The Trump administrator calls for the national guard against the Los Angeles demonstrators

For months during the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump promised to use the army at the national level. His campaign telegraphed him via media coverage and reports of non -profit friendly organizations; Trump thought about the use of soldiers against demonstrations. After defeating Kamala Harris, the elected president of the time reminded everyone that he wanted to see “military assets” used as a complement to mass deportations.

Now the administration has taken the first serious step towards the transformation of these Lurid fantasies.

We will follow below as the situation develops.

Background

• Trump made a prescription on Saturday claiming the federalization of the California National Guard, the defense secretary Pete Hegseth performing the investigation to send at least 2,000 soldiers to Los Angeles. According to the prescription, the guard will escort and support those responsible for the Ministry of Internal Security when they apply immigration.
• It is the first time since the era of civil rights that a federal president of the unit of the national guard of the state absent from a request from the governor of the State. Although the troops cannot serve as an application of the law under the order of Trump – he should invoke the law on insurrection to do so – it is a serious climbing: the president now deploys the army in response to demonstrations.
• Los Angeles has become a focal point of protests against increasingly aggressive detention of the Trump administration. In the past few days, demonstrators have converged in the city on the targets of ice raids. These, in turn, have sometimes transformed into confrontations with the federal application of immigration.
• At no time did the state or location officials indicated that the situation required federal aid. The LAPD published a statement the day Trump federalized the guard calling for “peaceful” demonstrations.
• Certain senior managers of the White House, including Stephen Miller, have appreciated the games publicly with more extreme uses of the military in recent days, in particular by invoking the Insurrection Act.

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