U.S. governors divided along party lines about military troops deployed to protests

Imagine being a MAGA governor and having to say you are okay with Trump joy riding with his troops through your state.

Ask one of the extinct moderates like DeWine for the last sane republican thought on the matter.

Trump people: Your tax dollars are paying for this and it's very expensive (also the Trump military parade). Do MAGAs actually believe these military activities grow in trees?

California Democratic Gov Gavin Newsom is calling President Donald Trump's military intervention at protests over federal immigration policy in Los Angeles an assault on democracy and has sued to try to stop it. Meanwhile, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is putting the National Guard on standby in areas in his state where demonstrations are planned.

The divergent approaches illustrate the ways the two parties are trying to navigate national politics and the role of executive power in enforcing immigration policies.

Well, only somewhat - Repubs were against sending the military to their states when Biden was President...

They've all FLIPPED now that their Demented Dimwit is in office...

Just like this;

Feb 2024: As South Dakota governor, Kristi Noem threatened then-President Joe Biden when Democrats said he should federalize the National Guard in Texas to disrupt that state governor's anti-immigration efforts. If he did, Noem warned, Biden would be mounting a “direct attack on states’ rights,” and a “war” between Washington and Republican-led state governments, she said in a Feb. 6, 2024 interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

June 2025: Noem − now President Donald Trump's Homeland Security secretary − cheered Trump for doing the same thing to the Democratic governor of the state of California.

MAGA-world - all hypocrisy, all the time...

US has been highly partisan for decades, but vast majority of citizens want illegal aliens deported ASAP, especially dangerous criminals and so Trump has a winning position with the electorate.

US Citizens across the country are looking with horror at the dystopian lawless failed state of CA, where their citizens and businesses have been fleeing for safer lower cost and tax states for decades now

In fact, CNN polling has showed this week, that 1st generation US immigrants, now US citizens, have moved 40 points TOWARDS Republicans since 2020!

US Citizens across the country are looking with horror at the dystopian lawless failed state of CA, where their citizens and businesses have been fleeing for safer lower cost and tax states for decades now

If people are fleeing then explain why the population has grown steadily? There was a two year period during the pandemic where the population declined by less than 1% but growth has resumed and California's feeling businesses ( lol ) somehow managed to bump Japan out of the number four spot in terms of global GDP. Fat Sarah Huckabee was chortling about how here state is all about law and order but the homicide rate in Arkansas is literally double that of California. Alabama's homicide rate is nearly three times that of California. California isn't perfect but it does most things a lot better than the rest of they US. Third longest life expectancy and seventh lowest rate of death by firearms of the 50 states. Not so bad. Not dystopian at all. More like sour grapes from fools who resent our success.

Judge Breyer just ruled that the Executive branch violated the 10th Amendment and Federal statute mobilizing the California National Guard without the Governor's permission and ordered them returned to state control by noon tomorrow, Friday.

California Proposition 187 (also known as the Save Our State (SOS) initiative) was a 1994 ballot initiative to establish a state-run citizenship screening system and prohibit illegal immigrants from using non-emergency health care, public education, and other services in the State of California.

And what happened to this proposition? The voters approved it 58.93% to 41.07%. But the law was deemed unconstitutional in federal district court by judge Mariana Pfaelzer, put in by Jimmy Carter, who said,

California is powerless to enact its own legislative scheme to regulate immigration. It is likewise powerless to enact its own legislative scheme to regulate alien access to public benefits.

This was later followed up in 2017 with California Senate Bill 54 which “is designed to prevent local law enforcement agencies from detaining undocumented immigrants who are eligible for deportation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for violating immigration laws except in cases where the undocumented immigrants have been convicted of serious or violent felonies, or of misdemeanors that can be classified as such felonies.” So California makes it rather explicit that it will not work to enforce federal immigration laws in a normative manner. It is therefore necessary for federal authorities to take more aggressive action in California since the state will not assist in enforcing the immigration laws of the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_California_Proposition_187

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Senate_Bill54(2017)

I am a native of California. But I do not agree with California ignoring federal immigration laws and giving illegal immigrants privileges, such as drivers licenses and access to government services. These people are committing a criminal act by being in the country illegally. It is not simply a matter that they forgot to pick up some documents. They are rightly called “illegal.” They are not to be rewarded for their illegal residency which is disrespectful to those immigrants who followed legal procedure to reside in the country legally. This is also not “racism,” as much as the enablers of illegal immigration want it to be to refocus the discussion away from the illegality of the residency of these people.

If people rely on protest methods of old they likely don't stand a chance. It's what Trump's co-conspirators were expecting when they planned Project 2025. Instead, the protestors should be coordinating nationwide boycotts of companies close to the administration. Financially disrupting the wealthy has much more potential than just hoping protests stay peaceful every night.

Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’

https://www.yahoo.com/news/troops-marines-deeply-troubled-la-100003038.html

Troops feel worse!

Ironically, Trump is going to reverse the crackdown to allow farmers and leisure businesses like hotels (his business) to exploit immigrants for the their bottom-line.

The majority of the people being arrested in the crack down!

access to government services

Like what?

followed legal procedure to reside in the country legally....

Um....they do but it seems ICE is going to places like immigration hearings to pick people up. They are even deporting Americans.

Soon as one these soldiers get sued,they will not gung ho,civil law has not been suspended