President of the United States (US), Donald Trump, has deployed an additional 2,000 National Guard Troops and 700 Marine to the city of Los Angeles as riots in the commercial center heightens.
The Pentagon confirmed the 47th President of the US is deploying another 2,000 National Guard troops and it is putting into action 700 Marines in the Los Angeles area to help the federal response to protests against immigration raids.
Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has said, he will take legal action against the administration over the deployment of the troops and marines.
Demonstrations started outside in downtown LA on Friday after it emerged Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were conducting series of raids across the city.
It is hugely uncommon for US military troops to be involved in law enforcement domestic.
Late on Monday, President Donald Trump ordered active-duty US Marines and 2,000 more National Guard troops into the City of Los Angeles, promising those protesting immigration arrests would be “hit harder” than ever.
The US President’s astounding mobilisation of 700 full-time professional military personnel – and thousands of National Guard troops – came on the fourth day of street protests ignited by dozens of immigration arrests in a city with huge foreign-born and Latino populations.
The situation in LA is coming following protests in Los Angeles against ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who have been conducting immigration raids to deport non-legal residents.
Rubber bullets, stun grenades, as wells, other non-lethal weapons have been used against the protesters with the aim to disperse them.
Vehicles operated by Google-owned robotaxi firm Waymo were torched during the unrest. The company is of the belief it was intentionally targeted.
Currently, Waymo is still offering services in the city – however, it removed its cars from the downtown area yesterday and is still not working there.
Waymo, meanwhile, is still working in the city of San Francisco but is understood to not be providing services in areas where demonstrators may be converging.
Demonstrations against immigration raids and mass deportations have ignited in cities across the United States (US) after the National Guard was deployed to Los Angeles.
