Updates from L.A. as Riots Escalate; Big Changes at US-Mexico Border
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
“Crossroads” host Joshua Philipp gives updates from overnight reporting in Los Angeles, where riots continued. Protesters and agitators set fire to vehicles and looted businesses, while political battles continued over President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard.
Also in this episode, we travel to the U.S.–Mexico border for updates on the border wall, military operations, and the status of the immigrant processing facilities.
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| 0:00.0 | The riots in Los Angeles have escalated. Since late last week, riots broke out in Los Angeles |
| 0:05.4 | to protest against immigration custom enforcement operations where they're arresting and |
| 0:10.1 | deporting illegal immigrants. The situation there has since gotten worse. President Trump |
| 0:14.7 | activated the National Guard, deployed them to L.A., at least 300 troops deployed to the city |
| 0:19.8 | so far, although not at the request of California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is now moving to actually sue the Trump administration over this. |
| 0:28.4 | I went to check out personally what happened with the riots last night. I'll be going over some of what I saw on the ground. |
| 0:35.3 | Also, big change is happening at the border. We heard about the huge drop in |
| 0:39.7 | encounters and as somebody who's been covering the border issue for a while now, I wanted to see |
| 0:44.4 | what the situation on the ground was. I met up with Manny Byron, a National Border Patrol |
| 0:49.4 | Council Union President in San Diego who gave us some updates on the changes at the U.S.-Mexico |
| 0:55.5 | border. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm the Epic Times Senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 1:07.3 | The riots in Los Angeles have been escalating. |
| 1:10.2 | Now, since late last week, riots broke out in Los Angeles in protests against ICE, immigration, customs enforcement, as they try to arrest and deport illegal immigrants. Now, the situation there has gotten worse since. President Trump activated the National Guard, deployed 300 troops to LA, at least that so far, |
| 1:30.3 | although not at the request of Governor Gavin Newsom. Now, I personally went to check out the riots last night. |
| 1:37.3 | I'll be going into some of what I personally saw there. We'll also go over some of the latest updates on where things are at right now. |
| 1:43.3 | First up, here's an overview of what's happening. |
| 1:46.6 | Epic Times says the National Guard has been deployed in Los Angeles, specifically to protect |
| 1:51.6 | federal buildings, including the downtown detention center where protesters concentrated. |
| 1:56.9 | It said earlier, U.S. Northern Command said about 500 Marines were on standby to deploy to |
| 2:03.2 | Los Angeles. In addition to approximately 300 National Guardsmen, and it says Northcom said in a |
| 2:09.5 | release, approximately 500 Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines at 29 Palms, California, |
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