open parking lot on the street, which would be crowded on another Sunday.

“Many people just didn’t show up on their work,” said the 22 -year -old Ayram Gurola.

Pasadena Mercedes Woolsey said the departure of migrant workers from the hotel is an enterprise of what the United States will look like with less immigrant workers, and promised to return to the protest at the hotel until they leave immigration agents.

“Be a threat, that’s all we can do,” Woles said. “We want to be sure that the AC hotel knows that they have decided to do this and we are not well with it.”

In the Urta bucket on the other side of the street, the brunch service indoors and outdoors continued without interruption.

California Democrats condemned attacks

The escalation of the Trump administration may be a turning point for a country with Third Trump voters in the country behind Texas and Florida.

Democratic politicians started the year more than usual Resisting of Trump’s immigration repression and the state facing a multitude budget deficit, legislators and Newsom were ants for the loss of federal funding. This was especially true for Newsom, which depends on the relatively harmonious relations with the Federal Government to provide assistance in the restoration of fire in Los Angeles.

But since then, the California Democrats have achieved a more challenging tone. They advanced last week Numerous accounts To deter the undeniable ice visits to hospitals, schools and shelters. Over the weekend, they condemned the attacks and went to protesters, especially after federal agents arrested the famous Union President David Huerta on Friday during a clash with protesters beyond the immigration raid of the clothing warehouse.

Newsom sent a letter on Sunday afternoon to the Minister of Defense Pete Heget requesting the administration to withdraw the troops and question the legality of their deployment.

“At present, it is not necessary for the National Guard to be located in Los Angeles and to do so in this illegal way, and for such a long period it is a serious violation of the state sovereignty, which seems to deliberately intended to ignite the situation,” the Newsom David SAPP secretary wrote.

The governor had talked to Trump on the phone about 40 minutes on Friday night, a spokesman said.

Assembly chairman Robert Rivas, Democrat from Salinas, called the attacks “Authoritarian attack on our immigrant communities.”

His colleague in the State Senate, Hildsburg -Democrat Mike McGuire, said the deployment of the National Guard “is” Riex of Fascism “.

Workers take care of more breaks

Marisa Nunzio, director of the Los Angeles -based clothing center, said clothing workers were getting dwelling after immigration agents detained 20 of them in an attack at Ambiance Abceal in the city fashion area on Friday. The accumulation of troops in the city center made members worry about a second raid.

The workers’ clothing center held a seminar on the rights of rights on Saturday, one day after the attack.

The participants “wanted to know how we could stop this,” Nunzio said. “How can we resist these attacks against our community? They wanted to know if it was safe to go to work, go to church, go to the clinic.”

Clothing workers are particularly vulnerable Because they are often hired in illegal production facilities that pop up and then disappear overnight. They are paid from the piece, usually from 5 cents to 12 cents per piece of clothing, a controversial practice that is drawn control by the legislatureS

Their weekly pay for the home is about $ 300, or $ 5.50 per hour paid in cash.

“We feel that the best thing we can do is inform workers about what is happening,” Nunzio said, “and reminds them that they have power in their rights.”

Calmatters Sergio Olmos and Mikhail Zinshteyn reporters have contributed to this story.

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