51 h. ago Trump deploys Marines to Florida as AOC goes into meltdown over new deportation powers: 'This is exploding'

Last month, he deployed 700 Marines to Los Angeles to contend with unruly anti-immigration protestors, sparking a furious response from California Governor Gavin Newsom .

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5 d. ago Military requesting to pull 200 troops back from California protest duty

The top military commander in charge of troops deployed to Los Angeles to respond to protests against immigration raids has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth if 200 of those forces could be returned to wildfire fighting duty

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1 week ago Sen. Tuberville leading push to make blocking roads a federal crime in bid to stop protests

The Alabama senator has also slammed California lawmakers for sitting ‘on their tails’ during the Los Angeles immigration protests, fueling calls for tough new legislation

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1 week ago What to know about debate over protesters and ICE agents wearing masks amid immigration crackdowns

People fearful of being arrested for wearing masks while protesting immigration raids in Los Angeles and other cities have voiced anger over Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents covering their faces

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1 week ago US senator Alex Padilla criticizes ‘petty’ JD Vance for calling him ‘Jose’

‘He knows my name,’ says California Democrat, as Newsom condemns US vice-president and challenges him to debateJD Vance’s decision to refer to California US senator Alex Padilla by the name of a terrorist conspirator showed how “unserious” the Trump administration is, the lawmaker has said of the vice-president.“He knows my name – he knows my name,” Padilla told MSNBC’s The Weekend on Saturday, 12 days after the FBI forcibly removed him from a 12 June news conference hosted by US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem amid anti-immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) protests in Los Angeles. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Disney CEO Bob Iger's dramatic move following LA protests that will be sure to infuriate Trump

Disney CEO Bob Iger is fighting Donald Trump through his women's soccer team, who have publicly protested the ICE raids on Los Angeles and the president's response to riots.

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2 w. ago LA protests: US court allows Trump to keep control of California national guard while lawsuit proceeds

Appeals court in San Francisco extends pause on district judge ruling that president called troops into federal service unlawfullyA US appeals court has let Donald Trump retain control over California’s national guard while the state’s Democratic governor proceeds with a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Republican president’s use of the troops to quell protests and unrest in Los Angeles.A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th US circuit court of appeals on Thursday extended a pause it had placed on US district Judge Charles Breyer’s 12 June ruling that Trump had called the national guard into federal service unlawfully. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago LA supervisor warns of ICE impersonators after masked men profile staffer’s godson

Alleged incident comes as California lawmakers push to ban federal agents from wearing masks amid aggressive Trump administration enforcement push

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2 w. ago Trump fans targets Crowds on Demand for alleged role in anti

PR firm accused of supplying ‘paid actors’ to bolster turnout at recent demonstrations

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2 w. ago Photos of downtown Los Angeles after mayor lifts curfew imposed during protests

Downtown Los Angeles businesses are hoping customers will return after Mayor Karen Bass lifted a curfew she had imposed last week to prevent vandalism and break-ins during nighttime protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

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2 w. ago 700 troops have been mobilized to help ICE in raids in Florida, Louisiana and Texas

The Trump administration mobilized troops to Los Angeles in response to anti-ICE protests earlier this month

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2 w. ago LA mayor ends curfew in Downtown a week after they were imposed

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has lifted the curfew that was imposed on downtown Los Angeles in response to clashes between protestors and police. The curfew was initially put in place on June 10, following protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

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2 w. ago Los Angeles mayor lifts downtown curfew she imposed during protests against immigration raids

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is lifting a curfew in downtown Los Angeles

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2 w. ago LA protests have cost the city nearly $20 million in police overtime and vandalism repairs

The protests, which broke out in Los Angeles on June 6, led to nearly $20 million in police overtime and vandalism costs, says city official

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2 w. ago Will the public side with the protesters in LA? Here are some lessons from history | Musa al

Social movements have long included some form of direct conflict with authorities. The key is whom the public blames for clashesOn 6 June, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) conducted aggressive raids in Los Angeles, sweeping up gainfully employed workers with no criminal record. This led to demonstrations outside the Los Angeles federal building. During these protests, David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) of California, was arrested alongside more than 100 others – leading to even larger demonstrations the next day.Donald Trump responded on 7 June by sending federal troops to Los Angeles to quell the protests without consulting Governor Gavin Newsom and, in fact, in defiance of Newsom’s wishes. This dramatic federal response, paired with increasingly aggressive tactics by local police, led to the protests growing larger and escalating in their intensity. They’ve begun spreading to other major cities, too.Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist ...

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2 w. ago America had open borders until 1924. Racism and corporate greed changed that | Daniel Mendiola

The primary justifications for early immigration laws were xenophobia, eugenics, and overt racism. Understanding the history of immigration is essentialThe US immigration system is a scam that dehumanizes people for profit. Communities across the country have had enough.The protests in Los Angeles have invited a long overdue conversation about the true nature of the US immigration system. While the immediate catalysts for the protests were ramped up Ice raids attempting to meet Donald Trump’s arbitrary deportation quotas, the protests spring from a deeper history. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Right back at ya! Trump’s crude but effective rhetorical standby | Chris Taylor

The president has spent the past decade employing a familiar tactic. Accusing protesters of ‘insurrection’ is just the latest exampleDonald Trump and his allies wasted little time in branding the people protesting against immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles as “insurrectionists”. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy – particularly the vindictive kind – spoke darkly of a “violent insurrection”. JD Vance, the vice-president, inveighed against “insurrectionists carrying foreign flags” on the streets of the nation’s second-biggest city.It didn’t escape notice that an insurrection was exactly what the president was accused of instigating on 6 January 2021, when the flag being paraded through the Capitol was that of the Confederate secessionists. And that Trump hadn’t shown quite the same enthusiasm for sending in the troops then.Chris Taylor is a subeditor at the Guardian US and author of The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the ...

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2 w. ago Police deploy tear gas as ‘No Kings’ protesters rally against Trump

Tensions escalated during "No Kings" protests against Donald Trump on the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, 14 June, as police sought to disperse demonstrators with abrupt orders to leave.

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3 w. ago LA chopper reporter elicits laughs and concern for deadpan coverage of 'No Kings Day' protests

Stu Mundel, a reporter with FOX 11 Los Angeles, covered the 'No Kings Day' protests in LA, but not without talking about struggles in his personal life and his love for various types of booze.

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3 w. ago ‘No Kings’ protests live updates: Thousands rally across US to protest Trump as LA keeps curfew to quell chaos

Day of action comes after week-long protests in Los Angeles against Trump’s hard-line immigration policies and ICE raids on immigrants

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