According to Golden Finance, on June 8th local time, US President Trump made a clear statement regarding the current unrest in Los Angeles, California, that the federal government “will send troops anywhere”. This tough statement quickly drew widespread attention and stirred up new waves in an already tense situation.
On the very same day, the US military disclosed that about 500 Marine Corps personnel had entered a standby state. When communicating with media reporters, Trump characterized the ongoing protests in Los Angeles as “riots”, firmly emphasizing in his words that “we will send troops anywhere” and stating that “the perpetrators will not go unpunished”.
In response to the key question of whether the federal government would send troops to Los Angeles, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, said in an interview with ABC: “One of our core principles is to maintain peace with power…” I don’t think this is a tough measure. His remarks, to a certain extent, echoed Trump’s position and revealed the attitude of some top political figures towards the current situation.
The US Northern Command also issued a statement in the evening of the 8th, confirming that 500 Marines stationed south of the Los Angeles area are fully prepared and can be immediately and rapidly deployed to Los Angeles upon the order of the federal government to engage in the situation control operation. According to The Washington Post, a Defense Department official who declined to be named further disclosed that Marines currently stationed in 29 Palm Village, California, are also on standby, ready to respond to mission orders at any time.
Looking back at the development of the incident, on June 7th, Trump, without the support of California Governor Newsom, resolutely dispatched 2,000 California National Guard personnel to the Los Angeles area, attempting to control the chaos caused by the hunt for illegal immigrants in the local area. The US military said on the 8th that another 300 National Guard personnel were stationed in the Los Angeles area on the same day, further strengthening the local security forces. However, this move has not been fully approved by the California side. Newsom clearly stated on the same day that he has asked the federal government to withdraw the order to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles and return the command of the California National Guard to the state government.
The trigger of the recent riots in Los Angeles was a large-scale law enforcement operation targeting illegal immigrants carried out by federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement in multiple locations of Los Angeles County on June 6. During the operation, law enforcement officers and local community residents engaged in multiple street confrontations. The scene was chaotic, conflicts were frequent, and even physical confrontations occurred, which aroused widespread dissatisfaction and protests from the public.
As the incident escalated, the attitudes of all parties gradually diverged. Karen Bass, the Democratic female mayor of Los Angeles, strongly condemned the large-scale hunt for illegal immigrants by federal law enforcement officers in Los Angeles, saying she was “deeply angry” about the law enforcement operation during the day on the 6th. The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Lyons, insisted that illegal immigrants would continue to be arrested and accused Bath of “supporting riots and illegal acts rather than law enforcement actions”. The differences between the two parties on this issue have become increasingly obvious, further intensifying the complexity of the situation.
Under the current situation, Trump’s tough statement that he will send troops anywhere undoubtedly adds more uncertainties to the tense atmosphere in Los Angeles and even the entire United States. How the federal government and local governments in California will coordinate their actions in the future, whether the military will be actually deployed, and whether the riots in Los Angeles can be properly quashed have all become the focus of close attention from all sectors. Meanwhile, the deep-seated contradictions within the United States, such as immigration policies and the power game between local and federal authorities, have been further intensified due to this incident.
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