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Mayor Karen Bass continues to call for an end to National Guard troops' deployment in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is again calling for an end to the "unnecessary deployment" of National Guard troops in the city after the federal government had them sent to the region in response to immigration enforcement protests.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seven hundred Marines sent to Los Angeles will leave the city, the Pentagon said Monday. The Marines were sent to the city in June alongside 4,000 National Guard soldiers in response to protests over the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration raids around the city.
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Immigration expert sounds alarm on how Biden's border crisis paved way for Los Angeles riots
Heather Mac Donald links border policies to civil unrest in California, suggesting immigration caps could improve assimilation as protests continue under the Trump administration.
Friday's immigration operations which took place across Los Angeles, primarily in the Westlake District, downtown, and South L.A., led to protests over the weekend, resulting in 42 arrests. Those arrested are facing charges ranging from assault on an officer,
Benito Flores, 70, was found dead Friday in the backyard of his state-owned home. Supporters say he fell from a tree house he was using to protest his eviction.
Police in Cincinnati arrested at least 13 people, including two journalists, after demonstrators protesting the immigration detention of a former hospital chaplain blocked a two-lane bridge carrying traffic over the Ohio River.
Civil rights activist and Georgia Congressman John Lewis was known for saying he got into "good trouble" by using peaceful, non-violent action to challenge injustice. Now, in 1,600 cities and towns across the country, protesters are planning to make similar "good trouble" on July 17, the fifth anniversary of Lewis' death.
In a demand letter sent to Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell, Jonathan Markovitz, a staff attorney for the ACLU SoCal, said that the reasoning given for denying Refuse Facism’s permit “appears to be unconstitutional.