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Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass reacts to federalized National Guard troops in her city

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Citing a rarely used law, President Trump bypassed California's governor Gavin Newsom, and ordered two thousand national guard troops to Los Angeles for sixty days.

It's the first time in 60 years a president has used federal power to deploy national guard troops without the agreement of the state's governor.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass and hears how people in the city are reacting.

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0:00.0

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised over and over that his administration would

0:04.8

undertake a massive deportation of migrants without legal status. On day one, I will launch the largest

0:10.6

deportation program in American history to get the criminals out. And once in office, President

0:16.8

Trump began to carry out his agenda. Immigration authorities ramped up raids across the country and made thousands of arrests.

0:24.0

But as Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, ramped things up, people began to protest.

0:29.4

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for our sins, now and up the hour of our death.

0:34.7

In Worcester, Massachusetts, a crowd formed to pray and chant as ICE detained a mother and her daughter.

0:41.2

In Chicago, protesters sat in front of an ice van and chanted in Spanish, the people united will never be defeated.

0:51.6

The confrontations reached a boiling point this weekend in California,

0:55.5

where protesters and immigration officials clashed across Los Angeles.

1:00.7

In the city of Paramount, south of L.A., officials deployed flashbangs, pepper spray, and tear gas

1:06.2

on a crowd protesting near a Home Depot.

1:09.2

After two days of confrontations that turned violent at times,

1:12.8

President Trump's Vordersar, Tom Holman, said the administration was mobilizing the National Guard.

1:18.2

We're already headed the game. We were already mobilizing.

1:20.8

We're going to bring National Guard in tonight.

1:22.5

Citing a rarely used law, President Trump bypassed California's governor, Gavin Newsom,

1:27.4

and ordered 2,000 National Guard

1:29.1

troops to L.A. for 60 days, maybe more. Newsom criticized the move, calling it inflammatory,

1:35.2

and saying there was no need for additional law enforcement in the city. Consider this. It's the first

1:41.0

time in 60 years. A president has used federal power to deploy

1:45.0

National Guard troops without the agreement of the state's governor. How are California

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