The tear gas was triggered to a multitude of protesters in Las Vegas. At least eight people in Seattle were arrested when a protest was declared illegal. Police arrested 10 people on another day of protest in New York.
These are just some of the demonstrations of coast to coast on Wednesday in the growing movement to oppose the immigration policies of the US government. UU. As ice agents continue to carry out raids in alleged undocumented migrants throughout the country.
The protests also exploded in Los Angeles, the epicenter of the country’s attention, after the riots and touched towels followed the ice raids in the city on Friday. More than 200 people have been arrested in Los Angeles this week, police said.
The main demonstrations are also expected throughout the country to coincide with the military parade of President Donald Trump.
Las Vegas
Many of the hundreds who attended the Las Vegas rally wore Mexican flags, some waved the stars and stripes, and others presented flags of Central and South America.
In what seemed to be a tense confrontation, the police told the protesters to go back while a video showed a long police line firing what seemed to be tear gas. Las Vegas police said he declared that the protest was an “illegal assembly.”
A video showed the protesters around the Lloyd D. George Palace of Justice and singing: “If we do not understand, shut up.”
Washington state
A state of emergency was declared and a touch of curb was imposed On Wednesday in Spokane, Washington, from 9.30 pm to 5 am, the local time of Mayor Lisa Brown, when the images published in X showed police officers stopping people and tinging their hands with zippers.
At least 30 people were arrested, according to local Krem station, and the video showed that tear gas also shot there while people protested outside an ice field office.
In Seattle, at least eight people were arrested. Police said the officers were dotted with fireworks, rocks and cement pieces, while firefighters extinguished a fire in the container.
California
The videos and photographs of the high -profile ice raids on Wednesday showed people colliding with, fleeing and being arrested by immigration agents in California.
In the historic Mexican neighborhood of Los Angeles of Boyle Heights, two vehicles covered a passenger car at an intersection in what the National Security Department called “an objective arrest of a violent questionnaire” who had allegedly hit an immigration officer.
In Downey, another predominantly Latin city to the southeast of Los Angeles, officials of the Christian Church Downey Memorial and others faced a group of five armed men in plains and tactical equipment that “stull” a man sitting under a tree in the parking lot of the church, according to the shepherd of the church to the Lopez.
“When we said: ‘We do not want this on our property’, this gentleman has just shout again: ‘The whole country is our property,” said López, pastor of Downey Memorial, to journalists.
His wife and main shepherd, Tanya López, remembered to have said to the men, whom she said that they identified only as “police”, were not welcome on the property of the Church and approached, at which time they “pointed out their rifle, and they told me: ‘You need to return'”.
The interim director of ICE, Todd Lyons, told Fox News on Wednesday night, defended federal actions to deport alleged “criminals” and described the protests in Los Angeles as “pure anarchy.”
“What the brave ice men and women, the brave men and women of the Department of Justice, all our federal partners and the brave men and women of the Los Angeles Police Department, I have to think that everything we are trying to do is our mission of application of the law, and we have to deal with this,” he said.
Legal fight for the use of troops
In California, Trump has deployed thousands of troops, including 700 active service marines, Los Angeles to quell the protests. The measure has generated fears that the Marines have not been properly trained to interact with civilians.
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice formally responded to the demand for California that sought to block the military to get involved in the application of immigration, describing it from a “political trick” that is “endangering American life.” A judicial hearing is scheduled for Thursday in San Francisco.
Attorney General Rob Bonta argued in a motion of the Court on Tuesday that the deployment of the Trump administration violates the POSSE Commitatus Law, a 1878 law that prohibits federal troops from participating in the efforts to apply civil law.
“The Federalized National Guard and the active duty marines deployed in Los Angeles will participate in an activity of application of the law par excellence in the violation of the PCA,” said the motion.
A military official with knowledge of the operation told NBC News that the Marines would not make arrests and would only transport and protect the ice agents.
In San Antonio, Texas, Governor Greg Abbott called the National Guard members to help maintain peaceful demonstrations. “Texas is a state of law and order, and we will use all the tools we can to guarantee order throughout our state,” he said on Wednesday.
The outgoing mayor of the city, the Democrat Ron Nirenberg, said that the governor was not asked to send the guard and did not notice the city’s leaders. Nirenberg urged the peaceful protest and expressed his confidence that the city “knows how to do this well.”
The demonstrations in San Antonio remained peaceful on Wednesday night. Some members of the National Guard sent to maintain peace were seen playing the popular “one” card game at a table.
