June 10,
2025, 2:48 a.m. ET43 minutes ago
Jesus
Jiménez Orlando
Mayorquín Mimi Dwyer and Francesca Regalado
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/09/us/la-protests-immigration-ice-trump
Here’s
the latest.
A
battalion of 700 U.S. Marines was heading to Los Angeles on Monday night, the
military said, as police officers started to break up downtown protests against
the Trump administration’s immigration raids and its deployment of military
forces in the city.
The
Marines were being sent to protect federal law enforcement officers and
property in greater Los Angeles, according to U.S. Northern Command. Four days
of protests, including a rally on Monday afternoon, have centered around a
group of federal buildings downtown.
The new
deployments to the Los Angeles area included 2,000 more National Guard troops,
double those already assigned to area.
Gov.
Gavin Newsom of California told The New York Times on Monday afternoon that the
troops that had deployed over the weekend had little to do, and that the
president was acting to sow “more fear, more anger, and to further divide.”
Mr.
Newsom later called the deployment of active-duty Marines to L.A. illegal and
said that he would file a lawsuit to prevent them from being sent. The state
has also sued to block the use of National Guard troops.
The Los
Angeles Police Department began making some arrests downtown on Monday,
dispersing protesters who remained in the Little Tokyo neighborhood with tear
gas and flash bangs. But there generally seemed to be fewer clashes in the city
between protesters and police officers than on Sunday, when demonstrators
briefly shut down the 101 freeway. About 150 people have been arrested in Los
Angeles since Friday.
So far,
the National Guard appears to have largely stayed out of confrontations between
protesters and local police across the Los Angeles region. But the deployments
of the National Guard and the Marines are striking because military troops are
meant to be used domestically only in the rarest and most extreme situations.
Here’s
what else to know:
Union
leader: There were demonstrations in several American cities on Monday in
solidarity with a union leader, David Huerta, who was released on Monday on a
$50,000 bond. He was arrested during a protest over an immigration raid last
week.
Trump
rhetoric: By calling the protesters “insurrectionists,” Mr. Trump appeared to
be adopting a rationale that could allow him to invoke the 1807 Insurrection
Act and use active-duty military personnel to deal with violent protests. It
was unclear exactly what grounds the administration had used to send the
Marines. Read more ›
Marching
in solidarity: Some of the people demonstrating in downtown Los Angeles on
Sunday said they were first- or second-generation immigrants showing solidarity
with their neighbors or family members. During a news conference on Monday
morning, several family members of the detained held photos of their loved ones
and said that they had not been able to communicate with them.
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