Welp, right here we go!
President Donald Trump responded to anti-ICE protests by deploying a whole lot of Marines and hundreds of Nationwide Guard troops to Los Angeles towards the needs of L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, California Governor Gavin Newsom and the Los Angeles Police Division to ship the message that violent protests (or, if we’re being trustworthy about it, anti-Trump protests in whether or not they’re violent of not) won’t be tolerated.
Nicely, the folks have apparently acquired that message, and, because of this, extra anti-ICE and anti-Trump protests are spreading throughout the nation.
Los Angeles remains to be the epicenter of rising protests towards U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Gestapo-like ways, which embrace raiding colleges, workplaces and immigration courts to arrest allegedly undocumented migrants and set them up for deportation with out due course of (after mendacity about all of them being criminals when almost half of ICE detainees both don’t have any prison file in any respect or have solely been convicted of minor offenses, together with site visitors violations). Nevertheless, protesters have additionally gathered in New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Atlanta, and different main cities, in line with NBC Information, which “counted not less than 25 rallies and demonstrations coast to coast since Monday” and famous that “some concerned just a few dozen folks, whereas others attracted hundreds.”
In California alone, cities in addition to L.A. the place protests have both taken place or are deliberate embrace San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Ana and San Jose. Different cities throughout the nation the place protests are deliberate or have taken place embrace Aurora (Colorado), Charlotte (N.C.) Columbus (Ohio), San Antonio, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Memphis, Philadelphia, Portland, and Seattle. In line with ABC Information, Austin, Denver, and Washington, D.C., have seen protests as effectively.
Sadly, not all of these cities have the benefit of state leaders who’re standing towards Trump the way in which Newsom has been. In Texas, unsurprisingly, it’s fairly the other, as Gov. Greg Abbott has jumped straight into Trump’s playbook by deploying troops from the Texas Nationwide Guard.
From ABC Information:
In Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott stated in a put up on X late Tuesday that the “Texas Nationwide Guard can be deployed to areas throughout the state to make sure peace & order.”
“Peaceable protest is authorized. Harming an individual or property is illegitimate & will result in arrest,” Abbott wrote. “@TexasGuard will use each instrument & technique to assist regulation enforcement keep order.”
Guard members had been deployed to San Antonio, in line with assistant police chief Jesse Salame. He stated he didn’t know what number of had been despatched or particulars on the deployment.
And if these bully-foot ways had been really as highly effective as MAGA Republicans suppose they’re, People and migrants could be extra intimidated as an alternative of responding to authorities overreach by growing resistance throughout the nation.
We like to see it!
SEE ALSO:
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