President Donald Trump says that he is deploying 2,000 National Guard soldiers in California, Los Angeles, to respond to immigration protests, to the objections of California Governor Gavin News.
The White House said in a statement on Saturday that Trump was publishing the guards “addressing the chaos that allowed it to communicate” in California.
California Governor Gavin New Roosom, a democratic, objected to this step and said in a post on X that the transition from the Republican President was “intentional inflammation and will ascend tensions.”
The White House’s move to increased the response significantly at the time when the protests in Los Angeles extended to a second day, when tear gas and smoke filled the air, as the demonstrators faced the border patrol staff in riot equipment. In reference to the aggressive approach to the administration, Defense Minister Beit Higsith threatened to a position on the deployment of the US military.
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Newsom said in his statement on social media that the local authorities “are able to access law enforcement assistance in notifying a moment”, and “there is no need now.”
“This is the wrong task and the audience’s confidence will be eroded.”
The border patrol staff stood in riots and gas masks outside an industrial park in Paramount, and spread tear gas as a passerby gathered on the average and through the street. Some officers slipped while registering events on smartphones.
Publishing the National Guard
This is not the first time that Trump activates the National Guard to suppress the protests. In 2020, he asked several rulers of the states to send forces to Washington, DC to respond to the demonstrations that arose after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minynabolis police officers. Several governors who asked them, and sending forces to the federal boycott. The rulers who refused to do so were allowed to do so, while maintaining their forces on the homeland.
This time, however, Trump behaves in the NEWSOM opposition, who will retain the normal conditions of controlling the National Guard in California and its leadership. While Trump said that the forces’ estimation was necessary to “confront the marshes” in California, the democratic ruler said this step was “intentionally calming and will only rise tensions.”
Here are some things to know about when and how the president can spread forces on the American soil.
Laws are a little mysterious
In general, federal military forces are not allowed to conduct duties to enforce the civil law against American citizens except in times of emergency.
War Law in the eighteenth century is called the rebellion law is the main legal mechanism that the president can use to activate the military or national guards during times of rebellion or unrest. But Trump did not call for the rebellion law on Saturday.
Instead, he relied on a similar federal law that allows the president to establish the National Guard forces under certain circumstances.
The National Guard is a hybrid entity that serves federal and state interests. It often operates under the leadership and control of the state, using state financing. Sometimes, the National Guard forces will be appointed by their mandate to serve federal missions, survival under the leadership of the state, but using federal financing.
The law in which the Trump Declaration cited puts the National Guard forces under the federal leadership. The law says it can be done under three circumstances: when the United States is invaded or at risk of invasion; When there is a rebellion or risk of rebellion against the authority of the US government, or when the president is unable to “execute the laws of the United States”, with regular forces.
But the law also says that the orders of these purposes “are issued through state rulers.” It is not immediately clear whether the president can revitalize the National Guard forces without the ruler of that state.
The role of the National Guard will be limited
It is worth noting that Trump’s declaration says that the National Guard forces will play a supportive role by protecting ice officers while they impose the law, instead of the forces performing law enforcement.
Steve Vladik, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, who specializes in the law of military justice and national security, says that the National Guard forces cannot legally engage in regular law enforcement activities unless Trump first calls for the rebellion law.
Vladic said this step raises the danger that the forces end up using force while filling the role of “protection”. He wrote on his website, this step could also be an introduction to other most aggressive forces on the road.
“There is nothing that will allow these forces to do so, for example, that the ice officers whose protests may not be able to do themselves,” Vladic wrote.
The forces have been mobilized before
The rebellion law and related laws were used during the era of civil rights to protect activists and students who cancel school registration. President Dwight Eisenhower 101 has sent air to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect black high school students after activating the governor of that state, the National Guard to remove students.
George was used by W. Bush to respond to the riots in Los Angeles in 1992 after the white police officers who were beaten on Rodney King Black car driver.
The National Guard forces have been deployed to a variety of emergency situations, including the street epidemic, hurricanes and other natural disasters. But in general, these publishing operations are carried out with the agreements of the rulers of responsive countries.
Trump is ready to use the army on the homeland
In 2020, Trump asked the rulers of several states to deploy the National Guard forces to Washington, DC to suppress the protests that arose after the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. Many governors agreed, and forces were sent to the federal province.
At that time, Trump also threatened to summon the rebellion law for the protests after the death of Floyd in Minneapolis – an intervention rarely seen in modern American history. But then Defense Minister Mark Esber pushed back, saying that the law should be called “only in the most urgent and cheap situations.”
Trump did not call for the rebellion law during his first term.
But during his second term campaign, he suggested that this change. Trump told an audience in Iowa in 2023 that he was prevented from using the army to suppress violence in cities and countries during his first term, and he said if the case appeared again during his next term, “I am not waiting.”
Trump also promised to deploy the National Guard to help implement the migration enforcement targets, and his great advisor, Stephen Miller, explained how this will be implemented: The forces will, under the referendum of the sympathetic Republicans, send forces to the nearby states that raise participation.
After Trump announced that he was studying the National Guard forces on Saturday, Defense Minister Beit Higseth said that other measures could follow it.
HegSeth wrote on the social media platform X that marine infantry in active service in Camp Pendleton was at a state of high alert and “violence continued.”