Protesters will protest outside the Downtown Los Angeles prison after two days of clashes with police in a series of immigration attacks in Los Angeles, California on June 8, 2025. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump sent California governor to Los Angeles to be arrested Monday, calling for Trump to mobilize the protests without the governor’s consent to mobilize.
Protests in the activities of immigration and customs enforcement agents in Los Angeles sparked a weekend dispute between protesters and federal agents in downtown and nearby Paramount. Newsom on Monday said California was suing the administration over violations of national sovereignty.
Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House that he supported the idea that White House border Czar Tom Homan would arrest Newsom. Homan said elected officials could be arrested for preventing attacks by ice agents.
Newsom on Sunday challenged Homan, I’m saying“Come after me, arrest me and get over it, tough guy.”
“If I were Tom, I would do that,” Trump said when asked if Homan should arrest Newsom. “I think it’s great. Gavin likes advertising… He did a terrible job. I like Gavin Newsom, he’s a good guy, but he’s grossly incompetent, everyone knows.”
Newsom, a Democrat, framed the conflict with the White House as a fundamental test of the autonomy capabilities of every state.
“This is a preview of the upcoming episode,” he told progressive podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen in a clip of the governor’s X account shared Monday morning. “This isn’t about LA. Today is about us. It’s about you. Tomorrow is everyone. I promise you. This guy is indifferent. Donald Trump is indifferent now.”
The Marines deploy
About 700 US Marines Travelling to Los Angeles The US military said it aims to “protect federal personnel and federal property in the Los Angeles area” as part of the federal response. CNN First reported Mobilization of the Marines. The move could exacerbate state and federal tensions surrounding the protest.
That development followed Trump’s mobilization of 2,000 California National Guard members on Sunday.
It was marked for the first time since 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson sent troops to Alabama Protecting civil rights protesters – The President deployed the National Guard to the state over the governor’s objection.
Trump also called the Riot Act of 1807 to refuse to take more control over the situation. He and his allies have called protesters “rebels” several times.
He said Sunday Night Reporter That he is not invoking any acts. This allows the president to allow military operations to be used domestically, and says that deciding to do so “it depends on whether there is a rebellion or not.” On Monday, he said “rebels” were causing problems in California.
According to Calmatters“Sunday’s protesters faced off against police officers who fired dozens of non-fatal rounds trying to disperse people on the streets surrounding the 300 North Los Angeles federal building.
“At least two self-driving cars burned up near the protest, so police continued to soak up the rally with rubber bullets until the late afternoon.”
Law and Order
On January 6, 2021, Trump begged his supporters to raid the U.S. Capitol, then forgiven the hundreds of people who were responsible for the crimes that day, and said repeatedly controlling California protests would be necessary to protect ice agents and Californians from protesters.
Trump has called “law and order” his number one priority and has been floating extreme ways to maintain order.
On Sunday, when asked what the bar should be to send our Marines to Los Angeles, he replied, “I think the bar is.”
In X, Defense Secretary Pete Hegses proposed that the Marines could use it in that situation.
“The National Guard and Marines are standing like ice,” he posted Sunday.
National authority in question
Newsom and other Democrats call the deployment of the National Guard a violation of national sovereignty.
Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta said they filed a lawsuit Monday. The 10th amendment to the Constitution protects state rights.
“Donald Trump is creating fear and terror by failing to comply with the US Constitution and exaggerate his authority. This is a manufactured crisis that allows him to take over the state’s militia, and undermines the very foundations of our Republic.”
“All Governors of Red or Blue should reject this outrageous excess committee. This is beyond incompetence. This is for him to intentionally cause confusion, terrorize our community and put our great democratic principles at stake. It is an unmistakable step into authoritarianism.
A copy of the lawsuit was not immediately available Monday.
Newsom won support from Democratic colleagues across the country, including Sunday statement From the Democratic Governors Association, a political group that includes all the blue governors of the country.
“President Trump’s move to deploy California’s National Guard is an astounding power abuse,” the governor said. “The governor is the commander of the National Guard Chief, and it is ineffective and dangerous for the federal government to activate them at their borders without working with the governor of the state. What’s more, it threatens to send the US Marines to their US neighbourhoods, undermining the mission of our service members, eroding the trust of the people, indicating that the Trump administration does not trust local law enforcement agencies.”
Republican governors saw this issue differently. He supported Trump and praised his approach to law enforcement.
“All Democrat governors have approved lawlessness and confusion on American streets,” RGA I said it on social media In response to the DGA statement.
Congressional Republicans broadcast a similar message, describing the development as a step towards law and order.
“If Gavin Newsom doesn’t enforce the law, President Trump would,” Oklahoma Sen. Mark Wayne Mullin wrote to X.
