Tensions in Los Angeles | Trump sends hundreds of additional soldiers

(Los Angeles) Hundreds of soldiers from the Marine Corps, mobilized by Donald Trump against the advice of the Californian authorities, reinforcement on Tuesday in Los Angeles, already grid by thousands of soldiers and police officers responsible for repressing the demonstrations against the expulsion of migrants.

Since Friday, the megalopolis with the strong population of Hispanic origin has been the scene of clashes between protesters denouncing raids of the Federal Immigration Police (ICE) against undocumented migrants and the police in anti-rose.

The night brought back precarious calm in the center of Los Angeles, some of which laden with tear gas are testifying to the clashes of the last days.

Some 700 navies, an elite body normally used as an external projection force, must reach 4,000 reservists of the National Guard whose deployment has been announced in twice by Donald Trump, who is criticized for having taken disproportionate measures.

“They are supposed to protect us, but, instead, they are sent to attack us,” said AFP Kelly Diemer, a 47 -year -old demonstrator. She judges that the United States “is no longer a democracy”.

The American president camped on his positions. “If I had not sent the army to Los Angeles in the last three nights, this city which was in the past large and beautiful would be burning right now,” he wrote on his Truth Social network on Tuesday.

The confrontation is twofold: that, on the ground, opposing the police against protests Protestant against the repressive policy of Donald Trump aimed at migrants illegally entered on American soil; And that, very political, between the administration of the Republican President and California, at the forefront of the Democratic States.

Its Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, considered a potential candidate for the White House for 2028, estimated that the deployment of active active soldiers “the mad fantasy of a dictatorial president”.

“Feathers and tar”

But the president’s close guard added in distrust of local authorities.

Gavin Newsom “deserves tar and feathers,” said the republican boss of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson.

The state of California announced that it would continue Donald Trump in court, saying that his choice to mobilize the National Guard without the downstream of the governor “raped” the Constitution.

Without making oil stain, the movement has won other American metropolises by contagion. In Santa Ana, close to Los Angeles, the police fired tear gas in the direction of protesters crying slogans against ICE, report AFP journalists.

Hanging was also reported in New York and Texas. In New York, the police arrested during a demonstration in Manhattan, according to an AFP journalist, and in Austin, tear gas was drawn, according to the KXAN channel, a subsidiary of NBC.

“This kind of spectacle fuels the idea that there is a real uprising against the authorities and a real emergency, which allows (Donald Trump) to use even more force. We can at least assume that this is exactly what he is looking for: militarizing this type of conflict, in particular on immigration, because it allows him to move more and more towards a dictatorial, authoritarian power, “said AFP Frank Bowman, professor of law at the University of Missouri.

Donald Trump’s speech, in difficulty on his budgetary law and weakened by his recent dispute with Elon Musk, hit the bull’s eye to certain worried Californians.

An owner of a small business, who prefers to keep anonymity, is said to be in favor of the muscular repression of the federal authorities.

“It is necessary to stop vandalism,” she told AFP while the storefront of her business has been tagged with graffiti. Since Friday, several cars have been set on fire.