California braces for Trump National Guard deployments

President Trump’s decision to place hundreds of National Guard Union in Washington had a high alarm for California officials, and some of them plan to activate the Federal forces in the Gulf Region and Southern California, especially during the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Trump said that the use of the national guards to combat crime could expand to other cities and that the local police could not do the job.

Legal experts say that the deployment of powers without a major crisis such as civilian restlessness or a natural disaster is quite unusual and disturbing. Similar to the decision to send the army to Los Angeles in June that the distribution of Washington to the Los Angeles in June is another example of Trump, who is trying to use the army for domestic efforts in the midst of a protests.

Washington has been fighting for crime for a long time, but in recent years he has seen great discounts.

Oakland and Los Angeles officials – the presidential name – Trump’s cities in the cities of the crime hit his comments. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said in a statement that the characterization of the President does not actually root, but he said, “Based on changing fear to get cheap political points,” he said. The Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass called it “performer” and “stunt.

Trump said he would consider deploying the army once again to Los Angeles to protect the 2028 Olympic games. This month, he signed a manager order in Los Angeles games that gave the name of the White House Mission Force.

The White House did not especially say which role to play in Trump’s security arrangements.

IMELDA Padilla, a member of the Los Angeles Municipal Assembly, who sits in the city panel that controls the games, admitted that the city’s plans to secure the activity of the federal government last week.

Congress recently approved $ 1 billion for security and planning for games. The representative of the Ministry of Internal Security refused to explain to Times how to use funds.

Padilla said that his concern was based on the predictable nature of the management and masked, heavy armed agents in home warehouse car parks and car wash, and he said he was based on the latest migration raids using heavy armed agents.

During the Los Angeles Current Jobs Forum event, Padilla said, “Everything we see with raids was a real curve ball for our city,” he said. “A real curve ball [efforts] People like homelessness, such as transportation … Focusing on things like economic development, ”he said.

Bass, appearing in CNN this week, said that it was “completely suitable” to use national guards during the Olympics. The city said, “When there is more than 200 countries here, it expects a federal response, that is, it means the presidents of more than 200 countries. Of course, the involvement of the army. This is routine.”

However, Bass said that La Olympics safety and Trump’s federal government’s immigration pressure after protests by bringing the national guard and US seafarers. This deployment faces legal challenges on the decision of a Court of Appeal that Trump has the legal authority to send the national guards.

“Then I believed it and now I believe Los Angeles is a test state, and I think it’s a test status of DC,” he said. “To put it, we can take over your city whenever we want, and I can use my chief commander and troops whenever we want.”

On Monday, Trump attributed his action to a familiar theme: perceived urban decay.

“You’re looking at Chicago, how bad, you look at Los Angeles, how bad. We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then there is Baltimore and Oakland.“ We won’t let this happen. We will not lose our cities in this regard. “

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the officers and agents deployed in the Columbia Region have made 23 arrests for crimes such as murder, narcotics, immoral actions, reckless driving, wage smuggling and not getting permission. Authorized, six illegal pistols were seized.

Experts, the national guard troops of the crime without the support of a state governor as a reason to disperse it is not seen to be extremely similar, he said. The National Guard was previously deployed to Southern California during civil unrest after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020.

William Banks, a law professor at the University of Syracuse, said, “This would be terrible because he would openly violate his legal authorities, and he would be re -sued by the governor and the mayors of La and Oakland,” he said. “Citizens in these cities would be in their arms. They would be a lot of soldiers who patrolled the streets.”

The Columbia region has no control over the national guards that give a wide latitude to distribute these troops to the President. In California and other states, the head of the National Guard is the governor and there are legal limits on how to use federal troops.

After the end of the restructuring, the Posse Comitatus law, which was in 1878, prevents the use of federal troops in civil law enforcement officers. The law reflects a tradition dating back to the revolutionary war period, which sees military intervention as a threat to freedom and democracy.

UC Berkeley Dean of the Faculty of Law and Constitutional Law Specialist Erwin Cheterinsky said, uz We do not use the army for internal law enforcement officers and it is a feature of authoritarian countries to see the army was used in this way. ” “This has never been so much in the United States, and many of them are worried about how President Trump plays the way authoritarian executives do it.”

Among the raids of the federal migration in June, whether the troops deployed to Los Angeles were used for the internal law enforcement officers who violate the Posse Comitatus Law, this week at the federal court in San Francisco.

If Trump was going to send troops to California, Banks said that the only legal branch he could draw would be to declare an uprising and call the uprising law.

Unlike DC, Trump could not federalize police departments in other parts of the country. Ed Obayashi, the assistant of Northern California Şerif and the policing consultant Ed Obayashi, said that the Federal Government’s departments consent – a reform tool for illegal practices – but in these cases there are conditions in which certain civil rights claims, but in these cases claiming certain violations of civil rights.

“You won’t go in and take over because you say the crime has increased in a certain place,” he said.

Oakland Mayor Ken Houston, a third generation resident elected in 2024, said the city did not need to help public security of the federal government.

Oakland has fought crime for years, but Houston said to progress. According to city data, violence crimes, including murder, aggravated attacks, rape and robbery, fell 29% of the same period this year. Property crimes, including theft, motor vehicle theft and theft, are also prone.

“He goes to the old numbers and touches on a point, Hous Houston said. “Oakland does not need national guards.”

Times staff writer Noah Goldberg contributed to this report.