Trump Deploys National Guard Troops to Los Angeles

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday as part of the Trump administration’s response to clashes between federal immigration officials and protesters following ICE raids of local businesses. Governor Gavin Newsom opposed the deployment, posting on social media Sunday that “Trump is trying to manufacture a crisis in LA County — deploying troops not for order, but to create chaos.” We’ll check in with local reporters and a legal expert about what’s happening on the ground in LA and how ICE sweeps are affecting immigrant communities in California. Guests: Saul Gonzalez, co-host, The California Report, KQED Ahilan Arulanantham, faculty co-director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law - former Legal Director ACLU of Southern California Gustavo Solis, investigative border reporter, KPBS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.0	Coming up on forum, Los Angeles is calm but tense this morning.
1:14.8	After weekend protests against ice raids saw President Trump take the extraordinary move of calling in the National Guard over a state's wishes.
1:24.0	Governor Newsom called the move illegal and inflammatory and vowed to sue Sunday, saying Trump is trying to manufacture a crisis in L.A. County, deploying troops not for order, but to create chaos.
1:35.6	We talk with a legal expert and check in with local reporters on both the protests and the ice sweeps affecting immigrant communities.
1:43.7	Join us.
1:44.2	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Governor Newsom says California will sue the Trump administration over its deployment of the National Guard in response to weekend clashes between protesters and federal immigration authorities.
2:09.3	Newsom tried to call out protesters destroying property and throwing rocks and explosives in an ennamous NBC interview last night, but put the blame for the escalation squarely on the president.
2:20.1	They're just playing right at a Donald Trump's hand, and they need to be called out. They need to be
2:24.3	arrested. It is wrong to destroy other people's property, and it is wrong to create the conditions
2:29.8	that only exacerbate this, but Donald Trump, at the end of the day, is the sponsor of these conditions.
2:36.9	Joining me first to talk about where those conditions stand is Saul Gonzalez, co-host of the California report,
2:43.3	who's been all over the Los Angeles area covering the protests and the landing of guard troops. Welcome, Saul.
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