(Los Angeles) Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “release” Los Angeles from an invasion, according to him, “foreign enemies”, while the mayor decreed the curfew in the city center on the fifth day of clashes between police forces and protesters opposed to muscular expulsions of undocumented migrants.
“I declared a local emergency and established a curfew in downtown Los Angeles to end acts of vandalism and looting,” the city mayor of the city, Karen Bass, told the press, adding that he will be in force at 6 p.m.
“Last night, 23 businesses were looted, and I think that if you cross the city center of Los Angeles, the graffiti are omnipresent and caused significant damage to shops and a number of properties,” she added.
Since Friday, the second largest American city, with a large population of Hispanic origin, has been the scene of clashes between protesters denouncing raids of the Federal Immigration Police (ICE) against undocumented and police in anti-riot clothes. These clashes have nevertheless remained sporadic and localized.
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Protesters face police officers in an anti -assembly attire during a demonstration following federal immigration operations in Los Angeles on June 9, 2025.
The streets remained relatively calm on Tuesday in the city center, including in the district of Little Tokyo, after a night face-to-face between demonstrators pulling fireworks towards police officers and the latter retaluating with tear gas.
However, Los Angeles police officers (LAPD) intervened to arrests among a few hundred demonstrators in court.
A little further, a hundred people went briefly on a highway, interrupting traffic.
“Anarchy”
While the Republican President, who hovers the threat of resorting to the state of emergency, ordered the deployment of thousands of additional soldiers, the Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom is trying to prevent him, by legal means.
Hundreds of navies are expected to be reinforced in the Californian megalopolis.
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Members of the security services stand next to demonstrators in front of the federal building Edward R. Roybal during a demonstration against federal immigration controls in the center of Los Angeles, California, United States, on June 10, 2025.
“This anarchy will not continue. We will not allow federal agents to be attacked and will not let an American city be invaded and conquered by foreign enemies, “said Donald Trump during a speech on a military base.
He threatened to resort to the ACT insurrection, a state of emergency regime which gives the president the power to use the armed forces in control missions on American territory.
Some 700 navies, an elite body normally used as an external projection force, must join 4,000 soldiers of the National Guard already mobilized by Donald Trump, which he is accused of having taken disproportionate measures.
“They are supposed to protect us but, instead, they are sent to attack us,” deplored Kelly Diemer, a 47 -year -old demonstrator. The United States “is no longer a democracy”.
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Officers of the police, including members of the Special Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) team and internal security teams, arrest a demonstrator in front of the federal building while protests continue in response to federal immigration operations in Los Angeles, June 10, 2025.
Until when is this deployment of soldiers, the cost is estimated at $ 134 million by the Pentagon-Durera? “Until there is no more danger,” said Donald Trump.
The protests have won other American metropolises, sometimes with clashes.
In the early evening Tuesday, a few thousand people walked in southern Manhattan to protest against Donald Trump’s migration policy.
“I am here to defend those who cannot make their voices heard,” a young woman born in the United States told AFP of a Mexican mother without official status. “Frankly, this country would not be what it is today without immigrants,” she added by requesting anonymity.
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Protesters gathered in New York on June 10, 2025
Tar and feathers
Meanwhile, the controversy swells on the procedure of force of the Trump administration.
“Deploying in the street of combatants trained for war is unprecedented and threatens the very foundation of our democracy,” said Gavin Newsom, considered a potential candidate for the White House for 2028. “Donald Trump behaves like a tyrant, not as a president. »»
The president’s close guard was brought up in distrust of the California authorities.
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Gavin Newsom, Governor of California
Gavin Newsom “deserves tar and feathers,” said the republican boss of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson.
Asked about the Trump administration’s reaction to these demonstrations and those of January 6, 2021, when a crowd of Trump supporters had invaded the Capitol, he replied that there was “a clear difference”.
Trump announces that military bases will find their former names of Confederate Generals
Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that a series of renowned military bases under the chairmanship of Joe Biden were going to be renamed of their former names associated with Confederate Generals who fought during the Civil War, defenders of slavery.
The American president made this announcement during a speech from the largest military base in the country and headquarters of the special forces in North Carolina, she already became Fort Bragg again in February, after having bore the name of Fort Liberty since 2023.
“It will always be strong bragg,” said Donald Trump on Tuesday.
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Army soldiers watch President Donald Trump dancing after his speech to Fort Bragg, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Fort Bragg, North Caroline.
“We will also restore the names of Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort AP Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee,” he announced, a new one welcomed by some acclamations.
“We have won a lot of battles from these bases. Now is not the time to change, ”said the Republican President.
In mid-2023 under the chairmanship of Joe Biden, nine military bases called the names of Confederate officers, who had fought for the south in defense of slavery during the Civil War (1861-1865), had been renamed.
Trump is trained in European immigration
Taking up an angle of attack that has become recurrent since his return to power, Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Europe was to act against “immigration out of control” and “before it was too late”.
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US President Donald Trump goes on stage to deliver a speech during a visit to Fort Bragg to mark the anniversary of the American army, in North Carolina, in the United States, on June 10, 2025.
“As the whole world can now see, immigration out of control leads to chaos, dysfunction and disorder. And what do you know? This is also the case in Europe. This is what happens in many European countries, “he said during a speech on a military base, referring to the clashes that occurred in Los Angeles between the police and demonstrators opposed to the President’s forced eviction policy.
“They don’t like it when I say it but I say it loud and clear. They’d better do something before it is too late, “added Donald Trump, who spoke in front of soldiers carrying trellis and red berets.
Vice-President JD Vance had already attacked European countries in a resounding speech at the Munich security conference in February, judging that there was no “more urgent” problem than illegal immigration on the continent.
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