The U.S. military will temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles until more National Guard troops can arrive, marking another escalation in President Donald Trump's response to street protests over his aggressive immigration policies.
Tensions have been rising since Trump activated the National Guard on Saturday after street protests erupted in response to immigration raids in Southern California. It is the biggest flashpoint yet in the Trump administration's aggressive efforts to deport migrants living in the country illegally.
The announcement that Marines would be deployed was made on the fourth straight day of protests. Late on Monday police began to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who gathered outside a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles where immigrants have been held.
National Guard forces had formed a human barricade to keep people out of the building. Then a phalanx of Los Angeles police moved up the street, starting to push people from the scene and firing "less lethal" munitions such as gas canisters. Police had used similar tactics since Friday.
The LAPD said late on Monday afternoon that some protestors had started throwing objects at officers and the use of less lethal munitions had been authorized, adding in an X post: "Less lethal munitions may cause pain and discomfort."
California sued the Trump administration to block deployment of the National Guard and the Marines on Monday, arguing that it violates federal law and state sovereignty.
U.S. Marines have been deployed domestically for major disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the September 11, 2001, attacks, but it is extremely rare for U.S. military troops to be used for domestic policing.
For now, the Trump administration was not invoking the Insurrection Act, which would allow troops to directly participate in civilian law enforcement, according to a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Pentagon confirmed on Monday that a contingent of 2,000 National Guard troops would be doubled to 4,000. Trump said on Monday he felt he had no choice but to increase the level of force to prevent violence from spiraling out of control.
Trump also said he supported a suggestion by his border czar Tom Homan that California Governor Gavin Newsom should be arrested over possible obstruction of his administration's immigration enforcement measures. "I would do it if I were Tom. I think it's great," Trump told reporters.
Democrats said Trump's decision to deploy military force to handle the protests amounts to an abuse of presidential power, and California's lawsuit claimed it was illegal.
"The level of escalation is completely unwarranted, uncalled for, and unprecedented," Newsom's press office said on X.
FOUR DAYS OF PROTESTS
The protests so far have resulted in a few dozen arrests and some property damage, including some self-driving Waymo vehicles that were set ablaze on Sunday evening. The Los Angeles Police Department said five officers sustained minor injuries on Saturday and Sunday, as did five police horses used in crowd control.
Before the police intervention on Monday, several hundred protesters chanted "free them all" outside the Los Angeles federal detention facility where immigrants have been held.
"What is happening effects every American, everyone who wants to live free, regardless of how long their family has lived here," said Marzita Cerrato, 42, a first-generation immigrant whose parents are from Mexico and Honduras.
Some in the crowd punched and tossed eggs at a Trump supporter at the event, while others fired paintballs from a car at the federal building.
Protests also sprang up in at least nine other U.S. cities on Monday, including New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco, according to local news outlets.
The Trump administration has argued that Democratic President Joe Biden's administration allowed far too many immigrants to enter the country and that Democratic-run cities such as Los Angeles are improperly interfering with efforts to deport them. Trump has pledged to deport record numbers of people who are in the country illegally and to lock down the U.S.-Mexico border, setting a goal of at least 3,000 daily arrests.
Trump can deploy Marines under certain conditions of law or under his authority as commander in chief.
The last time the military was used for direct police action under the Insurrection Act was in 1992, when the California governor at the time asked President George H.W. Bush to help respond to Los Angeles riots over the acquittal of police officers who beat Black motorist Rodney King.
More than 50 people were killed in the 1992 riots, which also caused some $1 billion in damage over six days.
Federal law allows the president to deploy the National Guard if the nation is invaded, if there is "rebellion or danger of rebellion," or the president is "unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States."
© Thomson Reuters 2025.
139 Comments
JJE
Newsome is not above the law - that was simply the point Trump and others made.
Nor does he get to set federal immigration law.
Certain elements are pretending LBJ didn't federalize a state NG over the objections of the governor in 1965.
The escalation ladder is going up as these riots become more and more violent. LAPD chief even said they are "out of control". This upsurge in intensity is starting to resemble an insurgency. FBI has put up large ca$h rewards for information on offenders on their website.
If Newsome thinks this raises his national profile in any positive way, he is surely sadly fooling himself - the rest of America doesn't want to be turned into his California and has been watching on in disgust. Same for democrats in general.
Tamarama
Situation normal in the US - FUBAR.
JJE
Current reports indicate an 'official source' said they are sending in the Marines, with the number bumped up to 700 & on their way. What this means for the escalation ladder is uncertain and the Insurrection Act hasn't been invoked. Described as "*tasked with a support role, helping law enforcement only*."
TaiwanIsNotChina
With legal authority from reconstruction era laws, the russian leaves out.
GuruMick
Americans hate each other....just admit it.
You never saw a disagreement that couldn't be solved with violence.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Protestors should should make use of their legal masks on their activities.
TaiwanIsNotChina
The pronouncement that Trump would like to see some governors arrested shows us all who he really is.
BakaFugu
Always seems odd that they wave the flag of a foreign nation they are adamantly against being sent to.
Hercolobus
Yes
Rez
Trump actively trying to incite an open rebellion against him, so he can declare an emergency and enact martial law. His grip on reality is fading and he's gonna drag the US down with him.
bass4funk
Yes, that will make it more easier to arrest them.
geronimo2006
Time for Trump to start going after his political opponents - the so-called enemy within. The radical left. All he needs is the judges behind him and it's game over. I'm sure he will try to put maximum pressure on them to comply through threats and coercion. Further street protests, violent or peaceful, will provide the perfect context for the clampdown which will apply to all forms of dissent.
wallace
Massive Trump overkill.
Jay
That's EXTREMELY rich coming from Newsom, who was never held accountable for his unmistakable authoritarianism in California from 2020 onwards. Small businesses were shut down for months while he dined maskless at the French Laundry. Kids were kept out of school far longer than necessary, setting back education and mental health. He enforced some of the most draconian vaccine mandates and unscientific lockdowns in the country, but selectively ignored his own rules.
It's time to pay Gavin!
bass4funk
No, correct response
max-velocity
700 Marines send to LA. Military boots on the ground.
itsonlyrocknroll
Cars go up in flames as anti-ICE protests, clashes with authorities continue in downtown Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU2Fh5f5tfU
These are not protests.
This is a political insurgency, violent resistance against democratically elected government, to create maximum political disorder, revolt, rebellion.
Now quell this behaviour.
There has to be, whether in agreement with President Trump actions or not, an independent criminal investigation into the behaviours action taken by California governor Gavin Newsom, also Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass failure, negligence in office,
The charges associated with deliberately, actively, politically provocation that led to widespread looting, rioting, insurgence, arson.
Instead of condemning the rioting, mayhem, Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass emboldened wide spread violent disorder, chaos.insurgency revolt.
Nifty
Interestingly, border czars are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. At all.
plasticmonkey
Trump on January 6, 2021 sat and watched TV while the Capitol was overrun by violent protesters doing his bidding.
Now Trump uses the military to suppress those who oppose his draconian and indiscriminate roundups.
Trump and Stephen G. Miller want to escalate the situation. Miller because he hates all non-white immigrants. Trump because he wants to be Emperor of the World.
plasticmonkey
Both have condemned the violence.
Sorry if that fact damages your narrative about “the left”.
John-San
So excited to awake up again to see Trump utterly destroying the USD then to found out that he more concerned about a few flag way Mexican in LA and turns into a magafest to make himself look in control. This is a dream. How fast can one people utterly destroy the USD with Asia dumping 2.5 trillion that is Trillion in the next few days yahoo. BRU Ha USA
bass4funk
And? What does have have to with LA being burned down….again?
When you impede an officer of the Federal Government with the orders to apprehend an illegal or person of criminal conduct, and you physically attack them as well, yes.
No, Newsom and Bass are
Yeah, that weak argument is just not working anymore for the left.
wallace
That is not happening. The protests are in a minimal area. Most of the protesters are peaceful.
obladi
well, at least the breakup with Elon is no longer the top News. I'm sure Trump has a goal in mind, right?
bass4funk
That is happening
Really now?
https://x.com/immeme0/status/1931892841342484714?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ
https://x.com/alexterego79/status/1931964284436668655?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ
You don’t know what you’re talking about
Ah_so
Marines are now being deployed in California - the first military occupation of a state by the army, I think. And all over some relatively minor riots in the grand scheme of things (which Trump partially engineered).
And with that, I think it's pretty safe to say that the nearly 250 years of comstitional democracy, with all its checks and balances; a constitution that everyone on the US pledges allegiance to at some point, is pretty much dead.
It has taken Trump about 5 months to turn the US into a dictatorship. And this is just the start.
But of course there will be patriotic Americans who will cheer this on, not realising that it is they who have betrayed the constitution.
itsonlyrocknroll
Trump has pledged to deport record numbers of people who are in the country illegally and to lock down the U.S.-Mexico border, setting the ICE border enforcement agency a daily goal of arresting at least 3,000 migrants.
This pledge policy was clearly demonstrably communicated, put to the US electorate 5th November 2024, the people overwhelming agreed at the ballot box.
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris reckless open borders policy, allowing people child smuggling, the flood of deadly fentanyl, a seemingly endless stream of undocumented illegal immigrants, many subsequently identified as cartel members to be firmly rejected at the ballot box.
Now round them up, and forcefully expel the poison
Ah_so
But I imagine that Trump will try to pardon the rioters, because that's what he does - he's pardoned a lot of rioters this year.
wallace
Your X-linked videos show cars on fire, but not LA burning down, which was your claim. They also don't show the people who were peaceful protesters.
plasticmonkey
The national guard is not necessary in this situation. Trump and Stephen G. Miller just want a drama.
How many national crises has Trump declared so far? How many invasions?
bass4funk
Minor? Not sure about overseas, but in the U.S., the minor is a major, my kids think that not cleaning their rooms is a minor thing, I disagree, it’s major, clean it up or I will. It’s that simple.
You can say that about Blue states, it seems they have wholeheartedly embraced Marxism to the max
No, not even close
No, it has nothing to do with being patriotic, it has to do with law and order-period! In not doing so would be betraying the constitution.
TheDalaiLamasBifocals
‘Thank you for your service’ is the US mantra of hollow patriotism. It is as compulsory as the flag decals on pickup trucks. But in the end, the armed forces aren't defenders of freedom, they’re employees of the state. And when push comes to shove, as history has shown from Kent State to Standing Rock, they’ll aim their rifles where the paycheck tells them to. It's not loyalty to the people. It’s loyalty to the chain of command.
TaiwanIsNotChina
We didn't even make it five months without troops on the streets. Sure glad we don't have to deal with Sleepy Joe.
bass4funk
You really can’t.
They are necessary, Bass and Newsom had their chance, once they allowed the ICE agents to be attacked, all bets were off. Trump tried to follow the libs advice and pull back bringing in the National Guard back in 2020 in Seattle, and look what happened! He’s not making that mistake again
As many as he needs to.
Bob Fosse
Can’t blame our Japan based maga patriots for leaving the US. I wouldn’t want to live there either.
bass4funk
Lol
ROFL
TaiwanIsNotChina
But not putting active duty military on the streets and infringing on civil liberties to do so.
Ah_so
This narrative is such balloney - anyone who has seen footage of the windows being broken as the first rioters entered, or the battle of tunnel will know this.
Yes, after the small force protecting the Capitol there was overwhelmed, others just walked in. But just as you can see old photos of German officers enjoying coffee in cafés in occupied Paris, they weren't welcomed in.
What I don't know is whether you really haven't seen footage of the assault or you are pushing a misinformation narrative.
While this might be seen as a little off-topic, it is relevant, because they're still be a huge misinformation narrative pushed by the right to justify whatever Trump does next.
TaiwanIsNotChina
They are not patriotic. They are loyal to MAGA only until the Trump administration hits them in the face.
itsonlyrocknroll
plasticmonkey,
California governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass failure, has spent every waking hour, politically weaponizing a means to provoke widespread rebellion, this blatant act of provocation has led to open acts of arson.
Violent revolt.
The link I posted above is undeniable.
Clear evidence of unrestrained acts of violent public disorder.
JJE
David Huerta, mentioned in the article, has just been released from federal custody - on a $50 grand bond after being charged with impeding an officer. He has been in the slammer since last Friday. The felony charge carries up to 6 years in prison says the relevant US Attorney's office.
TaiwanIsNotChina
The relevant part there is he didn't even last 48 hours in custody.
TaiwanIsNotChina
*do 48 hours in custody
Underworld
Trump wants violence. He wants an excuse to call for martial law.
Therefore he is characterizing this as violent protests, when they are overwhelmingly peaceful.
TaiwanIsNotChina
What are you on about? Newsom and Bass ordered the raids in the most hispanic areas of LA?
Blacklabel
Yep.
“No one is above the law”” wasn’t it?
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
Incorrect. Newsom and Bass have emphasized peaceful protest only.
Not sure where you get your facts from.
Blacklabel
nobody buying that.
we have eyes,
Underworld
Blacklabel
Trump's calling up the National Guard without working with Newsom is illegal.
Peppermint
Astute responses. Saying something while actually saying nothing. I’m totally convinced.
Underworld
BlacklabelToday 07:26 am JST
Therefore he is characterizing this as violent protests, when they are overwhelmingly peaceful.
Of course you aren't. Because it doesn't help your narrative.
But it is the truth.
And you keep one of them closed.
itsonlyrocknroll
TaiwanIsNotChina,
No other available action or choice for democratically elected government, other than to restore the people faith in law and order.
Trust and respect for law and order are crucial for a stable and functional society.
This is a fundamental for public safety.
California governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass must be held accountable for any failures in office, that lead up contributed to what is being witnessed, the destruction, criminality.
bass4funk
Because I’m not buying that crap, whatever, I’m just happy that Trump is cleaning this up, Newsom and Bass had their chance. They can’t stop this, they won’t stop the administration, so the left can argue all day long, the WH is not pulling back.
TaiwanIsNotChina
We're not going to be a democracy by the end of this month if the troops aren't removed via court order. What we are seeing is from Trump is Putin level evil.
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
It doesn't help when you have a weaponized ICE aggressively arresting non-violent undocumented immigrants. It divides the communities that these people live in.
These ICE actions lack respect for the community.
Indeed. Dial down the ICE aggression.
The only person responsible is Trump and Stephen Miller for weaponizing ICE and upsetting communities in California.
Blacklabel
Peaceful fire. Peaceful commercial grade fireworks. Peaceful concrete and bricks. Peaceful hammers. Peaceful window smashing, peaceful looting. Peaceful vandalism. Peaceful spitting. Peaceful riding of motorcycles into people.
nobody that stupid, my man.
plasticmonkey
More nonsense.
Yep. The police can arrest anyone committing violence. And they are.
No need for the National Guard or Marines.
Is Trump going to show up holding a Bible like he did at Lafayette Park? Imagine the MAGA optics!
JJE
US Northern Command press release just now:
There you have it: Title 10, which incidentally democrat LBJ did in 1965 against the wishes of a certain state governor and his lawlessness.
Whether the 'lead agency' is ICE or what that may look like, the civil disturbance escalation ladder has definitely gone up a few rungs.
NOMINATION
Nothing shows American patriotism like waving Venezuela, Honduras and Mexico flags.
plasticmonkey
More binary thinking. "Some violent protesters = All of them violent protesters"
It's not a national emergency or an "invasion". Trump is exceeding his authority.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Obligatory correction of the russian that LBJ was enforcing a court order. And no marines involved either.
itsonlyrocknroll
California governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, must be subject to scrutiny, to be held accountable for action that inflamed rioting, insurrection.
Be brought in front of a politically independent judiciary, a statutory inquiry under oath, public investigation for a failure of office.
bass4funk
Summed up Newsom and Bass, exactly.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/07/us-news/dhs-claims-lapd-waited-2-hours-to-respond-to-protests-over-immigration-raids/
Well, NOW it’s too late
The President doesn’t agree.
Blacklabel
It’s telling that 2 days ago the story was “no one is waving Mexican flags!! Stop lying!”
by tomorrow it’s gonna be “yeah they are violently protesting- but so what?”
so btw, why are Mexican flags being waved by foreign nationals on US soil?
TaiwanIsNotChina
I find it quite strange that you are against a Putin takeover of Eastern Europe but in favor of a Trump takeover over America.
Blacklabel
Did you see that Nike store get looted? Never fails.
JJE
Trump's enforcing an election result and federal immigration law.
bass4funk
2020 will not happen again, No summer of love. Will not happen. I applaud this President for taking serious and swift action.
TaiwanIsNotChina
The other really sad thing about this is that CNN and MSNBC continue to sleep on this story. We are getting Blake Lively nonsense while the republic is dying.
TaiwanIsNotChina
You're right it is going to be much worse in terms of violence and property destruction.
plasticmonkey
Time to invoke the Insurrection Act!
Yrral
Plane ,Tanks and Armored vehicles,if it an emergency,why is Trump using the military for personal use,for a parade
WhatsAllThisThen
The Left vs Right Paradigm keeps us from looking Up. Those responding to the protests with authoritarianism are the same ones funding the protests. Problem Reaction Solution. Tip toe into totalitarianism.
Blacklabel
“Some” violent protesters makes the whole thing violent, doesn’t it?
anyone, especially ish government officials, who incite or support violence is also guilty of a crime, right?
that was the previous leftist narratives, did it change?
chotto_2
Not sending anyone into the red states, is he?
Didn';t send any to sort out the insurrection on Jan 6th, 2021, did he?
America is finished. Just 'how' finished it can be remains to be seen.
Americans have lost their country of old, for good.
It may 'recover' but it won't be the same.
Yrral
It ,you have no knowledge of America judicial law, Trump is not a king ,he can't arrest people by declaration
plasticmonkey
Ergo, the National Guard and Marines must be deployed.
Those Mexican flags clearly mean the U.S. is being invaded by Mexico.
Alien Enemies Act!
Blacklabel
any American citizen waving Mexican flags is free to go “home”.
Any illegal doing the same is free to be detained and deported.
win/win.
Rez
Easy it's the heritage foundation and project 2025. Mass deportations, nationalizing the federal guard, waging war on the justice system that might protect people, all of it was planned out. All to instill dictator Trump and pull exactly like what happened in South Korea. Migrants are just the enemy of the month.
Peppermint
Now dealing in hypotheticals. LOL! :-P
Yrral
These Mexican are not going down without a fight,they can mobilize 10 of thousands
JJE
All boils down to this: The current administration takes the factual position that it does not need a permission slip from Gavin Newsome to enforce federal laws.
Moreover, this would look different if the state and local authorities were cooperating with the relevant federal agencies on the discharge of their duties from the get-go.
So, very appropriate in examining his role and whether that was a provoking factor in these riots, by his policies and conduct, whether inadvertent or not.
bass4funk
No, try again
Trump said this on the campaign trail this is what he would do, you thought he was joking?
So why didn’t the Marxists quell the unrest?
Ok, back to reality now.
bass4funk
Exactly, because it wouldn’t happen
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
Trump and Stephen Miller must be subject to scrutiny, to be held accountable for action that inflamed rioting, insurrection.
Rez
Reality is only thing Trump supporters refuse to face. That he is the most corrupt anti democratic president in US history. That his policies harm millions of Americans and incite greater division and chaos. Such actions are destructive for America that's plain and simple. Far more than any damage having hard ass working migrants running around.
Underworld
JJE
If Trump wants to call out the National Guard, he does. Fact.
The provoking factor was the weaponization of ICE.
NOMINATION
Very stereotypical when people categorize all Hispanic people as Mexican.
itsonlyrocknroll
TaiwanIsNotChina
Frankly don’t support Donald Trump in a number of policies.
Ukraine is one, also the speed of these Tariffs, the “big beautiful bill” needs to be fully understood, communicated clearly to the voter’s public, the wrinkles. are evident
The need to address the public concern for undocumented illegal immigration, the child people trafficking, the flood of fentanyl, the need for ICE to carry out an oath duty to protect US communities must not be violently blocked.
That is my humble opinion.
buchailldana
Is black white here and white black?
Trump rails against people wearing masks
Mostly the ICE thugs arresting people without a warrant.
Then added to this talking about arresting anyone who impedes a law enforcement officer, this from the felon who pardoned all the January 6th rioters.
The party of justice blatantly breaking the law.
It's madness.
Don't let him get away with it
Blacklabel
The federal government took action to follow or our immigration law. after state and local did nothing and didn’t even protect their own law enforcement personnel from violence.
The same federal government headed by the man that was elected by our people to do exactly such.
mass deportation of illegals has 80% approval rating.
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
These ICE officers aren't going after child people traffickers or fentanyl smugglers.
They are going after undocumented immigrants who have committed no crimes.
BeerDeliveryGuy
This isn’t the first time LA rioted, and it won’t be the last.
1943, Zoot Suit Riots
1965, Watts Riots
1992, Rodney King Riots
Peppermint
ROFL!
Hideyoshi.N
Crazy videos from LA in news. Violent rioter attacking police cars with rock, concrete, burn cars, break windows, spray grafitti , burning American flag. President Trump restore oreder.it is natural.
Rez
All he has to do is quit trying to invade neighborhoods and disrupting American lives and people who are trying to become an American's lives.
Wasabi
Yes, trump is a dictator.
wallace
Trump has ordered another 2,000 National Guard members to LA, bringing the total to 4,000 guards and 700 Marines. MAGA says that's not overkill. We all know how Trump hates LA.
Underworld
wallace
Pouring gasoline on the weaponized ICE fire.
NOMINATION
and the anti-Trump crowd says it is all peaceful and/or deserved. People who are attacked doing their jobs and/or having their property destroyed and looted is perfectly justified. They think rioting is going to win them the midterms lol
stormcrow
“it doesn’t have to be this way. This crisis has been completely manufactured by Donald Trump. . . . If they get away with this, this sets the stage for this to happen in every corner of the country.”
California Sen. Alex Padilla
bass4funk
Yes
So you’re saying that these agents should go rogue and not follow directive orders
Absolutely!!
Yes
Breaking the law to uphold it, ok..
So he should let anarchy run amok??? You guys…smh
lincolnman
Those outside the MAGA cult knew it - that electing Trump again would lead us on a path towards authoritarianism and a dismantling of our democracy....we just didn't think it would happen so quickly...
A felon convicted on 34 counts suggesting a governor be arrested...
It boggles the mind...and Trump's Master in the Kremlin just giggles...
Blacklabel
Which of those groups are these violent people waving Mexican flags, setting fires and attacking law enforcement with concrete, bricks and fireworks?
Yrral
LA is made up of majority Mexican population,
Peter Neil
The National Guard wasn’t involved in any of the enforcement actions during the protests. Only local law enforcement.
Only 300 of the original 2,000 Guardsmen called up showed up. There seems to be significant resistance within the Guard to their deployment.
Marines can’t “help” local law enforcement. It’s against the law. Posse Comitatus prohibits it. They can protect federal buildings.
Pretty quiet in LA today. The people torching cars had nothing to do with the demonstrations. They were just punks.
Trump is doing more to fan the flames than anyone, and he knows it. It’s intentional.
There’s a video out there of LAPD on horseback pummeling a person alone on an empty street. Having their horses kick and walk over him, hitting him with batons from their horses, then throwing him down and continuously punching him on the ground.
No sign, not demonstrating, just walking. This is what happens no one with a phone is around. Too many police are out of control.
lincolnman
Just one example of the blatant hypocrisy and flip-floppery of MAGA world...
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.
Sick, sick, sick....
itsonlyrocknroll
Underworld,
If people enter a country as an illegal undocumented immigrant, the act alone is unlawful.
Progress though a port of entry, state your case for wanting to remain.
Accept the process.
Rez
Any real American would fight the government trying to seize them, their house, and their family without due process. Then try to deport them to a country where they have no ties or job or way to live.
Blacklabel
there is video out there of protesters “peacefully” shooting commercial grade fireworks at the horses to injure/startle them to throw off the officers.
I hope it was one or all of those exact people who got pummeled/trampled.
Team Horse here.
Yrral
Nomination,when Mexican are the deciding vote,they will learn the error of the ways,for voting for MAGA
Tokyo Guy
I suppose the upside to all this is that, outside of the cult, it is now clear as day that we are looking at straight up dictator behaviour. Arresting political enemies, using the army against your own countrymen, hinting at a third term, attempting to invalidate habeas corpus, and on it goes.
Now the country's split between MAGA (who want all the above to happen), democrats (who don't), and non-MAGA republicans, who seem to be on the fence.
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
Sure, but if they enter a country as a child who isn't responsible for their actions, and is now unlawfully in that country through no fault of their own, is it ethical to deport them to a country they know nothing of?
Should we be cracking down hard on these types of people?
Rez
Shame on the LAPD for abusing a horse by bring it into a hostile environment. It wouldn't naturally be there with out them shamelessly abusing this animal.
GuruMick
Someone above posted the old " the great majority of Americans voted for Trump "
And I cant help but return serve with around 33% of eligible voters voted for Trump.
"A great majority of one third "
Mates from across the sea....your country is in BIG TROUBLE and it is not illegal Latinos working on farms .
Peter Neil
Nope, not a person dropping fireworks.
Team rule of law here.
XCAndtheband
Spare me the fake outrage from the MAGA side. They don’t care about “law and order”. They just want authoritarianism and kicking out immigrants. They love rioting for non-issues, especially when it’s in service of white people or Donald Trump.
Blacklabel
the country they are literally CITIZENS OF?
so of course it’s the police fault for bringing the horses that violent protesters shot fireworks at? Leftist insanity.
ok so same logic, you don’t want to get any actions from police in a violent riot zone? Stay home.
Peter Neil
The demonstrations are about DOCUMENTED immigrants being snatched. People who were admitted and following the rules on appearing periodically to court because the process is long. They even had temporary work permits until their status could be made permanent. They committed no crimes. Just people washing dishes and paying taxes.
Turn off Fox News sometime.
Rez
Police have a choice in what they do poor animals dont.
Their not fighting to go back are they? America was built on the backs of immigrants and we better be damn well grateful to those that want to live here. They're upholding American values far more than Trump is.
NOMINATION
Majority come from Latin American countries that includes Mexico.
lincolnman
Trump ups the hype and provocations...why?
Because he doesn't want people to focus on this;
*“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote in his initial X post Tuesday *blasting the legislation, calling it a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled . . . disgusting abomination” and adding “shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong.”
Musk also threaten Republicans who voted for the bill, warning that “in November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people.”
Or this...
*Time to drop the really big bomb:@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.*
Or this;
*The Pentagon’s watchdog is looking into whether any of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aides were asked to delete Signal messages that may have shared sensitive military information with a reporter, according to two people familiar with the investigation and documents reviewed by The Associated Press.*
Dancing Donald doing his best to enflame the LA situation to deflect from all his scandals and failures...
Rez
He speaks the truth anything to get eyes of of the hundreds of investigations into the corruption and illegal actions from Trump's administration. May he be judged harshly and without mercy.
wallace
"The City of Los Angeles has a population of around 4 million. Of those, around 49% are Latino and the Mexican population is estimated to be around 30% (give or take). If you extrapolate, that's around 1.2 million Mexicans."
itsonlyrocknroll
U.S. Citizen Children Impacted by Immigration Enforcement
Millions of U.S.-citizen children have undocumented parents and family members.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/us-citizen-children-impacted-immigration-enforcement
4.4 million U.S.-citizen children under the age of 18 lived with at least one undocumented parent as of 2018.
6.1 million U.S.-citizen children under the age of 18 lived with an undocumented family member as of 2018.
As many as half-a-million U.S.-citizen children experienced the deportation of at least one parent from 2011 through 2013.
As of 2017, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders from El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti had an estimated 273,000 U.S.-citizen children. If these TPS designations are terminated, many of these parents will become undocumented.
17.8 million children in the United States had at least one foreign-born parent, including parents who were naturalized citizens, lawfully present immigrants, or undocumented immigrants, as of 2019.
Not a night follow day solution here. Which make the issue of securing borders paramount.
However, ICE still have a job to do
Tokyo Guy
our policies were also better than “yours”.
Stripping healthcare from millions, dividing the country like never before, selling out to a Russian dictator, wasting tons of time and money on Musk's grossly inefficient "doge" stunt...and you think these are better policies than what the democrats were proposing.
Why not come straight out and say you want a dictatorship with Trump at its head? You'll feel better.
browny1
Posted a coupla days ago a lean on Neil Young's words
"Tin soldiers and Trump coming, We're finally on our own..."
It's come to pass.
Not Funnier and Funnier.
Crazier and Crazier - heading to killing Mockingbirds.
itsonlyrocknroll
Tom Homan responds to Gavin Newsom's 'dare' to arrest him: 'No one's above the law'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPg1jZEWxi8
Some of the latest news
Fountain
'No one's above the law'”
Sex criminal and felon Trump appears to be.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Animals only understand violence and that applies to this administration escalating things to the max for chuckles.
Blacklabel
What are “bionic face shields” and who paid $60 each and then drove to the violent riot site and passed them out free by the dozens?
doesn’t sound like peaceful protesting is on the menu.
Blacklabel
Mexican President:
stop deporting our illegal citizens! They migrate out of need and send resources to their families from there!
this seriously ruins the “fear for my life so I need asylum” narrative.
And the not just coming for jobs narrative.
and the “they don’t know anybody in their country, they not from there!” narrative
as well as the “family separation narrative”, as they are sending USA money to their families…in Mexico.
Underworld
Blacklabel
He has a good point. These undocumented imigrants are a win-win for both the US and Mexico.
No it doesn't. The people who are seeking asylum, are in fear of their life.
Blacklabel
yet they leave their families there to receive money?
nope. Nonsensical.
Hideyoshi.N
Why these protesters use so much violence such as attack police cars , break shops windows and steal things, burn cars, wave mexican flag and burn American flags then? IF wave Mexican flag and burn American why not go to Mexico? Nobody can accept this violence against police and public property.
Fountain
“No it doesn't. The people who are seeking asylum, are in fear of their life
These words will fall on dead ears. The MAGAts are incapable of any feelings except those of hate, revenge, pettiness and cruelty.
Just read the multiple daily postings of the JT MAGAts to see this.
Blacklabel
They realized waving the Mexican flag was getting valid criticism.
so they bought US flags and passed them out instead.
But in the miscommunication the protesters burned the US flags instead of waving them in fake patriotism.
sad.
Blacklabel
“LAPD just SURROUNDED a group of rioters and told them they’re ALL under arrest
And you can hear the rioters immediately start crying.”
more of this, please.
deanzaZZR
Who's next?
Australian reporter covering LA protests hit by rubber bullet
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/us/video/nine-news-reporter-la-hit-rubber-bullet-digvid