(Los Angeles) Donald Trump will “never leave the street law to reign in America,” said the White House on Wednesday, when a precarious calm won Los Angeles after five days of demonstrations against the migration policy of the American president, which extend to the United States.
What to know
- The city of Los Angeles is the scene of clashes between protesters denouncing raids from the Federal Immigration Police (ICE) against illegal immigrants and the police in anti -rose outfit since last Friday;
- Some 700 navies must join 4,000 soldiers of the National Guard already mobilized by Donald Trump;
- The mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass imposed a curfew on Tuesday;
- Other American cities are starting to be the scene of demonstrations against the migration policy of Donald Trump.
Photo Omar Kamal, Agency France-Presse
Map of Los Angeles, in the United States, showing the location of demonstrations denouncing raids from the Federal Immigration Police (ICE) against undocumented migrants in June 2025 and that of the National Guard units deployed in response.
“The most basic duty of the State is to preserve the rule of law, and this government embraces this sacred responsibility,” said the spokesperson for the American executive, Karoline Leavitt, defending President Trump’s decision to deploy thousands of soldiers in California, despite the opposition of local democratic elected officials.
In Los Angeles, epicenter of demonstrations that are propagated elsewhere in the country of which in New York, the night of Tuesday to Wednesday remained rather calm after the entry into force of a curfew in the city center, even if the police carried out around twenty arrests.
APU GOMES photo, Agency France-Presse
The police close the bridges and access to highway 101 after the entry into force of the curfew in Los Angeles, on June 10, 2025.
Under currency
Since last Friday, the second largest American city has been the scene of sporadic, sometimes violent clashes, opposing protesters who denounce the raids of the federal immigration police (ICE) against the illegal immigrants to the police in anti -rose.
Some 700 navies, an elite corps, should deploy there on Wednesday, joining 4,000 reservists of the National Guard already mobilized by the American president, to the chagrin of the local authorities who cry out to an “abuse of power”.
On Wednesday morning, the streets of the city center were still under strong police surveillance, while city staff worked to clean the many graffiti on the walls of official buildings, an AFP journalist noted.
Photo Eric Thayer, Associated Press
The Californian National Guard is positioned in front of a federal building on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in the center of Los Angeles.
“Our city is not at all on fire, it does not burn, as you try to make you believe our terrible leader,” a 66 -year -old demonstrator, Lynn Sturgis, a retired teacher of Santa Monica, told AFP.
“It’s calm. But we expect that (the demonstrations) resume during the day, and certainly by the weekend, “says a former federal employee, Ellen Carpenter, also of Santa Monica.
The day before, the Democrat mayor Karen Bass, who minimized the extent of the demonstrations in her city, still resolved to establish “a curfew in the center of Los Angeles to end the acts of vandalism and looting” of 8 pm local (11 pm Eastern time) at 6 am.
She said she expects the curfew on several days.
At the same time, the demonstrations extend, again in a sporadic way, from Chicago to Atlanta or New York.
In Manhattan on Tuesday evening, a few thousand people demonstrated “to defend those who cannot make their voices heard”, according to a young woman born in the United States of a clandestine Mexican mother and who requested anonymity.
National Guard in Texas
In the suburbs of Atlanta, in Georgia (south), several dozen demonstrators had raised on Tuesday by brandishing signs denouncing the federal immigration police.
Photo Joel Angel Juarez, Reuters archives
Protesters displayed placards in front of police officers during a solidarity rally with the Los Angeles demonstrations in Austin, Texas, on June 9, 2025.
“There are people who are arrested on the street by agents (immigration) who do not wear badges, who wear masks … It really makes me angry,” a 26 -year -old demonstrator told AFP Brendon Terra.
Demonstrations are also scheduled for Wednesday in New York, Seattle and Las Vegas before what the organizers call a “No Kings” national movement (no kings) on Saturday, when Mr. Trump attended a very unusual military parade in the capital.
In Texas, the great state of the South, Frontier of Mexico, the Republican Governor, Greg Abbott, announced Tuesday evening that he ordered the deployment of the National Guard for a demonstration provided for in San Antonio.
The deployment of soldiers, whose function is not to ensure the maintenance of order, has turned into an issue of intense political rivalry between the Trump administration and the Democratic leaders, including the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, on the front line.
Having become the figurehead of the Democratic opposition and considered as a potential candidate for the White House for 2028, Mr. Newsom shoots red balls on Donald Trump and wants to challenge his decision to deploy the army in his state, a democratic bastion.
“California may be the first, but it is clear that it will not stop there,” he warned Tuesday evening in a television address.
The republican president denounced the “anarchy” which, according to him,, in Los Angeles, and promised to “liberate” the city of “foreign enemies”, accused of stirring violence.
According to him, the demonstrators are “paid insurgents”, but the White House refused to comment who paid them.
