Democratic governors blast Trump's illegal invasion of California
Essentially every Democratic governor in the country signed onto a statement on Monday slamming President Donald Trump for unilaterally deploying the National Guard in California to try to squash protests against his immigration raids.
In the statement, 22 Democratic governors—every one in the nation, excluding California’s Gavin Newsom, who is also fighting the deployment in his state—called the move "an alarming abuse of power."
"Governors are the Commanders in Chief of their National Guard and the federal government activating them in their own borders without consulting or working with a state’s governor is ineffective and dangerous," the governors wrote. “Further, threatening to send the U.S. Marines into American neighborhoods undermines the mission of our service members, erodes public trust, and shows the Trump administration does not trust local law enforcement."
On Saturday, Trump called in the National Guard to Los Angeles, falsely claiming that protests against his administration’s stepped-up Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids “constitute a form of rebellion” that required the military to step in to quell.
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