US National Guard arrive in LA
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
National Guard units who earlier arrived in Los Angeles have engaged with protestors opposed to Donald Trump's immigration policies. They fired tear gas to try to force back the demonstrators. President Trump ordered their deployment after two days of confrontations between residents of a predominantly Hispanic area and local police.
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(Photo: National Guard deployed by President Trump as anti-ICE protests continue in Los Angeles, USA - 08 Jun 2025. Credit:Caroline Brehman/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from London with me, John Donison. |
| 0:09.2 | And we're going to start the programme in the United States. |
| 0:11.9 | President Trump has announced he's deploying troops, not overseas, but to Los Angeles. |
| 0:18.0 | 2,000 National Guard soldiers have begun arriving in L.A. to help tackle protests |
| 0:23.3 | against immigration control. Well, Donald Trump's border saw, Tom Homan, has been speaking to |
| 0:29.1 | Fox News. This is about enforcing the law, and again, we're not going to apologize for doing it. |
| 0:33.8 | We're stepping up. Guess what? We're already ahead of the game. We're already mobilizing. |
| 0:37.6 | We're going to bring National Guard in tonight. We're going to continue doing our job. We're stepping up. Guess what? We're already head of the game. We're already mobilizing. We're going to bring National Guard in tonight. We're going to continue doing our job. |
| 0:41.1 | We're going to push back on these people and we're going to force a law. |
| 0:44.6 | But California's governor, the Democrat, Gavin Newsom, has called the move inflammatory |
| 0:48.5 | and an attempt to create a spectacle. The protests largely from members of the |
| 0:54.1 | city's Hispanic community |
| 0:55.6 | have been relatively minor involving just a few hundred people up to now |
| 1:00.0 | but have involved some violence towards local police. |
| 1:04.3 | We're just here living, working. |
| 1:06.9 | They stopped at Home Depot where they know that people are undocumented. |
| 1:11.6 | So us as a community have came here to try to make peace so that they don't make families separate one another. |
| 1:23.6 | This is what they wanted. They wanted people to riot. They wanted the people to start fire where they wanted. |
| 1:28.0 | They wanted people to riot. |
| 1:29.3 | They wanted the people to start fire. |
| 1:30.7 | You wanted the people to start burning out. |
| 1:33.0 | Why? |
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