{"id":3824,"date":"2025-06-13T11:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:33:14","slug":"as-legal-fight-over-guard-deployment-plays-out-noem-vows-to-continue-trumps-immigration-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=3824","title":{"rendered":"As legal fight over Guard deployment plays out, Noem vows to continue Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pledged to carry on with the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown<\/a> despite waves of unrest across the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours after her comment Thursday, a judge directed the president to return control to California over National Guard troops he deployed after protests erupted over the immigration crackdown, but an appeals court quickly put the brakes on that and temporarily blocked the order that was to go into effect on Friday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled a hearing on the matter for Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The federal judge\u2019s temporary restraining order<\/a> said the Guard deployment was illegal and both violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded President Donald Trump\u2019s statutory authority. The order applied only to the National Guard troops and not Marines who were also deployed to the LA protests. The judge said he would not rule on the Marines because they were not out on the streets yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gov. Gavin Newsom who had asked the judge for an emergency stop to troops helping carry out immigration raids, had praised the order before it was blocked saying \u201ctoday was really about a test of democracy, and today we passed the test\u201d and had said he would be redeploying Guard soldiers to \u201cwhat they were doing before Donald Trump commandeered them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump thanked the appeals court Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I didn\u2019t send the Military into Los Angeles, that city would be burning to the ground right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said the president acted within his powers and that the federal judge\u2019s order \u201cputs our brave federal officials in danger. The district court has no authority to usurp the President\u2019s authority as Commander in Chief.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The developments unfolded as protests continued in cities nationwide and the country braced for major demonstrations<\/a> against Trump over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018This is only going to continue,\u2019 DHS chief says of raids<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Noem said the immigration raids that fueled the protests would move forward and agents have thousands of targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is only going to continue until we have peace on the streets of Los Angeles,\u201d she said during a news conference that was interrupted by shouting from U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat who was forcibly removed from the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsom has warned that the military intervention is part of a broader effort by Trump<\/a> to overturn norms at the heart of the nation\u2019s democracy. He also said sending Guard troops on the raids has further inflamed tensions<\/a> in LA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far the protests have been centered mostly in downtown near City Hall and a federal detention center where some immigrants are being held. Much of the sprawling city has been spared from the protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the third night of an 8 p.m. curfew, Los Angeles police arrested several demonstrators who refused orders to leave a street downtown. Earlier in the night, officers with the Department of Homeland Security deployed flash bangs to disperse a crowd that had gathered near the jail, sending protesters sprinting away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those incidents were outliers. As with the past two nights, the hourslong demonstrations remained peaceful and upbeat, drawing a few hundred attendees who marched through downtown chanting, dancing and poking fun at the Trump administration\u2019s characterization of the city as a \u201cwar zone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere, demonstrations have picked up across the U.S., emerging in more<\/a> than a dozen major cities. Some have led to clashes with police and hundreds have been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noem calls action in LA a blueprint<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The immigration agents conducting the raids in LA are \u201cputting together a model and a blueprint\u201d for other communities, Noem said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She pledged that federal authorities \u201care not going away\u201d even though, she said, officers have been hit with rocks and bricks and assaulted. She said people with criminal records who are in the country illegally and violent protesters will \u201cface consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust because you think you\u2019re here as a citizen, or because you\u2019re a member of a certain group or you\u2019re not a citizen, it doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019re going to be protected and not face consequences from the laws that this country stands for,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noem criticized the Padilla\u2019s interruption, calling it \u201cinappropriate.\u201d A statement from her agency said the two met after the news conference for about 15 minutes, but it also chided him for \u201cdisrespectful political theater.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Padilla said later that he was demanding answers about the \u201cincreasingly extreme immigration enforcement actions\u201d and only wanted to ask Noem a question. He said he was handcuffed but not arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, I can only imagine what they are doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers throughout the Los Angeles community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Military involvement escalates in LA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The administration has said it is willing to send troops to other cities to assist with immigration enforcement and controlling disturbances \u2014 in line with what Trump promised during last year\u2019s campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 2,000 Guard soldiers were in the nation\u2019s second-largest city and were soon to be joined by 2,000 more, along with about 700 Marines, said Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, who is in charge of the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 500 of the Guard troops deployed to the Los Angeles protests have been trained to accompany agents on immigration operations<\/a>, Sherman said Wednesday. The Guard has the authority to temporarily detain people who attack officers, but any arrests must be made by law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

States face questions on deploying troops<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With more demonstrations expected over the weekend<\/a>, and the possibility that Trump could send troops to other states for immigration enforcement, governors are weighing what to do<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, has put 5,000 National Guard members<\/a> on standby in cities where demonstrations are planned. In other Republican-controlled states, governors have not said when or how they may deploy troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A group of Democratic governors earlier signed a statement this week calling Trump\u2019s deployments \u201can alarming abuse of power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds arrested in LA protests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There have been about 470 arrests since Saturday, the vast majority of which were for failing to leave the area at the request of law enforcement, according to the police department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There have been a handful of more serious charges, including for assault against officers and for possession of a Molotov cocktail and a gun. Nine officers have been hurt, mostly with minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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