(Los Angeles) Precarious calm reigns in Los Angeles on Friday before the demonstrations scheduled for Saturday across the country against Donald Trump’s policy, at the same time as the great military parade wanted by the Republican President for the 250 years of the American army.
The night went without incident in the megalopolis where a large Hispanic population saw, theater in the past few days of demonstrations against the muscular arrest of foreigners in an irregular situation.
“Why am I here?” For people who have been arrested, those who have no voice, “Jasmine told AFP, who did not give his family name.
On Saturday, opponents of Trump’s admin will meet throughout the country under the slogan “No Kings” (“no kings”). Demonstrations are planned in a hundred cities.
Donald Trump attributed himself the relative return to calm on Thursday to the deployment in Los Angeles of around 4000 reservists of the national guards and 700 navies which he ordered. But the curfew decreed by the democratic mayor of the city was also able to contribute to it.
The president retains, for the moment, the control of the National Guard in California, after the suspension on appeal of the prohibition by a federal judge to deploy these reservists in the second city of the country.
“Thank you for this decision!” Hailed Donald Trump on Friday. “If I had not sent the soldiers to Los Angeles, the city would be burning completely at the moment,” he reaffirmed on his social social platform.
Screenshot of Donald Trump’s Social Truth Account
Seized by the Governor Democratic of the State Gavin Newsom, a federal judge had estimated illegal at first instance on Thursday the order given by the president to deploy the National Guard to face the anti-expressions of migrants. The magistrate had at the same time ordered that the control of this double guardianship reserve body was returned to the Democratic Governor.
“Not a monarch”
A central figure in the Democratic opposition, Mr. Newsom, 57, is considered a possible Democratic candidate for the 2028 presidential election.
Photo Santiago Mejia, Associated Press
California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom
Tensions broke out on June 6 when demonstrators began to protest against antimigrant raids led by immigration police (ICE).
Largely peaceful, the demonstrations were however marked by sometimes spectacular violence, with burned cars, the looting of shops, fireworks jets or the cut of a large fast way.
Photo Ronaldo Schemidt, agency France-Presse
Customs and protection agents of the United States arrest a demonstrator during demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles on June 12, 2025.
But these clashes remained “far” from the “rebellion” described by Donald Trump to justify the deployment of soldiers, said judge Breyer.
The president “is not a monarch, he is not a king, and he should stop acting as such,” reacted Gavin Newsom after the decision of the trial judge.
Donald Trump promised during his campaign to attack “criminals from abroad”. But his efforts to combat illegal immigration have largely exceeded this framework and targeted in particular Latin American immigrants, essential for certain sectors of activity.
On the economic level, he admitted that he had to “do something” quickly to preserve the many immigrant workers in agriculture and hotels.
In Mexico, where a number of undocumented migrants are from the United States from, President Claudia Sheinbaum explained that she said to a senior American official that she “did not agree on the use of police descents to arrest people who work honestly”.
