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Protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles.
National Guard troops in Los Angeles yesterday.Credit…Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times
Tensions flared at protests in Los Angeles
After clashes over immigration raids, President Trump ordered at least 2,000 National Guard troops to be deployed on the streets of Los Angeles. About 300 troops arrived in the city yesterday, and hundreds more were on the way. Here’s the latest.
Law enforcement officials fired tear gas and crowd-control ammunition at protesters outside a detention center in downtown Los Angeles. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California accused the Trump administration of a “serious breach of state sovereignty” for deploying the National Guard.
Trump made rare use of federal powers to deploy the Guard without Newsom’s consent, saying that any demonstration that got in the way of immigration officials would be considered “a form of rebellion.” Newsom, a Democrat, called Trump’s decision “purposefully inflammatory.”
“It is the fight President Trump had been waiting for,” my colleague Tyler Pager writes in this analysis, “a showdown with a top political rival in a deep blue state over an issue core to his political agenda.”
Background: The protests first erupted in the downtown area and then in Paramount, a small city south of Los Angeles with a large Latino population. Here’s a visual timeline of the immigration protests.
Related: Trump’s immigration crackdown has put a damper on next year’s World Cup. Some soccer fans fear being targets of U.S. immigration raids.
