California Democrats retired after President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to respond to the protests of anti-immigration raids in the Los Angeles area, with Governor Gavin Newsom arguing that Trump is trying to “manufacture a crisis.”
“Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles County, not to meet an unsatisfied need, but to manufacture a crisis. Wait chaos so that he can justify more offenses, more fear, more control,” said Newsom on Sunday over X, where he also urged people to “stay peaceful.”
Trump deployed the National Guard despite the opposition of Newsom. Guard soldiers can be deployed by the governors or the federal government, although it is unusual for a president to call the National Guard to the Federal Service in a state where the governor opposes, according to experts.
Trump further intensified his efforts to reduce protests on Sunday, ordering the leaders of several federal agencies “to take all those necessary measures to free the angels” and end the protest, which he characterized as “migrant disturbances.”
“Violent and insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our federal agents to try to stop our deportation operations,” Trump wrote. “The order will be restored, the illegals will be expelled and Los Angeles will be released.”
While it is not clear what action will take the Trump administration in response to his call to “free the angels”, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that active duty marines would mobilize “if violence continues.”
Several Democrats from California criticized the administration’s response to protests as “inflammatory”, “reckless” and scales.
The administration has painted the White House response to what it calls “leftist radicals” as an effort to maintain the law and order. At the same time, the Democrats feared that the administration’s response could increase the tensions, ultimately, inflaming the situation instead of submitting it.
Democratic representative Ted Lieu, who represents a district of the Los Angeles area, told X that he agreed with the Newsom evaluation that “Trump’s taking of the National Guard of CA is deliberately inflammatory.”
The representative Nanette Barragán, a Democrat who also represents a district of the Los Angeles area, also condemned the deployment.
“We have not asked for help. We do not need the aid. This is he who intensifies it, which makes the tensions increase,” Barragán said about Trump in an interview about the “State of the Union” of CNN. “It will only worsen things in a situation in which people are already angry at the application of immigration.”
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Senator of California and State Attorney General, said the deployment is destined to “cause chaos” and accused the Trump administration of aiming to “spread panic and division” through its large -scale immigration raids.
“The actions of this administration are not public security, it is about fueling fear,” Harris, resident of Los Angeles, wrote in a statement.
The protesters and the application of the law faced on Saturday, with some protesters launching objects and the application of the law deploying pepper and flash-base balls. The videos also showed looting and a car in flames. The protests initially began in response to immigration application operations, since the Trump administration has turned mass deportations into a central piece of its internal policy.
The political consequences were in the lines of the party, with Republican legislators criticizing the protests and the Democrats who push against the White House response. In a position during the night to Truth Social, Trump praised the actions of the National Guard in Los Angeles, although the guard had not yet reached the city, said Newsom.
The National Guard troops began arriving at Los Angeles on Sunday.
On Sunday, a group of California Democrats said they went to an immigration processing and customs processing center to “make the congress supervision”, but they were denied entry. One of them, the representative Gil Cisneros, characterized that the ice had been “in a uproar that passed through the angels, simply rounding people.”
White House representatives did not immediately answer questions about the criticisms of the Democrats. The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said in a position on Saturday night that “Democrats refuse to condemn this despicable behavior, but this will not be tolerated by the Trump administration.”
The deputy director of Cabinet Stephen Miller seemed to refer to the protests when he said in X: “We have been saying for years that this is a struggle to save civilization. Anyone with eyes can see that now.”
Additional protests were planned on Sunday.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, Republican of La-La., Answered on Sunday to a question about the deployment of Hegseth the deployment of marines of active duty in response to the protest.
Johnson emphasized the importance of “maintaining peace through force”, adding “This week” of ABC News: “I don’t think it’s hard. I think it’s an important sign.”
When ABC News co-presser, Jonathan Karl, intervened to further boost Johnson, Johnson said: “We have to be prepared to do whatever is necessary.”
“I think the warning that this could happen could have the deterrence effect,” Johnson said on Hegseth’s warning.
