(Washington) US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of 2,000 national guards in Los Angeles on Saturday, his spokesperson said after clashes in the Californian city in demonstrations against massive 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 prosperous,” said White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, by rejecting the fault of the “incapable” Californian leaders.
Several people were arrested on Saturday in Los Angeles for opposing members of the immigration police (ICE), who have arrested many undocumented migrants for weeks in the course of the policy launched by President Donald Trump, police said.
“Several arrests have already been made as an obstruction of our operations,” the deputy director of the Federal Police (FBI) wrote on X Dan Bongino. “Several others arrive. We peel the videos to identify the authors. You bring chaos, we bring the handcuffs. »»
Members of the ICE 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 the ICE were preparing to stop undocumented people, or if they simply gathered there for this place 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.
Photo Daniel Cole, Reuters
A police officer uses deafening grenades as the demonstrators approached.
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 ICE vehicles after agents arrested undocumented migrants.
Photo Daniel Cole, Reuters archives
Police arrest a protester who blocks the entrance to the garage of the Los Angeles federal building after multiple immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in the center of Los Angeles, California, United States, June 6, 2025.
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, spoke of “an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States”, on X.
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A protester holds a sign while members of the border police in riot clothes and with gas masks are ongoing custody outside an industrial park in the Paramount section of Los Angeles.
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.
