Protests In L.A. Over Trump's Immigration Policies

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

After a series of immigration raids in and around Los Angeles, protestors demonstrated against the actions & the broader immigration policies of the Trump administration. In response, the president federalized the California National Guard without asking state and local officials. The rare move has drawn strong criticism from California lawmakers.

This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, immigration policy reporter Ximena Bustillo, and Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Rachel, and I'm from San Antonio, Texas.
0:03.7	I've spent my senior year of high school taking AP United States government and politics,
0:08.1	and today I'm taking my final exam.
0:10.7	I know that the things I learned from my government teacher and listening to this show every day will help me nail the test.
0:16.4	This podcast was recorded on 132 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, June 9th, 2025.
0:22.6	Things might have changed by the time you hear this, but I will have taken my government
0:26.4	exam and hopefully killed it. Here's the show.
0:32.3	Congrats on, I guess, completing senior year soon. Yeah. Big moments.
0:37.6	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:39.7	I'm Sarah McCammon.
0:40.6	I cover politics.
0:41.6	I'm Hamanabustia, and I cover immigration policy.
0:43.8	I'm Tom Bowman.
0:44.7	I cover the Pentagon.
0:45.9	And today on the show, we're looking at the major demonstrations in Los Angeles in response to President Trump's immigration policies.
0:52.6	Hemena, you cover immigration.
0:56.9	First, if you could, just walk us through what's happened recently.
0:57.9	How did we get here?
1:04.4	So we have seen immigration and customs enforcement officers conduct, you know, immigration arrests across the country, but that includes California.
1:07.7	And last week, there were several arrests throughout the state, but particularly
1:12.5	on Friday, there were at least three specific immigration enforcement operations, and those
1:18.2	can be arrests raid variations. And then on Saturday, ICE said that it had arrested 118 people
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