(Los Angeles) Donald Trump assured Tuesday that Los Angeles, where clashes between the police and demonstrators opposed to the muscular expulsions of undocumented expulsions have been taking place since Friday, was invaded by “foreign enemies”.
“This anarchy will not continue. We will not allow federal agents to be attacked and will not let an American city be invaded and conquered by foreign enemies, “the American president, who ordered the deployment of soldiers in the Californian megalopolis, launched during a military base.
“What you see in California is a generalized assault against peace, public order and national sovereignty, led by rioters carrying foreign flags and aimed at pursuing a foreign invasion of our country,” said Donald Trump, before a few thousand people, trellis and civilians.
In his speech to the very hard tone pronounced in one of the country’s largest military bases, the republican billionaire called “animal” demonstrators and estimated that the demonstrators “proudly wore flags from other countries”.
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Army soldiers watch President Donald Trump dancing after his speech to Fort Bragg, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Fort Bragg, North Caroline.
He also made the names of the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, and former President Joe Biden, both Democrats.
Additional troops
Hundreds of additional soldiers, from the Marine Corps this time, are expected to be reinforced on Tuesday in Los Angeles in the face of demonstrations against the expulsions of migrants, Donald Trump causing the threat of resorting to the state of emergency.
“If there is an insurrection, I will certainly invoke it,” replied Donald Trump about a possible recourse to the ACT insurrection, a state of emergency which gives the president the power to use the armed forces in order to maintain order on American territory.
Since Friday, the second largest American city, with a large population of Hispanic origin, has been the scene of clashes between protesters denouncing raids of the Federal Immigration Police (ICE) against undocumented and police in anti-riot clothes. These clashes have nevertheless remained sporadic and localized.
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Members of the security services stand next to demonstrators in front of the federal building Edward R. Roybal during a demonstration against federal immigration controls in the center of Los Angeles, California, United States, on June 10, 2025.
The streets were calm on Tuesday morning in the center of the megapol, including in the district of Little Tokyo, after a night face-to-face between demonstrators pulling fireworks towards police officers and the latter retaliated with tear gas. Several stores have been the target of looting.
Some 700 navies, an elite body normally used as an external projection force, must join 4,000 soldiers of the National Guard already mobilized by Donald Trump, which he is accused of having taken disproportionate measures.
“Like a tyrant”
“They are supposed to protect us but, instead, they are sent to attack us,” deplores Kelly Diemer, a 47 -year -old demonstrator. The United States “is no longer a democracy,” she judges.
Until when is this deployment of soldiers, the cost is estimated at $ 134 million by the Pentagon-Durera? “Until there is no more danger,” Donald Trump replied on Tuesday.
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Protesters face police officers in an anti -assembly attire during a demonstration following federal immigration operations in Los Angeles on June 9, 2025.
Before warning the “rest of the country” that “if they manifest, they will find in front of them the same force or a superior force” to that deployed in Los Angeles.
The confrontation is twofold there: that, on the ground, opposing protests protesting against the government’s repressive migration policy and the police; And that, very political, between the republican administration and California, at the forefront of progressive states.
Its Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom turned to justice on Tuesday to prevent the deployment of the mobilized soldiers.
“Deploying in the street of combatants trained for war is unprecedented and threatens the very foundation of our democracy,” denounced the one who is considered a potential candidate for the White House for 2028. “Donald Trump behaves like a tyrant, not as a president. »»
“Tar and feathers”
The president’s close guard was brought up in distrust of the California authorities.
Gavin Newsom “deserves tar and feathers,” said the republican boss of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson.
“The troubles relate to a few house pâtés. Not the whole center, and not the whole city, ”repeated the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass. “The images give the impression that the whole city is in flames and this is not the case. »»
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Gavin Newsom, Governor of California
The protests have won some other American metropolises, sometimes with clashes. In New York, police arrested during a demonstration, according to an AFP journalist. And in Austin (Texas), tear gas was used, according to the local subsidiary of the NBC chain.
“This kind of spectacle fuels the idea that there is a real uprising against the authorities and a real emergency. We can at least assume that this is exactly what is looking for (Trump): militarize this type of conflict, in particular on immigration, because it allows him to move more and more towards dictatorial, authoritarian power, “Frank Bowman, professor of law at the University of Missouri, told AFP.
The muscular repression defended by Donald Trump, in difficulty on his budgetary law and weakened by his recent argument with Elon Musk, however hit the bull’s eye to certain worried Californians.
An owner of a small business with the tagged front of graffiti, who prefers to keep anonymity, considers that “it is necessary to stop vandalism”.
Trump is trained in European immigration
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US President Donald Trump goes on stage to deliver a speech during a visit to Fort Bragg to mark the anniversary of the American army, in North Carolina, in the United States, on June 10, 2025.
Taking up an angle of attack that has become recurrent since his return to power, Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Europe was to act against “immigration out of control” and “before it was too late”.
“As the whole world can now see, immigration out of control leads to chaos, dysfunction and disorder. And what do you know? This is also the case in Europe. This is what happens in many European countries, “he said during a speech on a military base, referring to the clashes that occurred in Los Angeles between the police and demonstrators opposed to the President’s forced eviction policy.
“They don’t like it when I say it but I say it loud and clear. They’d better do something before it is too late, “added Donald Trump, who spoke in front of soldiers carrying trellis and red berets.
The White House now presents the fight against illegal immigration as an issue of “civilization”, a rhetoric that worries civil rights defenders and anti-racist activists.
Vice-President JD Vance had already attacked European countries in a resounding speech at the Munich security conference in February, judging that there was no “more urgent” problem than illegal immigration on the continent.
The White House has also publicly supported its far-right training or figures in Europe, whether Marine Le Pen or the German AFD party.
