Vice President JD Vance Friday headed to Los Angeles to fulfill with Nationwide Guard troops and Marines amid tensions over President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Vance, a Marine veteran, deliberate to tour a Federal Joint Operations Heart in addition to a command middle, the place he’ll meet with commanders and rank-and-file troops and ship a speech.
Protests erupted within the Los Angeles space earlier this month after authorities mounted immigration enforcement raids at work websites and at spots the place undocumented immigrants collect, like parking plenty of house enchancment shops.
Trump claimed the protests amounted to an rebellion, giving him the authority to name out the Nationwide Guard and Marines.
The demonstrations appear to be winding down for now, though dozens of protesters confirmed up Thursday at Dodger Stadium, the place a gaggle of federal brokers with lined confronted had gathered in a car parking zone.
The Los Angeles Dodgers group requested them to depart, and so they did.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Tuesday lifted a curfew in downtown Los Angeles that was first imposed in response to vandalism and clashes with police after crowds gathered in opposition to brokers taking migrants into detention.
The Trump administration gained a key court docket battle over the navy deployment late Thursday when a panel of ninth Circuit Court docket of Appeals judges allowed the president to maintain management of Nationwide Guard troops he deployed in response to protests over immigration raids.
Breyer discovered that Trump had overstepped his authorized authority, which he stated permits presidents to manage state Nationwide Guard troops solely throughout occasions of “rebellion or danger of a rebellion.”
However the appeals court docket dominated it needed to give main deference to Trump’s authority as president and commander in chief.
