This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress / Radio-Canada
US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of 2,000 national guards in Los Angeles on Saturday evening, his spokesperson said after clashes in the Californian city during demonstrations against mass arrests of illegal immigrants.
President Trump has signed a presidential memorandum providing for the deployment of 2,000 national guards to remedy anarchy that we have left prospersaid the White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, rejecting the fault of Californian Democrats leaders incapable.
Several people have been arrested in Los Angeles for opposing members of the immigration police (ICE), who have arrested many undocumented migrants for weeks in the policy launched by President Donald Trump, police said.
Members of theIce had gathered on Saturday morning in Paramount, a town in the suburbs of Los Angeles, mostly Hispanic, near a department store Home Depot, where workers traditionally come to offer their services for the day.
It is not clear if the agents of theIce were preparing to stop undocumented people, or if they simply gathered there for another operation.
But demonstrators began to regroup and the sheriff’s office said they had deployed agents on the spot at the end of the morning while tensions were riding.
Protesters have thrown objects on the police and tried to prevent a coach from leaving the premises. The agents postponed them using tear gas and deafening grenades.
At the end of the afternoon, the streets were strewn with debris and overturned caddies, according to the images of the American media which also report that demonstrators set fire to an American flag.
Incidents of the same type had already occurred on Friday in Los Angeles, where demonstrators had thrown eggs on vehicles of theIce After agents arrested undocumented migrants.
According to x images on X Saturday by the border police chief Michael Banks, and retweeted by Stephen Miller, one of the close advisers of Donald Trump, we see dozens of agents in khaki military uniform, armed and equipped with gas masks, who face demonstrators.
Stephen Miller, after Friday’s incidents, had mentioned an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United Stateson X.
The head of the massive expulsion policy of immigrants in an irregular situation wanted Donald Trump, Tom Homan, announced that the National Guard would be deployed on Saturday evening in Los Angeles.
Since his return to power in January, the American president and his government have multiplied the initiatives to expel as many undocumented migrants in the country, while seeking to extend their prerogatives in this area.
