New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/immigration-raids-migrant-safety-apps/
The Trump administration said it would send 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles after a second day in which protesters confronted immigration agents during raids of local businesses
Governor Newsom calls Pete Hegseth’s threat of calling up the Marines ⭐️ ‘deranged’
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Threatens Mobilization of Active-Duty Marines Against Protesters in Los Angeles
Such language is unprecedented in response to immigration protests.
The escalation comes just three days after the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre,
when Chinese troops crushed a pro-democracy movement with tanks and live ammunition
—a grim reminder of what can happen when a government turns its military on its own people.
Immigrant razzia's in Los Angeles: "Caravans of unmarked military-style vehicles and vans loaded with uniformed federal agents streaming through the streets." Dozens arrested in stores. Trade union president arrested while observing. https://www.
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Bernie Sanders warned of the US’s slide into authoritarianism
following Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city’s protests against federal immigration raids.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
On Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…
As many as 44 people were detained on Friday throughout Los Angeles during chaotic, protest-inducing raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials,
and a local congressman claims raids by federal officials are being conducted “outside the bounds of the law.”
U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) said that he and his federal counterparts are being barred from entering the downtown Los Angeles facility in which people who were detained are believed to be held.
Rep. Gom…
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard is
“completely unnecessary,”
after Trump said late Saturday that 2,000 members of the guard would be deployed.
“Our city has experienced massive civil unrest before,”
she said in an interview with a Fox local affiliate,
referring to riots that took place in L.A. in 1992, when more than 50 people were killed and thousands arrested.
“If you want to see it happen again, then you h…