🌀NEW: California Governor Makes Formal Request For Trump To Withdraw Troops From Los Angeles

By: Desmond Price

Hundreds of California National Guard soldiers are deployed in downtown Los Angeles in an escalation of the Trump administration’s rolling immigration enforcement action throughout Southern California.

Their deployment comes over the objections of California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who say that local law enforcement agencies are more than capable of keeping the peace in the city. He wrote a letter on Sunday afternoon to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth requesting that the administration withdraw the troops and questioning the legality of their deployment. The National Guard is usually called in at the request of a state’s governor; a president has not deployed troops without a governor’s requests since 1965.

“There is currently no need for the National Guard to be deployed in Los Angeles, and to do so in this unlawful manner and for such a lengthy period is a serious breach of state sovereignty that seems intentionally designed to inflame the situation,” he wrote.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Salinas Democrat, called the raids “an authoritarian assault on our immigrant communities.”

“We will not allow (Los Angeles) to become a staging ground for political terror,” he wrote in a statement.

His counterpart in the state Senate, Healdsburg Democrat Mike McGuire, said the National Guard deployment “reeks of fascism.”

Source - Cal Matters

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The line that stands out to me the most is - “a president has not deployed troops without a governor’s requests since 1965”.

As we spoke about in our previous post, Trump is going to only get more authoritarian as his unpopularity grows

For those who missed it, this is our post from yesterday ⬇️

Trump’s hateful rhetoric about wanting to “liberate” Los Angeles is just the latest in his xenophobic hate speech. The fact of the matter is that 34% of LA County is was born out of the United States. Is he planning on deporting a 1/3 of the population?

While I’m consistently disgusted by the oversteps of the Trump regime, & their attempts to dehumanize anyone in our country that isn’t a straight White male, there are plenty of pockets of hope.

This was taken earlier today ⬇️

For those just reading this on your email, if you click into the image above, you can watch the video that is attached to this note.

There are over 10,000 people peacefully protesting ICE in Downtown Los Angeles today.

They have a first amendment right to peacefully assemble.

Regardless of the fact that our dictator in chief wants to strip those rights away from people.

If you are protesting in California, New York, or anywhere in the U.S. today, please be careful.

Stay in community, share resources, and please share information.

I’m thankful to the independent journalists that have been doing diligent work covering these events on the ground. If you can, please support people who are covering this story.

Until next time,

Desmond