LA protests live updates: Trump mobilizes 700 Marines to respond to anti-ICE demonstrations

[orangecrush]

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Source: The Independent

As many as 700 Marines have been mobilized by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to support a total of 2,000 National Guard troops deployed by President Donald Trump in an effort to quell protests against his immigration policies in Los Angeles.

They are there in a supporting role and are prohibited from conducting law enforcement activity, such as arrests, unless the Insurrection Act is invoked.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/los-angeles-ice-protests-latest-trump-b2765843.html

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Translation -

HE IS GOING TO INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT

THATS WHY ALL THE TANKS IN DC

[Botany]

1. Posse Comitatus

This very illegal. Krasnov wants violence and a civil war. Krasnov doesn’t give two shits
about undocumented immigrants because he used them on his building in Manhattan and
@ his Bedminster golf course. They are an excuse to ramp up confrontations between
American people and its own military.

[orangecrush]

2. Never thought I'd live to see this

And it won't end well for anyone.

[Omaha Steve]

3. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

DUPE of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143474971

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