Trump Moves to Deploy National Guard to L.A. Over ICE Protests
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Donald Trump will send 2,000 National Guard to quell ICE protests in Los Angeles, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Donald Trump’s “Border Czar” Tom Homan said Saturday the administration is planning to send in the National Guard Saturday evening to quell protests in Los Angeles.

“This is about enforcing the law, and again, we’re not going to apologize for doing it,” Homan said on Fox News. He continued: “We’re already ahead of the game. We were already mobilizing. We’re gonna bring National Guard in tonight. We’re gonna continue doing our job. We’re gonna push back on these people, and we’re gonna [enforce] the law.”

On Saturday night, following Homan’s on-camera remarks, both national Democratic and Republican figures were scrambling to figure out if he was just mouthing off, or if the federal troops were actually on their way, or just … what the hell was going on.

Two Trump administration officials say they learned about the alleged National Guard plans from journalists such as Rolling Stone’s who had reached out to them on Saturday evening, asking for clarification.

Homan did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

“The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) wrote on Bluesky Saturday evening. “That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.”

He added, “LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice. We are in close coordination with the city and county, and there is currently no unmet need. The Guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery. This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.”

The president can request, but not order, a governor to deploy their state’s National Guard. The governor can refuse the request, and Trump would not be allowed under the Constitution to send National Guard troops to California from other states. However, the Trump administration has previously mulled invoking the Insurrection Act, which could allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically, federalize the National Guard, and send in troops to quell uprisings or civil disorder.

Editorializing beyond here:

The Insurrectionist invokes the Insurrection Act

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    Anyone able to confirm this? Tom Homan isn’t allowed to mobilize CA National Guard so… what’s going on over there?

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Note to any more recent readers of this thread:

      The .world mods deleted my original comment because I accurately and correctly described that the US is an authoritarian fascist state, where the Federal government is free to break or make any law as they see fit, the law is whatever they say it is… and for also stating that, as verified by the history of fascism, the only way to effectively and directly resist such fascist’s use of capricious and arbitrary violence… is with violence.

      They have decided to interpret this as an advocation of or for such violence, and removed the comment, despite me not using any phrasing that actually suggested one should engage in such violence. IE, the common definition of the word ‘advocate’.

      This is because .world mods and admins are spineless hypocritical liberals, who are ok with allowing discussion of and descriptions of violence perpetrated by any official state backed entities, but cannot allow discussion or description of any other kind of violence which may threaten the apparatus of the state, regardless of how dubious in justification or extreme in nature such state-backed violence is.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      24 days ago

      Turn on any political live streamer or probably any national news, or check twitter or bluesky.

      This is happening right now, within the last 30 to 45 minutes, and is blowing up in real time, just like the Elon/Trump feud was the last 48 hours.

      To your actual question:

      Trump signed an executive memorandum, ie, he ordered this.

      To expand on that a bit more:

      Hahahah! Tom isn’t allowed to? Trump’s not allowed to tell him to do that?

      Brother/Sister, what rock have you been living under the last 6 months?

      We live in an authoritarian fascist regime.

      The law is whatever the fuck they say it is, untill somebody shoots all these fascists in the face.