California Officials Blame Trump for Stoking L.A. Unrest
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California is once again on fire, and this time it’s not because of Mother Nature.
Texas leaders are reacting Monday as tensions in Los Angeles increased Sunday following President Donald Trump's deployment of the California National Guard.
The Insurrection Act is a federal law that allows the president to deploy the military and National Guard troops to suppress civil disorder, insurrection or rebellion. It was last used by President George H. W. Bush during the Los Angeles riots after the Rodney King verdict in April 1992.
A group of North Bay immigrants and their supporters began a march this weekend from Vacaville to the California State Capitol to add their voices to a growing wave of defiance toward the Trump administration's deportation arrests.
HOW WE GOT HERE: The protests erupted after Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Friday carried out raids in three locations across L.A., where dozens of people were taken into custody. Newsom called the raids “chaotic federal sweeps” that aimed to fill an “arbitrary arrest quota.”
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California National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday in a show of force following scattered clashes between immigration agents and protesters and amid a widening political divide between California and the Trump administration.
David Huerta, the president of California's SEIU division, was charged with conspiracy to impede on an officer, which faces a maximum sentence of six years if convicted.