(Los Angeles) Donald Trump awarded the relative return to calm in Los Angeles to the deployment of soldiers he ordered, on which justice should look on Thursday, when demonstrations of limited scale against his muscular migration policy are multiplying in the United States.
“Los Angeles has been sure and calm in the last two nights,” said the American president, who has still attributed the merits to his decision to send the army in the second metropolis of the country, on his Truth Social Network.
Since Friday, this city with the large Hispanic population has been the scene of demonstrations against muscular arrests of foreigners in an irregular situation that took place last week.
These peaceful protests have sometimes been marked by stones against the police, vehicle fires, degradations and violence.
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Police pulled with a non -lethal weapon over a man who threw a can during a demonstration against federal immigration operations in Los Angeles, on June 11, 2025.
More than 1000 people still protested peacefully on Wednesday, before a second night of curfew in the city center imposed by the city to prevent looting and acts of vandalism.
“I would say that in general, everything is under control here in Ground Zero,” a 66-year-old retirement teacher told AFP in the offices of the federal government, epicenter of demonstrations in the city center.
Political rivalry
Donald Trump ordered the deployment in Los Angeles of 4,000 reservists from the California National Guard and 700 Marines, an elite of the active army, against the advice of the Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.
“Governor Gavin (Newsom) he had completely lost control of the situation. He should tell me thank you for saving her buttocks, instead of trying to justify his mistakes and her incompetence! ! ! “Added the tenant of the White House on Thursday.
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This military deployment has transformed into an issue of political rivalry between the Trump administration and the Democratic opposition. With on the front line Mr. Newsom, considered a potential candidate for the White House for 2028.
The Governor of California accuses the federal government of going beyond its powers and asked the justice to suspend the requisition of the National Guard. A hearing is scheduled for this subject on Thursday before a federal court in Los Angeles.
Of the 4,700 soldiers deployed on the ground, a thousand members of the National Guard protect buildings and support the Federal Immigration Police (ICE), said General Scott Sherman, who commands operations.
The others, including the 700 navies, are being deployed where order to maintain, he said.
“No kings”
The demonstrations have extended in recent days to other American cities, but still in limited proportions.
According to a map established by CNN, demonstrations, sometimes enamelled with arrests, were identified in Las Vegas, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Milwaukee, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston …
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Protesters hold signs on the Firestone boulevard during a demonstration against federal immigration controls.
In Spokane, a city of around 230,000 inhabitants in the state of the Washington, the city had in turn decreed a night curfew.
Migrants “have as much the right as we are here, it doesn’t matter if they have arrived legally or illegally,” said a demonstrator in tears named Apples, interviewed by the Las Vegas Review Journal. “It makes me sick for my boyfriend and his family. These are Cuban refugees, they are afraid to go shopping, to go to work. ”
In Texas, republican governor Greg Abbott ordered the deployment of the National Guard on Tuesday for a rally in San Antonio. This did not prevent hundreds of demonstrators from gathering near the town hall.
On Saturday, Donald Trump must attend a very unusual military parade in Washington, organized to celebrate the 250e anniversary of the American army, but which also falls on the day of the 79e President’s anniversary.
A national movement called “No Kings” (“no kings”) called for rallies this same Saturday in hundreds of cities across the country to protest the politics of Mr. Trump.
