Los Angeles woke up Monday in Donald Trump’s administration until another day of high tensions, the fourth time since federal immigration authorities’ attempts to arrest illegal immigrants in the city and the president’s orders on the day after the National Guard orders.
Planned to target new rally against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced an incident that “demands immigrant justice and ends ICE’s ongoing human rights violations.”
“We won't be intimidated,” the civil rights group said in a statement on its website.
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The rally will demand the immediate release of union leader David Huerta, who said “unfairly arrested, still in the government’s custody, and all those who were detained were detained.”
But political rhetoric about the protests was not calm. Trump's “Border Tsar” Tom Homan told Fox News earlier Monday that the ice “takes a lot of bad guys out of the streets.”
“We arrested the sexual predators, arrested the gang members, and we arrested a person convicted of armed robbery,” Homan said. “We made La safer…but you didn't hear anything. [Gavin] Newsom proposed, like [Democratic US House minority leader] Hakeem Jeffries said he will reveal the Icefield Agents.
“We won’t stop.”
Homan also told NBC News that more raids are coming. “What I tell you – we will continue to enforce the law every day in Los Angeles,” he said. “Every day in Los Angeles, we enforce immigration laws. I don't care if they like it.”
Tensions between elected state and local officials and the federal government showed signs of further escalation after Newsom said he planned to sue the federal government and dared to arrest him.
Newsom said in an interview with MSNBC that the lawsuit will challenge Trump's federalization of the California National Guard without the state's consent.
“Donald Trump created the conditions you see on TV tonight,” Newsom told The Outlet. “He intensified the conditions. You know, he is lighting the well-known game. He is fueling this fire since he announced that he took over the National Guard – illegal acts, unethical acts, unconstitutional acts.”
He said: “In particular, they must coordinate with the country’s governor.
“They never coordinate with the state governor.”
On Fox News, News No said Trump was “reckless and not so immoral, and he took illegal and unconstitutional actions that had taken the federal National Guard and put his life at risk.”
Newsom added that he is confident that California's legal challenges will succeed.
