94Ha ViewpointOn June 10, local time, US President Trump delivered a speech at Fort Bragg, calling the Los Angeles riots “a full-scale attack on peace, public order and national sovereignty by a group of thugs waving foreign flags” with the goal of continuing the “foreign invasion” of the United States. Trump said that people who burn the American flag should be sentenced to one year in prison.
Trump said that if he had not deployed guards, Los Angeles would have been “burned down”. The guards deployed to Los Angeles were protecting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and were preventing the invasion. Trump said that the governor of California and the mayor of Los Angeles were “incompetent” and the Trump administration would “liberate Los Angeles.”
Federal agencies such as the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency dispatched a large number of law enforcement officers on the 6th and 7th to launch raids on illegal immigrants in many places in Los Angeles County, and had serious conflicts with local community residents for two consecutive days. On the 7th, Trump signed a presidential memorandum, announcing the deployment of 2,000 National Guard personnel to the Los Angeles area without California Governor Newsom requesting support.
Newsom has publicly expressed his opposition to Trump’s decision to send troops since the 7th. On the afternoon of the 8th, Newsom signed a document to the US Department of Defense, requesting Secretary of Defense Hegseth to withdraw the order to deploy the National Guard to the Los Angeles area and return the command of the California National Guard to the state government, “when necessary”.
On the 9th, the California government filed a lawsuit with the court, requesting the court to rule that the presidential memorandum issued by US President Trump on the 7th and the order of the US Department of Defense to dispatch the California National Guard to the Los Angeles area were illegal, and requested the court to revoke the relevant orders.
