By John Wojcik, Cameron Harrison, and Mark Gruenberg
Photos: YouTube Screenshots
LOS ANGELES—Over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, President Trump intensified his terrorizing of immigrants and anyone who supports them by federalizing the National Guard and sending them into this city yesterday.
Newsom said the move, following two days of anti-ICE protests in the city, was not just unnecessary but designed to inflame the situation by “creating a spectacle of force.” Mayor Bass also condemned the move, describing it as an “escalatory measure necessitated by an administration trying to provoke situations to demonstrate its alleged strength.”
Tom Homan, Trump’s so-called border czar, said Newsom and Bass “will be arrested if they get in the way of our operations.”
The National Guard troops that arrived Sunday were stationed outside a federal complex to which the masked secret police have been taking people they illegally and unconstitutionally snatch from their workplaces, homes, and off the streets.
MSNBC reporters, who were covering the developments, said Sunday that they have seen a lot of scared and some angry demonstrators here, but nothing that can be described as “rioting.”
Gov. Newsom urged demonstrators to remain calm. “Don’t give Trump what he wants,” the governor said.
The people grabbing the immigrants have no uniforms, are heavily masked, and wear no identification or badges. When questioned about who they are by the people they grab or the protesters who witness the kidnapping, they refuse to answer any questions….
