Los Angeles: Troops Respond & a US Senator is Handcuffed
Is immigration enforcement "off the rails"?
THE WEEK’S US BORDER NEWS IN BRIEF:
Troops deployed to Los Angeles, as “mass deportations” trigger protests: Pressure to multiply undocumented migrant arrests led to raids that triggered widespread protests in Los Angeles, to which the Trump administration responded by deploying National Guard and Marine personnel to the city, over the objections of local officials. The situation in Los Angeles has sharpened the national debate over the administration’s expanding use of military force against civilians on U.S. soil and consideration of invoking the Insurrection Act. In a June 12 ruling, a federal judge found the National Guard deployment to be unlawful. However, a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a day later kept in place Trump’s directives authorizing the deployment of at least 4,000 California National Guard troops and several hundred Marines pending further litigation.
California’s Senior U.S. Senator’s attendance at a DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Los Angeles news conference did not end well. “I’m Senator Alex Padilla”, he said to Noem, intending to follow up with a question. The federal officers in her security detail rushed him, shoved him out of the room, tackled him to the hallway floor, and then handcuffed him. “If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question … you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers,” Padilla said afterwards.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the United States—but in a Tennessee prison:
The man whom the Trump administration erroneously expelled to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison was abruptly returned to the United States, but he is now jailed in Tennessee, where the Trump administration has indicted him for migrant smuggling. Federal courts continue to seek facilitation of other migrants’ return and to question the administration’s March invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
Travel ban added to list of administration crackdowns, many of which remain in court: The administration’s full or partial ban on entries from citizens of 19 countries went into effect on June 9. As many as 530,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to whom the Biden administration had granted humanitarian parole received notice that their status is revoked and they must leave the country—a move upheld, for now, by the Supreme Court. A new lawsuit in San Diego challenges the Trump administration’s January 20th shutdown of asylum access at the border.
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FINALLY, IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:
(Stories covered by US Border News during the most recent week):
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Defense Secretary reverses "woke crap"
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2,000 National Guard Troops deploy
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Jack Beavers
I do not feel one bit sorry for Alex Padilla, he can move to Cuba n take Newsom with him. The Dems have completely ruined CA, n the Reps. have done zero to stop them.
I did not hear him announce his name til he was being removed. How rude to barge into a press conference uninvited and expect center stage - which he received