Trump orders Marines to LA in additional deployment as unrest continue

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US President Donald Trump is deploying more National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles as protests in the city continue.
Monday’s protests were generally calmer, our correspondent Peter Bowes writes, but the prospect of Marines on the streets has sent shivers through communities.
California Governor Gavin Newsom says he will take legal action against the deployments, calling Trump “deranged” and “dictatorial”. Demonstrations in the city continued into a fourth day on Monday, with new rallies starting up across the US against immigration authorities.
Rubber bullets, stun grenades and other non-lethal weapons have been used against the protesters.US President Donald Trump is deploying 700 US Marines to the LA area after several days of protests – a move that California Governor Gavin Newsom has said he “will sue”.
The marines will be “protecting federal personnel and federal property” alongside several thousand National Guard troops, the US military has said. Trump said on Monday that his decision to send in the National Guard had stopped LA from “burning down”.
But Newsom has objected to their deployment and accused the president of stoking the unrest.
Demonstrators took to LA’s streets on Friday after it emerged Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were raiding areas with a large Latino population – and the protests have continued for four days.
Police officers on Monday evening fired stun grenades and gas canisters to disperse hundreds of demonstrators outside a federal detention Centre holding undocumented immigrants.
Elsewhere yesterday, new rallies started up across the country against the immigration authorities – including in Tampa, Florida, Boston in Massachusetts and Houston, Texas.
President Donald Trump will visit the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina later today, where he is expected to deliver remarks.
This comes as his administration announced it would deploy 700 Marines to Los Angeles in response to street protests that started on Friday and continued over the weekend. National Guard troops have already been deployed to the city.
Fort Bragg is home to some 50,000 active-duty soldiers.
Trump’s visit comes ahead of a major parade in Washington to celebrate the US Army’s 250th anniversary on Saturday.
A Los Angeles City Council member tells BBC World Service’s Newsday that US President Donald Trump’s actions have been “truly despicable”.
Hugo Soto-Martinez’s constituency covers the Paramount area, where immigration officials carried out raids.
“Much of the escalation has been bought on by Trump’s tactics,” Soto-Martinez says.
He says he doesn’t buy claims that the National Guard and Marines have been bought in to keep law enforcement officials safe.
“We’ve had protests in the city, we know how to handle situations,” he says. “We didn’t feel overwhelmed…[Trump] is simply using this situation to bring terror and fear and division.”
Soto-Martinez adds that the Latino community in Paramount are terrified: “This is beyond the pale, I don’t even have words for his actions.”