*Residents of Los Angeles, in California, as well as rights and interest groups, in the United States respond with roaring backlash to President Donald Trump鈥檚 dramatic escalation in the deployment of soldiers to crush protesting unarmed civilian migrants across the state for least 30 days of ramped-up immigration enforcement

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Scores of residents of communities in Los Angeles (LA), in California, as well as several other rights and interest groups, across the United States (US), have responded with roaring backlash to President Donald Trump鈥檚 dramatic escalation in the deployment of soldiers to crush unarmed protesting civilian migrants across the state.

绿帽献妻 gathered some residents of LA have vowed to not back down on opposing the Trump administration’s illegal move to invade their city and state under the cover of dousing migrants’ protesters in anti-Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) demonstrations in the country.

Others have also questioned the legality of President Trump administration’s order to deploy soldiers to crush, and arrest protesting but unarmed migrants without warrants in Los Angeles.

US President Donald Trump

He recently threatened to crush opposition to his immigration raids 鈥� but his attempted show of force may have awoken something else, agency reports said.

It was also learnt that Trump鈥檚 administration specifically, had promised to crush opposition in Los Angeles.

Subsequently, late night Saturday, June 7, 2025, the President made good his promise and deployed National Guard soldiers in LA, following protests against immigration raids in the city.

The presidential action was considered a stunning escalation in the administration鈥檚 promise of 鈥渕ass deportations鈥� of undocumented immigrants from the American country.

Trump’s administration has promised to quell protests, and warned local leaders in LA to prepare for at least 30 days of ramped-up immigration enforcement through masked ICE agents.

LA responding to clampdown with roaring backlash

Despite Trump administration’s harassment and threats of a sustained clampdown on migrants in the state, the overwhelming show of force may have awoken something else in Los Angeles, according to reports.

The city is fast responding with a roaring backlash.

It is recalled that the moment Trump was sworn in for his second presidential term Monday, January 20 this year, he has continued to unleash a barrage of draconian immigration restrictions, report noted.

ICE agents began ambushing people inside their homes, in schools, churches, eateries, and other public places in the United State.

Regrettably, children also are being detained in what some human rights activists have called 鈥渂aby jails鈥�.

Asylum seekers have equally been exiled to a brutal mega-prison in El Salvador.

There were protests across the US 鈥� but the resistance that marked Trump鈥檚 first term seemed to have flagged. Institutions had begun folding to the President鈥檚 threats.

As the administration escalated immigration raids and stripped away immigrants鈥� rights, politicians have mounted muffled objections.

Trump’s alleged brutality against protesting migrants, communities in Los Angeles

Reports indicated that the brutality with which Federal ICE agents have approached their targets across the US, including a clothing manufacturer in Los Angeles鈥檚 garment district, and Home Depot in the Westlake district and a warehouse in South Los Angeles, has fuelled the fury among the residents.

It was gathered the ICE agents had carried out raids and arrests without judicial warrants, seizing over 200 people, according to advocates at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Similarly, lawyers reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency have been holding detained families in the basements of Federal immigration facilities, separating children and mothers from their fathers.

Still, ICE agents have refused access to attorneys and family members, according to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), according to report.

As masked immigration officers ripped workers away from their jobs, other agents in riot gear attacked protesters with tear gas and flash bang grenades, escalating a handful of isolated demonstrations into a clash that roiled the city and spurred several hundred to join the protest, report also noted.

Among the protesters arrested was union leader David Huerta, President of SEIU-USWW and SEIU California.

Besides, the images of a middle-aged man in a plaid button-down shirt who was shoved down to the ground have angered millions of union workers across the US, wrote LA Times columnist Anita Chabria.

Chabria stated: 鈥淭he battleground has been redrawn in ways we don鈥檛 fully yet appreciate.”

Worse still, President Trump has responded to the protests in Los Angeles with escalating force, bypassing the Governor to activate the state鈥檚 National Guard for the first time since the 1992 LA riots, when Police officers were acquitted over the beating of Rodney King.

Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth, US Defense Secretary, has suggested that aside from to the 2,000 guardsmen promised, the Federal Government would consider sending in the marines to crush protesting migrants in LA.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, however, has described Hegseth’s suggestion as that from a 鈥渄eranged鈥� mind, report said.

Reacting to Trump administration’s latest “deranged” action against unarmed migrant protesters in Los Angeles, Democrats have condemned the US President, calling his National Guard deployment to LA “crazy, unreliable leadership”.

JD Vance suggested that the administration was targeting this Democratic city in a Democratic state as part of a political lesson, referring to protestors as 鈥渋nsurrectionists鈥�.

It’s Trump’s strategy to ‘flood the zone’, says Border Czar

White House border czar Tom Homan, in a recent chat on Fox News, disclosed the show of might in LA is all part of a deliberate strategy to 鈥渇lood the zone鈥�.

Homan reportedly said the administration would be zeroing in on 鈥渟anctuary cities鈥� that refuse to cooperate with Immigration enforcers.

Angelica Salas, Executive Director for the advocacy group Chirla, said at a news conference Friday, June 6, however averred that communities don鈥檛 like to see their friends and neighbors cuffed by the ICE agents.

Salas said: 鈥淭hese are workers, these are fathers, these are mothers.

鈥淥ur community is under attack and is being terrorised.鈥�

US representative Maxine Waters, who also was denied entry to the Federal Immigration office in downtown LA, said the crowds should 鈥済row and grow and grow鈥� until President Trump reversed course on his deploying of soldiers to crush unarmed protesting migrants across LA, others across the United States.

These, reports stated, include raids that took place in Newark, Chicago, Nashville and other cities across the country

In San Diego recently, a neighbourhood mobilised as Federal agents raided restaurants, yelling 鈥淪hame! Shame!鈥� at officers in military gear.

Lindsay Toczylowski, President of ImmDef, said: 鈥淭he administration is testing Los Angeles to see if we break under pressure.

鈥淏ut we won鈥檛 back down.鈥�

US National Guard troops are deployed around downtown Los Angeles, California Sunday, June 8, 2025, following an immigration raid protest the night before

Police have fired tear gas at demonstrators and arrests have been made in Los Angeles Sunday, after tensions escalated near the Metropolitan Detention Center, hours after US President Donald Trump deployed 2,000 United States National Guard soldiers there.

The troops, early Sunday on Los Angeles streets as part of the Trump administration鈥檚 order, pushed to suppress protests against a wave of Federal immigration raids in the region.

The action has since sparked a sharp rebuke from California鈥檚 Democratic leadership, report noted.

Footage showed uniformed officers firing tear gas canisters as they moved into the street, scattering protesters. Pushing and shoving erupted when demonstrators approached a line of National Guard troops and began shouting at them.

Dozens of National Guard members, dressed in riot gear and positioned behind plastic shields, were stationed outside the Federal facility.

Reporting from the midst of the chaos, Rob Reynolds, Al Jazeera鈥檚 Senior Correspondent, also reported: 鈥淧olice arrested a lot of people very publicly.

“There was tear gas deployed, percussion, grenades, non-lethal baton rounds, and so forth.

鈥淲hat makes this situation so tense, and has resulted in so much confrontation and physicality is the presence of the National Guard.”

Reynolds said even though they鈥檙e not out here fighting people pushing them around, their presence there had enraged a certain number of Angelinos.

“They are determined to make their feelings about the National Guard and President Trump鈥檚 actions known as dramatically as they can.”

A third day of clashes follows intense confrontations between demonstrators and federal agents near a Department of Homeland Security facility in Paramount, a city south of Los Angeles with a large Latino population, report stated.

The protests erupted after federal authorities carried out mass arrests in several locations, including the city鈥檚 fashion district and a Home Depot store.

Over 100 people have been detained over the past week, according to immigration officials.

Trump accused of inflaming tensions, describing situation as ‘migrant riots’

Trump spoke briefly on the tarmac before departing to Camp David Sunday, June 8, and said: 鈥淚 don鈥檛 believe there鈥檚 an insurrection, but we will have troops everywhere.”

The US President, however, added that more cities across the United States could see deployments, if protests expand.

鈥淲e鈥檙e not going to let this country be torn apart.鈥�

When asked what conditions would lead him to deploy active-duty Marines, Trump reportedly said: 鈥淭he bar is what I think it is. If we see danger to our country and our citizens, we will be very strong in terms of law and order.鈥�

On his Truth Social account, the president accused protesters of 鈥渁ttacking our Federal Agents鈥� and directed his cabinet to take 鈥渁ll necessary action鈥� to stop what he called 鈥淢igrant riots鈥�.

鈥淥rder will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free.”

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