Border Czar Tom Homan: “We Are Going to Bring National Guard in Tonight” to Los Angeles (UPDATE: Trump Orders 2000 Troops to LA)
Border Czar Tom Homan announced Saturday evening that the Trump administration is bringing the National Guard into Los Angeles after two days of obstructionist and violent protests of immigration raids and calls to kill ICE agents being spray-painted around the city.
Protesters escalated the violence Saturday by throwing rocks at ICE and other federal law enforcement vehicles leaving a raid at a Home Depot in the city of Paramount in Los Angeles County. Several windshields were shattered and one agent got hit in the hand, according to photos posted by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin. Protesters also set up a barricade on a roadway and tried to physically block a U.S. Marshal’s Service bus.
Homan spoke about deploying the National Guard in an interview with Fox News Saturday evening:
“This is about enforcing the law and again we’re not going to apologize for doing it. We are stepping up. She (Democrat L.A. Mayor Karen Bass) says they are going to mobilize, well, guess what? We are ahead of the game. We were already mobilizing. We are going to bring National Guard in tonight. We’re going to continue doing our jobs. We are going to push back on these people and enforce the law.”
Calls to kill ICE agents spray-painted around Los Angeles Friday in response to immigration raids. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin responded to the threats and Mayor Bass, “We will not stand for THIS.”
A senior Pentagon intelligence analyst told me that Homan’s remark wasn’t idle bluster. The Pentagon, he explained, has been actively discussing the deployment of military personnel to Los Angeles in response to the demonstrations.
It wasn’t clear if Homan was supposed to disclose it, but this isn’t just rhetoric, the Pentagon source told me.
The Insurrection Act requires that the president issue a formal dispersal order before sending in troops, which Trump has not done yet. But the administration has already alleged that the anti-ICE protesters are impeding federal law enforcement, which provides a legal basis for the Insurrection Act to be invoked, allowing for the California National Guard to be “federalized.”
UPDATE: White House statement:
“In recent days, violent mobs have attacked ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California. These operations are essential to halting and reversing the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States. In the wake of this violence, California’s feckless Democrat leaders have completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens. That is why President Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester. The Trump Administration has a zero tolerance policy for criminal behavior and violence, especially when that violence is aimed at law enforcement officers trying to do their jobs. These criminals will be arrested and swiftly brought to justice. The Commander-in-Chief will ensure the laws of the United States are executed fully and completely.”
-Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary
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