Of Athena Papakosta

The tension between the Federal Government of the United States and the second most populous city in the country, Los Angeles, escalated during the weekend with residents taking to the streets protesting for violent repression in immigrant communities.

The demonstrations continued and yesterdayMonday, while families of immigrants who remain in custody have appealed to the US federal authorities for the liberation of their loved ones.

The UN has even been placed on the issue, calling for “declining” and even warning of the risk of “militarization” of the situation.

About 1,000 members of the National Guard have already been mobilized on the streets of Los Angeles, while the Pentagon has confirmed that Donald Trump It develops another 2,000 troops of the National Guard and activates 700 Marines in the Los Angeles areain an unprecedented movement of use of military forces to suppress internal riots.

For its part, police have already used chemicals and flash clicks, while members shoot with plastic bullets to dissolve the concentrated crowd of protesters.

United States President Donald Trump threatens to capture the Governor of California and a member of the Democratic Party, Gavin Newsomwho filed a lawsuit against the government by saying that the development of the National Guard is illegal and violates the sovereignty of the state and federal legislation.

Newsom described Trump as a “dictator”.

He also threatened the California commander and the mayor of Los Angeles, Caren Bass and the “border tsar”, Tom Human With Newsmith responding with irony saying “he knows where to find me” while earlier he spoke of a “step towards authoritarianism” accusing the American president of chaos.

It is the first time since 1992 and the riots in Los Angeles, the US president ordered the National Guard to suppress demonstrations and the first time since 1965 that this has happened without having first received a request from the authorities at the state level.

The situation is incomprehensible with the US president himself remaining unmoved in his position and characterizes the decision to develop National Guard members as “excellent”, stressing that otherwise Los Angeles would have “disappeared”.

The US government has intensified its anti -immigration policy with the second Trump term in the White House having begun early with a barrage of arrests of irregular migrants in homes, workplaces, schools or even churches.

According to the US Association of Civil Freedom (ACLU), Los Angeles arrests were made after raids on different locations without warrants and at the moment more than 200 people remain in custody.

The Los Angeles county is inhabited by 3.5 million immigrants, who are one -third of the total population with the city itself boasting that it is a refuge for political rights that are traditionally defended.

“I saw how they passed my father handcuffed him by the waist and his ankles,” a woman who witnessed one of the raids of the United States of immigration and customs service (Ice), said, while another emphasized that they saw their own pains and their own. to help them.

The mayor of Los Angeles calls on protesters not to fall into the Trump trap and continue to protest peacefully while 700 Marines are preparing to grow on the streets of the second largest city population in the United States.