Donald Trump sends hundreds of navies to Los Angeles

(Los Angeles) Donald Trump made the exceptional decision on Monday to send active soldiers of the famous Marine Corps to Los Angeles after three days of sometimes violent clashes between police and demonstrators opposed to his migration policy.

The military command for North America indicated in a press release that it has “activated” some “700 navies” who will join the soldiers of the National Guard, another body, of reserve that one, already deployed by the American president in the second largest American city.

They “will be deployed in Los Angeles to help protect federal officials and buildings,” said a senior American official.

The State Democratic Governor, Gavin Newsom, already opposed to the sending of the national guards, a decision he attacked in court, said that the deployment of active soldiers satisfied “the mad fantasy of a dictatorial president”.

“If they spit, we hit, and I promise you that we will hit like never before,” previously wrote the 78 -year -old Republican on Monday on his Truth social network for those he calls “insurgents”.

The American president, clearly determined to harden the tone, had already used this incendiary expression on Sunday, even more striking in English (“If they spit, We Will Hit”).

“Militarize”

National guards, in military uniform and endowed with shields, are deployed on Monday in front of a federal city detention center. Faced with them, demonstrators shouted “pigs, go home!” Others hit the sides of trivialized cars that passed through the police lines.

An increasingly numerous crowd also converged on the center of Los Angeles, where police separated the demonstrators from the federal agents and where there were carcasses of burnt down cars, traces of the clashes of the day before, who led in two days out of 56 arrests.

“Seeing Trump send the National Guard without the governor’s advice, I think it is a blatant contempt for the rights of the States,” AFP Andrew Schindler, a resident of Los Angeles, a largely largely democratic, on Monday. “And I think he is very dangerous that he is using it as an excuse to militarize the police forces. »»

Friday, demonstrators had tried to intervene in the face of the muscular arrests of immigrants led by the Federal Immigration Police (ICE).

“I saw my father handcuffed, hampered at the waist and the ankles. It was very traumatic, ”said Julian press conference on Monday, presenting herself as the daughter of Mario Romero, arrested by the ICE.

California prosecutor Rob Bonta announced on Monday to prosecute Donald Trump in court, believing that his choice to mobilize the national guards without the downstream of the governor “violated” the Constitution.

In a short exchange with journalists on Monday at the White House, the Republican, on the contrary, defended his decision as “excellent”.

The Democrat mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, assured that the perimeter of clashes concerned only “a few streets” in the city center.

” Great ”

To believe Donald Trump, the Californian metropolis would have been “striped the card” if he had decided to send the National Guard, a reserve body under double guardianship of federal power and states.

Gavin Newsom, considered a potential candidate for the White House, is one of the favorite targets of the Republican, who launched on Monday that it would be “great” to stop him, without knowing if it is a provocation or real intention.

Mexican authorities explained that forty Mexican nationals were arrested on Friday and Saturday during ICE operations.

In the other major Californian city, San Francisco, the police announced that they had arrested sixty people after a demonstration against the anti-immigration policy of the government degenerated.

Referring to an “invasion” of the United States, Donald Trump erected the fight against illegal immigration in absolute priority of his second term.