(Los Angeles) The first Marines dispatched by Donald Trump in Los Angeles begin their operations on the ground on Friday, on the eve of a day of demonstrations across the United States to protest the policy of the Republican president deemed more and more authoritarian by his opponents.
About 200 members of these elite troops, usually deployed abroad, will assume from mid-day of the protection operations of a federal building which hosts the FBI, said General Scott Sherman.
These units equipped with rudeness equipment are part of a group of approximately 700 navies who must join 4,000 reservists of the National Guard whose deployment was ordered in the second city in the United States by Donald Trump, against the opinion of the local Democratic authorities.
This is an additional gradation of the desired muscular response from the administration of the Republican President in the face of protest protests against the anti-migrant raids of the immigration police (ICE) in recent days in the megalopolis, where a large Hispanic population lives.
California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom denounced the “crazy fantasy of a dictatorial president” and seized justice.
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California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom
At the first instance, a federal judge estimated illegal the order given by the president to deploy the National Guard on Thursday before an appeal judge gave a respite to Donald Trump, by provisionally leaving him control of the military.
This judicial showdown occurs when opponents of the Trump administration will meet on Saturday throughout the country under the slogan “No Kings” (“no kings”). Demonstrations are planned in a hundred cities.
The same day, which is also that of its 79e Birthday, Donald Trump will chair Washington a large military parade intended to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the army.
“If I had not sent the military to Los Angeles, the city would be burning completely at the moment,” republican billionaire reaffirmed on his social social platform on Friday.
Screenshot of Donald Trump’s Social Truth Account
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A central figure in the Democratic opposition, Mr. Newsom, 57, is considered a possible Democratic candidate for the 2028 presidential election.
Tensions in Los Angeles broke out on June 6 when demonstrators began to protest against muscular raids carried out against undocumented migrants.
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.
“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.
Largely peaceful, the demonstrations were however marked by sometimes spectacular violence, with burned cars, looted shops, fireworks and a large blocked fast track.
The rallies have extended in recent days to other American cities, in limited proportions, such as in Las Vegas, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Atlanta or Boston.
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”.
