Richard Arnold: Trump deploys National Guards in Los Angeles in response to large protests

Large-scale protests have erupted in Los Angeles in response to ICE deportations set up by President Trump to crack down on illegal immigrants. 

The National Guard has now been deployed to LA by The President to assist the local police and riot squads in stopping the protests. 

A third of the people living in Los Angeles were born outside of the USA, with many hailing from Central and South America. 

President Trump has insisted that these deportation raids only target “hardened criminals.”  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Richard Arnold, Morning, morning mate, once again in the streets
of la not looking surflesh. Oh well, actually it's pretty
quiet right now. But armored military vehicles carrying National Guardsmen
are moving into the place on orders of Trump. Some
two thousand rifle carrying troops are being deployed to Los
Angeles as the Trump team is ramping up its immigration rates.
Los Angeles has about a third of its population born

(00:22):
outside this country. Hundreds of thousands of people are undocumented.
Trump has said the Feds would go after the worst
of the worst, as he calls them hardened criminals. Well,
not exactly how this is playing out. Is a couple
of cases in recent days. In Milford up in Massachusetts,
students left their classes the other day to show support
for a kid, Marcello the Silver. He is an eighteen

(00:43):
year old high school honored student who was detained by
Ice immigration agents who arrived in three unmarked cars as
this teenager drove his volleyball teammates to sports practice. This
team was born in Brazil had lived in this town
since he was five years old. He is also a
member of the school band. Many students marched in their
gowns from their school graduations, who joined hundreds of others

(01:05):
in the town to protest the other day outside the
town hall. Meantime, in San Diego, at the city's major
recreation area, Balboa Park, which was the site of a
World expo back in nineteen fifteen, the ICE agents turned
up at a local Italian restaurant. Most restaurant workers in
California are Hispanics. Everybody knows that. When the ICE agents
were spotted, local San Diego confronted the ICE agents, who

(01:28):
were in full military tactical garb, and shouted shame, shame,
as the FEDS arrested for workers and led these pizza
makers and buster makers off in handcuffs. So now it's
the turn of la where the ICE agents arrested more
than one hundred people this weekend amid more protests when
they turned up in a mostly Latino community and also
at a building supply store where undocumented laborers look for work,

(01:51):
as they do at every such hardware store in this state.
That is the California way, but not so much this.
Flash bang grenades were fired by the agents as the
protests grew. As this whole thing developed.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
To be peacefool, We're here to speak up against the
injustices we're seeing in the world, and that's.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Why we're here.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
I win it.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Most of the protests has been pretty peaceful, being pretty active,
seeing in support of people, unlockily being.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
You can hear the car horns from those supporters driving by.
Some people were unwittingly injured.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
There was a woman here and her young daughter.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
She was around thirteen. I kept in touch with them,
and as we speak, she's in the hospital. Because that's
your guys, bomb hitter right in.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
The face, says another bystander in this particular situation.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Instead of them peacefully telling us.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
To back up, they just started paper spraying. Now there's
a lot of women out there that have taper spread.
And another in this same spot came out.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
And wanted to see what was all the commotion and sure,
indeed there were I seasons.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Gaboom, Yeah, people chanted against the ICE agent says they
were doing all of this. They said, shame, shame.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
LA's meek.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Karen Bass says all this were not targeting criminals, but
was simply, in her mind, provocation that was unneeded.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
This is the first time this has happened in our
city like this. We know ICE has been here but
it's been for targeted arrests. This was just mass chaos,
and it sows a sense of chaos in our city
and a sense of terror, and.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
It's just except at the White House. Trump aide Stephen
Miller says the protesters are part of a quote insurrection.
A Defense secretary Hegseth said fully, our marines are on
full alert and might be deployed as well, and speaking
Mike Johnson was pressed about this a short time ago.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't think that's heavy handed.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I think sent the marines into the streets of an
American city is heavy handed. We had to be prepared
to do what is necessary.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
California, as Governor Gavin Newsom calls it all deranged quote unquote,
Trump's Homeland chief Christie Nooame, the one who shot her
dog because it was badly behaves, says.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Their vehicle's being burned, flags being burned in the street,
and Molotov cocktails being thrown. Governor Newsom has proven that
he makes bad decisions. The President knows that he makes
bad decisions, and that's why the President chose the safety
of this community over waiting for Governor Newsom to get
some sanity.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
A lot of politics. Here, Trump posted quote, great job
by the national Guard in Los Angeles. Well, he posted
that praise for the national Guard where the national Guard
hadn't even arrived yet, all right. See Wednesday Richard al
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