The Mirror, by Jeremiah Hassel, Reanna Smith, Anthony Orrico, Jack Hobbs, Debadrita Sur, Falyn Stempler, and Hannah Broughton: President Donald Trump has defended his decision to send another 2,000 National Guard troops to confront immigration protesters in Los Angeles, as the demonstrations spread to other US cities.
The protests began Friday in downtown LA after federal immigration authorities arrested more than 40 people across the city. Trump on Monday authorized the deployment of 700 Marines and additional National Guard troops to LA as the protests entered a fourth day. It came after an initial 300 troops arrived in the city on Sunday.
The demonstrations spread to other cities including Boston, Houston and Philadelphia on Monday. In Dallas, hundreds of protesters gathered for a rally which police declared was “unlawful.” Authorities said one person was arrested.
Clashes broke out between protesters and authorities in LA on Saturday. Agents unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls, and protesters hurled rocks at Border Patrol cars.
Trump’s decision to deploy troops to LA marked the first time in 60 years that a president had activated the National Guard to a state without a request from its governor.
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday said he planned to file a lawsuit against the deployment, calling it an “outrageous overreach” that was stoking “terror” among residents.
“This is a manufactured crisis. He is creating fear and terror to take over a state militia and violate the U.S. Constitution,” Newsom wrote on X.
Trump on Monday claimed that Los Angeles would have been “completely obliterated” if he had not deployed the Guard.
Prophetic Link:
“At the same time anarchy is seeking to sweep away all law, not only divine, but human. The centralizing of wealth and power; the vast combinations for the enriching of the few at the expense of the many; the combinations of the poorer classes for the defense of their interests and claims; the spirit of unrest, of riot and bloodshed; the world-wide dissemination of the same teachings that led to the French Revolution—all are tending to involve the whole world in a struggle similar to that which convulsed France.” Education, page 228.2.
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