L.A. Under Siege: Trump Sends in National Guard as Protests Continue over Militarized ICE Raids
Democracy Now!
June 9, 2025
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In Los Angeles, mass street protests have broken out in response to immigration raids. Local police and Border Patrol are cracking down on protesters, while the Trump administration has called in the California National Guard. "They shot thousands of rounds of tear gas, of flashbang grenades, of all kinds of repressive instruments," says Ron Gochez, community organizer with Union del Barrio who helped organize some of the protests. He notes many of the protests have also been successful at turning back immigration agents, preventing ICE arrests and detention. "If we organize ourselves, if we resist, we can defend our communities from ICE terror, from the Border Patrol or from any federal agency that wishes to separate our families."
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LA Protests TOWN HALL: Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Answers Your Questions
Join Mehdi and Viet – an LA resident – for a Q&A on Trump’s deployment of the National Guard against LA protesters.
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June 10, 2025
ICE officers and national guards confront with protesters in Los Angeles, California on June 8, 2025 amid protests over immigration raids. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images.
On Sunday, President Donald Trump brazenly defied the Governor of California Gavin Newsom by deploying the National Guard against demonstrators in Los Angeles, as they protested against the administration’s immigration raids. Newsom has already called the deployment unlawful and a “serious breach of state sovereignty”, and has now filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
Viet’s novel, The Sympathizer, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and he is also the author of the acclaimed To Save and to Destroy. He is also a professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.
Viet himself is a refugee and has spoken out against the crackdown on student protesters, the US support for Israel’s war on Gaza, and Trump’s deportation campaign.
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In order to help viewers break down the recent immigration raids, Trump’s drastic move against protesters (which many predicted), and the California governor’s response, Zeteo will be hosting a live Town Hall Q&A, exclusively for paid subscribers on Tuesday, June 10 at 7pm BST / 2pm ET / 11am PT with Zeteo contributor, Pulitzer Prize winner, and LA resident Viet Thanh Nguyen.
