(Los Angeles) The United States remains on the alert on Wednesday on the sixth day of demonstrations in Los Angeles against the migration policy of Donald Trump, which extend in the rest of the country and turn to the standoff between the democratic opposition and the republican president.
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.
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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.
In Los Angeles, the epicenter of these demonstrations since last Friday, the night of Tuesday to Wednesday remained rather calm after the entry into force of a cease-fire in the city center, even if the police carried out several arrests of people who have braved the prohibition to go out.
Twenty-five people were arrested, according to the Los Angeles Timeswho claims that the city has known “its calmest night for a week”.
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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.
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-riot clothes.
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”.
Many police officers, on foot, by car or on horseback, crisscross the city overflown by helicopters, noted AFP, while workers place wooden panels to protect windows.
Shops have been looted or damaged.
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The Californian National Guard is positioned in front of a federal building on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in the center of Los Angeles.
On Tuesday, the Democrat mayor Karen Bass, who strives to minimize the extent of the demonstrations in her city, still resolved to establish “a curfew in the center of Los Angeles to put an end to acts of vandalism and looting” of 8 pm local (11 pm East) at 6 am.
She said she expects the curfew on several days.
At the same time, the manifestations are still extending in a sporadic way, from Atlanta to 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.
“The contribution of Latinos to this country is so significant that we should not be treated in this way,” said Victoria Hernandez, 48, who works in the associative environment.
In Texas, the great state of the South, Frontier of Mexico and where a large community of Hispanic origin lives, the republican governor, Greg Abbott, announced Tuesday evening that he ordered the deployment of the National Guard.
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Protesters displayed placards in front of police officers during a solidarity rally with the Los Angeles demonstrations in Austin, Texas, on June 9, 2025.
The demonstrations in Los Angeles and the controversial deployment of soldiers have 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.
In a television address on Tuesday evening, he denounced an “abuse of shameless power” and warned that the American president would not be limited to his state.
“California may be the first, but it is clear that it will not stop there,” warned Gavin Newsom.
Donald Trump, he added, is a “president who does not want to be limited by any law or constitution, perpetuating an assault against the American tradition”.
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.
He threatened to resort to an exceptional law, theInsurrection Actrarely used state of emergency which gives the President the power to use the armed forces in missions of maintaining order in American territory.
