Protesters at a pro-immigration demonstration in Compton, California, June 7, 2025. © Gina Ferazi / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images
The Pentagon will send active marines to aid suppress riots in Los Angeles triggered by arrests of suspected illegal immigrants.
About 700 Marines with 1. Marine Division will aid protect ‘Federal staff and national property in the Los Angeles area’, informed North Command of the United States on Monday.Marines will support National defender soldiers whose presence on the streets is expected to emergence to 2000 by Wednesday, according to Reuters.“We have a work to defend national law enforcement officers – even if Gavin Newsom does not”, wrote defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on X. The Pentagon later announced on Monday that ‘additional’ 2,000 members of the National defender will be called to assist immigration agents and police.California politician Gavin Newsom criticized president Donald Trump's decision to send Marines against protesters as "non-American"."They should not be deployed on American dirt to face their own countrymen to fulfill the mad fantasy of the dictatorial president" “ He wrote Newsom on X.
He had previously insisted on Trump canceling the National Guard, arguing that their ‘illegal’ The deployment is an escalation and violates California's laws as a state.Protests broke out on Friday after immigration authorities arrested more than 40 people in the Home Depot parking lot and in the Ambiance Apparel clothing mill on charges of utilizing "fiction staff documents".
Demonstrations condemning Trump's implacable immigration policy rapidly turned into looting and violent clashes with police.Residents set fire to vehicles and broke into shops, and police fired pepperballs and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds.
According to press agencies, at least 56 people were arrested this weekend.Trump condemned “insurgents’, swearing to defend law enforcement officers.
"If they spit, we hit, and I promise they will be hit harder than always before.
specified disrespect will not be tolerated!”– wrote the president on his platform fact Social.During his campaign, Trump promised to deal with illegal immigration and increase the number of deportations.
According to Axios, Secretary of interior safety Kristi Noem and Deputy White home Chief of Staff Stephen Miller instructed immigration agents last week to increase the regular arrest limit from 1,000 to 3000.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/618876-us-marines-la-riots/
