Trump “flamed the fires and illegally acted to federalize the National Guard.” 5:18 Protests against immigration raids grip Los AngelesPresident Donald Trump deployed hundreds of National Guard troops to Los Angeles to help address violent clashes between demonstrators and authorities over immigration enforcement operations there. Tensions are escalating in Los Angeles as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement grip the city, with demonstrators clashing with law enforcement and setting vehicles on fire downtown. President Donald Trump deployed 2,000 National Guardsmen to “address the lawlessness,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. But California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the administration to rescind the deployment, saying Trump is trying “to manufacture a crisis” and that the president is “hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.” Trump administration border czar Tom Homan refuted claims that he was going to arrest Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, telling Fox News that an interview from this weekend was taken out of context. “The reporter asked about, ‘Could Governor, Governor Newsom, or Mayor Bass, be arrested?’ I said, ‘Well, no one’s above the law, if they cross the line and commit a crime. Absolutely they can,'” Homan explained. “So there was no discussion about arresting Newsom.”
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