(Los Angeles) Donald Trump will “never leave the street law to reign in America,” said the White House on Wednesday, but the use of soldiers in Los Angeles was not enough to dissuade the mobilization against the arrests of immigrants in other cities of the country.
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;
- Other American cities are starting to be the scene of demonstrations against the migration policy of Donald Trump.
Photo Omar Kamal, Agency France-Presse
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.
A precarious calm reigned in Los Angeles, notably following the curfew decreed Tuesday evening in the city center “to put an end to acts of vandalism and looting” from 8 pm local (11 pm Eastern time) at 6 am by the Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, who nevertheless minimized the extent of the demonstrations against the Massive Expulsion Policy.
About twenty arrests have been identified.
APU GOMES photo, Agency France-Presse
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.
Donald Trump will “never let the street law reign in America,” said executive spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, defending her decision to deploy thousands of soldiers in California to support the Federal Immigration Police (ICE), despite the opposition of the most populous Democratic Governor in the country, Gavin Newsom.
“Our city is not at all on fire, it does not burn, as you try to make you believe our terrible leader,” a 66 -year -old demonstrator, Lynn Sturgis, a retired teacher of Santa Monica, in the Los Angeles agglomeration.
Donald Trump requisitioned the thousands of members of the California National Guard on Saturday, then ordered the mobilization of 700 navies on Monday, an elite body, to support them.
This deployment has transformed into an issue of intense political rivalry between the Trump administration and its democratic opposition, with Gavin Newsom on the front line, considered a potential candidate for the White House for 2028.
Photo Eric Thayer, Associated Press
The Californian National Guard is positioned in front of a federal building on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in the center of Los Angeles.
“California is perhaps the first, but it is clear that it will not stop there,” warned Tuesday evening in a television address, the governor of this democratic bastion, who accuses the federal government of going beyond his powers and asked the justice to suspend the requisition of the National Guard in Los Angeles.
A hearing is scheduled for this subject before a federal court in California on Thursday.
In his arguments written for debates, the Trump administration accuses Governor Newsom of engaging in a “coarse political combination which endangers the life of Americans” and ensures that “neither the National Guard nor the Marines are involved in the maintenance of order”.
” Calm ”
On the ground, around a thousand members of the National Guard are monitoring infrastructure across Los Angeles and supported ICE agents.
The others, including the 700 navies, being under regrouping or training for the management of civil disorders, said General Scott Sherman, who conducts operations.
On Wednesday morning, the streets of the city center were still under strong police surveillance, while city staff worked to clean the many graffiti on the walls of official buildings, an AFP journalist noted.
“It’s calm. But we expect that (the demonstrations) resume during the day, and certainly by the weekend, “says a former federal employee, Ellen Carpenter, also of Santa Monica.
Photo Joel Angel Juarez, Reuters archives
Protesters displayed placards in front of police officers during a solidarity rally with the Los Angeles demonstrations in Austin, Texas, on June 9, 2025.
Since June 6, the second largest American city has been the scene of sporadic, sometimes violent clashes, opposing protesters denouncing the descents of the immigration police against the police in anti -rose.
At the same time, the manifestations extend, again, sporadically.
Gatherings are scheduled for Wednesday in New York, Seattle and Las Vegas before what the organizers call a “No Kings” national movement (no kings) on Saturday, when Mr. Trump attended a very unusual military parade in the capital.
In Texas, the great state of the South, Frontier of Mexico, the Republican Governor, Greg Abbott, announced Tuesday evening that he ordered the deployment of the National Guard for a demonstration provided for in San Antonio.
