Tensions escalate as city’s residents protest immigration crackdown and Trump threatens to arrest Gavin Newsom
US officials were deploying roughly 2,000 national guard members in Los Angeles on Monday in response to large protests over immigration raids, while Donald Trump has taken the extraordinary step of threatening to arrest the Democratic governor of California.
Tensions between the federal government and the nation’s second-largest city dramatically escalated over the weekend as residents took to the streets to demonstrate against a series of brutal crackdowns on immigrant communities. Raids in the region have affected garment district workers, day laborers and restaurants, and the president of a major California union was arrested by federal agents while serving as a community observer during US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) arrests.
