Trump and CA Governor Newsom clash over deployment of National Guard in LA

By&nbspEuronews&nbspwith&nbspAP

Published on 08/06/2025 - 11:51 GMT+2

Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles complete nan objections of Governor Gavin Newsom aft a 2nd time of clashes betwixt hundreds of protesters and national migration authorities successful riot gear.

Newsom wrote connected societal media: “The national authorities is creating chaos truthful it tin person an excuse to escalate things. This is not nan measurement immoderate civilised state behaves”.

He described nan determination to deploy nan National Guard arsenic a “deliberate and cowardly” action, adding that it would “only escalate tensions.”

Trump reacted to Gavin Newsom successful a posting connected his “Truth Social” level connected Saturday, writing, “If Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles can't fulfill their duties that everyone knows they can't, past nan national authorities will measurement successful and lick nan problem of rioters and looters nan measurement it needs to beryllium solved!!!”

Confrontations collapsed retired connected Saturday adjacent a Home Depot successful nan heavy Latino metropolis of Paramount, southbound of Los Angeles, wherever national agents were staging astatine a Department of Homeland Security agency nearby. Agents unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and capsicum balls, and protesters hurled rocks and cement astatine Border Patrol vehicles. Smoke wafted from mini piles of burning garbage successful nan streets.

Tensions were precocious aft a bid of sweeps by migration authorities nan erstwhile day, including successful LA's manner territory and astatine a Home Depot, arsenic nan weeklong tally of migrant arrests successful nan metropolis climbed past 100. A salient national leader was arrested while protesting and accused of impeding rule enforcement.

The White House announced that Trump would deploy nan Guard to “address nan lawlessness that has been allowed to fester.” It wasn't clear erstwhile nan troops would arrive.

In a awesome of nan administration's fierce approach, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to deploy nan U.S. military.

“If unit continues, active-duty Marines astatine Camp Pendleton will besides beryllium mobilized — they are connected precocious alert,” Hegseth said connected X.

Trump's bid came aft clashes successful Paramount and neighboring Compton, wherever a car was group connected fire. Protests continued into nan evening successful Paramount, pinch respective 100 demonstrators gathered adjacent a doughnut shop, and authorities holding up barbed ligament to support nan crowd back.

Crowds besides gathered again extracurricular national buildings successful downtown Los Angeles, including a detention center, wherever section constabulary declared an unlawful assembly and began to apprehension people.

Standoff successful Paramount

Earlier successful Paramount, migration officers faced disconnected pinch demonstrators astatine nan entranceway to a business park, crossed from nan backmost of a Home Depot. They group disconnected fireworks and pulled shopping carts into nan street, collapsed up cinder blocks and pelted a convoy of Border Patrol vans arsenic they departed and careened down a boulevard.

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said national agents made much arrests of group pinch deportation orders connected Saturday, but nary astatine nan Home Depot. The Department of Homeland Security has a building adjacent doorway and agents were staging location arsenic they prepared to transportation retired operations, he said connected Fox11 Los Angeles. He didn't opportunity really galore group were arrested Saturday aliases where.

Paramount Mayor Peggy Lemons told aggregate news outlets that organization members showed up successful consequence because group are fearful astir activity by migration agents.

“When you grip things nan measurement that this appears to beryllium handled, it’s not a astonishment that chaos would follow,” Lemons said.

Some demonstrators jeered astatine officers while signaling nan events connected smartphones.

“ICE retired of Paramount. We spot you for what you are,” a female said done a megaphone. “You are not invited here.”

More than a twelve group were arrested and accused of impeding migration agents, Essayli posted connected X, including nan names and mug shots of immoderate of those arrested. He didn't opportunity wherever they were protesting.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful a connection that nan activity nan migration authorities were doing erstwhile met pinch protests is “essential to halting and reversing nan penetration of forbidden criminals into nan United States. In nan aftermath of this violence, California’s feckless Democrat leaders person wholly abdicated their work to protect their citizens.”

The president’s move came soon aft he issued a threat connected his societal media web saying that if Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass did not “do their jobs,” past “the Federal Government will measurement successful and lick nan problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, nan measurement it should beryllium solved!!!”

Speaking connected TV position ABC7, Bass said that “we surely want to make nan opportunities disposable for group to workout their First Amendment rights, but nan infinitesimal that things move to unit ... that is not acceptable and group are going to beryllium held accountable.”

She said she had spoken pinch members of nan Trump management and insisted that she and Newsom were successful power and location was nary request for nan National Guard to beryllium deployed.

Arrests successful Los Angeles

Protests kicked disconnected a time earlier successful Los Angeles aft national authorities arrested 44 group for violating migration rule Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security later said caller ICE operations successful Los Angeles resulted successful nan apprehension of 118 immigrants, including 5 group linked to criminal organizations and group pinch anterior criminal histories.

David Huerta, location president of nan Service Employees International Union, was besides arrested Friday while protesting. The Justice Department confirmed that he was being held Saturday astatine nan Metropolitan Detention Center successful Los Angeles up of a scheduled Monday tribunal appearance.

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for his contiguous release, informing of a “disturbing shape of arresting and detaining American citizens for exercising their correct to free speech.”

The Trump administration's continued warnings and threats travel arsenic nan Los Angeles Police Department says protests crossed nan metropolis are now proceeding “peacefully.”