June 10, 2025 • 6 mins
Unrest is spreading in the US over immigrant deportations.
Donald Trump is sending hundreds of US Marines and has ordered 2000 more National Guard troops to go to LA's immigration protests.
California Governor Gavin Newsom's called the US President's orders deranged and has filed a lawsuit.
US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking of the 2000 National Guard troops deployed, only 315 were mission assigned, the other 1700 having no particular responsibility.
He says that 100 arrests have been made, but no charges have been laid.
LISTEN ABOVE
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right, La, Richard Arnold, morning to you. Where are we
at peerful?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Right now? How's that for headline? Los Angeles not burning?
The television images do not make clear really that the
immigration standoffs are occurring in a very small, maybe four
block section of LA. There has been some real violences.
We've seen some stores looted, bricks thrown. That Nine Network
reporter from Australia, Lauren Demarci, pit by a rubber bullet
while she was doing a live cross bullet fired by police. Also,
(00:29):
there is a lot of anti ice, immigration and customers
enforcement graffiti which now is being painted out. And there
were some WAYMOA cars set on fire by people now arrested.
It seems that the driverless cars were ordered into the
protest area just so it could be set on fire.
What we do see is images of armed National Guards
and now US Marines standing opposite protesters, which California Governor
(00:55):
Knewsom calls a blatant abuse for federal power by President Trump,
who has just bolding numbers and sent it seven hundred
camouflage marines with rifles as well, says there.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Were two thousand National Guard that were quote unquote deployed,
of which only three hundred and fifteen actually were mission assigned.
Seventeen hundred have no particular role or responsibility.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
They didn't have anywhere to stay, eve they they lay
down on the concrete floors to sleep, went awake standing
in front of a federal building. Again, one tiny spot
in a city of what ten million plus people. The
LA police have made about one hundred arrests. There were
no richs Utol. Of course, ICE agents moved in on
(01:41):
Saturday or time, says La May and Karen Bass.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
People go to work and then they have no idea
that their workplace is going to be invaded and it
is going to be an enforcement action. And you remember
when the administration started, he talked about violent criminals, drug dealers.
How do you go from a drug deal to chasing
people through the parking lot of a home depot where
(02:03):
there's day laborers working just trying to survive.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Two hundred and twenty one million New Zealand for the
marine deployment for sixty days, is what they're saying. The
ICE agents, wearing masks as they do, moved into the
fashion area first and rounded up forty six people who
were sitting at their sewing machines, claiming they were part
of a criminal money laundering operation, says Immigration Chief Tom Homan.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
They have to do with money monitoring, tax invasion and
customer trud or, a.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Company undeclared as underdeclared over eighty million.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Dollars in goods. Well.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
No charges have been laid, none at all. Trump says
LA would be a blaze if not for the actions
that he's taken.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
We didn't get involved right now, Los Angeles would.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Be burning, just like we was burning a number of
months ago, with all the houses that were last.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Most Californians don't buy that there is. They were a
war of words between all of the politicians. As The
New York Times today is running a peace headline, Trump
declares dubious emergencies to a mass power. Trump age Stephen
Miller called in ice chiefs the other day, told him
they were horrible and should be arresting three thousand people
a day. While the House Speaker says the Governor Newsom
(03:17):
should be quote trd and feathered, Trump says he would
support arresting the California Governor Newsom, who has responded.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
He's a tough guy. Why doesn't he do that? He
knows where to find me. But you know what, lay
your hands off four year old girls that are trying
to get educated. Lay your hands off. These poor people
are just trying to live their lives. Man trying to
live their lives paying their tax has been here ten years.
The fear, the horror, the hell is this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There's a lot of wild staff meantime. On Monday, reported
an eighteen year old high school kid, right Marcello to Silver,
who was stopped on his way to a volleyball practice.
Then his whole school marched to the local city hall
in Milford, Massachusetts for the court hearing, along with most
of the rest of the small town, with any people
wearing T shirts and blazon with this boys' school team
jersey number ten. Marcello now has been freed. While in Bakersfield,
(04:08):
a four year old girl has been brought to the
US because she was dying from a real disease where
she could not probably take the nutrients. She had seven
surgeries page four. Then doctors here gave her a specially
built backpack that would allow her to take in food
and survive. Then Trump ordered her to be deported, which
would have meant her death. There was a huge public outcry.
So now the federal government has back down. She won't
(04:30):
be deported. She can live all.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Right, mate, catch up in a couple of days, Richard
Arnold states, I'll come back to that in a couple
of moments. By the way, north of the border in Canada,
Charnie made an interesting move yesterday. They're going to move
to the NATO target of two percent GDP for defense,
and they're going to do it by he claims now
next year. It's currently at one point four. They're very
similar to us. They've sort of never had their act
together in defense spending, mainly because the Liberals. But finally
(04:53):
they've woken up to it. So we pledged to hit
two percent by twenty thirty previous government trade Oh said
twenty thirty two. Now he's up that, Carnie. He's going
to do it by March of next year. Apparently having
spent I don't know, several hours yesterday on and off
watching CNN. I this La thing. If you've been to La,
(05:14):
it's a massive city and anyone can fly a helicopter
over a couple of intersections, which is all I saw yesterday.
And you had a couple of hundred people, Max, and
you had a whole bunch of cops there, and they
were the most polite operators I've literally ever seen in
my life. They would sort of move the people back,
move the people back, move the people back, and basically
disperse them. And really, over the hours that I watched it,
(05:38):
nothing happened. And I saw CNN and they got up
in the face of the cops, and then they got
asked that there's a video floating around this morning. I
can't remember the guy's name, but he's one of the
reporters for CNN. He walks up to a cop and
the cop goes, look, we're going to es court. He
literally goes, we are going to escort you out now,
and so will escort you out one at a time
and you can all meet up back down the street there.
(05:59):
I need you to put your hands behind your back
and I'll escort you now, just one at a time.
It's the most mundane sedate removal from approatus. They do
thirty seconds of calm, don't they you go? March move move, move, move, hold, move, move, move,
move hold. And this went on for several hours, and
I thought, is this it is this really all we're
getting exercised about at the moment, remembering, of course, the
(06:20):
size of LA and for ninety nine point nine nine
nine percent of people in LA, they wouldn't even know
what was going on. So I just wonder if we're
just making a bigger deal of this than we need to.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
For more from The Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Right, La, Richard Arnold, morning to you. Where are we
at peerful?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Right now? How's that for headline? Los Angeles not burning?
The television images do not make clear really that the
immigration standoffs are occurring in a very small, maybe four
block section of LA. There has been some real violences.
We've seen some stores looted, bricks thrown. That Nine Network
reporter from Australia, Lauren Demarci, pit by a rubber bullet
while she was doing a live cross bullet fired by police. Also,
(00:29):
there is a lot of anti ice, immigration and customers
enforcement graffiti which now is being painted out. And there
were some WAYMOA cars set on fire by people now arrested.
It seems that the driverless cars were ordered into the
protest area just so it could be set on fire.
What we do see is images of armed National Guards
and now US Marines standing opposite protesters, which California Governor
(00:55):
Knewsom calls a blatant abuse for federal power by President Trump,
who has just bolding numbers and sent it seven hundred
camouflage marines with rifles as well, says there.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Were two thousand National Guard that were quote unquote deployed,
of which only three hundred and fifteen actually were mission assigned.
Seventeen hundred have no particular role or responsibility.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
They didn't have anywhere to stay, eve they they lay
down on the concrete floors to sleep, went awake standing
in front of a federal building. Again, one tiny spot
in a city of what ten million plus people. The
LA police have made about one hundred arrests. There were
no richs Utol. Of course, ICE agents moved in on
(01:41):
Saturday or time, says La May and Karen Bass.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
People go to work and then they have no idea
that their workplace is going to be invaded and it
is going to be an enforcement action. And you remember
when the administration started, he talked about violent criminals, drug dealers.
How do you go from a drug deal to chasing
people through the parking lot of a home depot where
(02:03):
there's day laborers working just trying to survive.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Two hundred and twenty one million New Zealand for the
marine deployment for sixty days, is what they're saying. The
ICE agents, wearing masks as they do, moved into the
fashion area first and rounded up forty six people who
were sitting at their sewing machines, claiming they were part
of a criminal money laundering operation, says Immigration Chief Tom Homan.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
They have to do with money monitoring, tax invasion and
customer trud or, a.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Company undeclared as underdeclared over eighty million.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Dollars in goods. Well.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
No charges have been laid, none at all. Trump says
LA would be a blaze if not for the actions
that he's taken.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
We didn't get involved right now, Los Angeles would.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Be burning, just like we was burning a number of
months ago, with all the houses that were last.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Most Californians don't buy that there is. They were a
war of words between all of the politicians. As The
New York Times today is running a peace headline, Trump
declares dubious emergencies to a mass power. Trump age Stephen
Miller called in ice chiefs the other day, told him
they were horrible and should be arresting three thousand people
a day. While the House Speaker says the Governor Newsom
(03:17):
should be quote trd and feathered, Trump says he would
support arresting the California Governor Newsom, who has responded.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
He's a tough guy. Why doesn't he do that? He
knows where to find me. But you know what, lay
your hands off four year old girls that are trying
to get educated. Lay your hands off. These poor people
are just trying to live their lives. Man trying to
live their lives paying their tax has been here ten years.
The fear, the horror, the hell is this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There's a lot of wild staff meantime. On Monday, reported
an eighteen year old high school kid, right Marcello to Silver,
who was stopped on his way to a volleyball practice.
Then his whole school marched to the local city hall
in Milford, Massachusetts for the court hearing, along with most
of the rest of the small town, with any people
wearing T shirts and blazon with this boys' school team
jersey number ten. Marcello now has been freed. While in Bakersfield,
(04:08):
a four year old girl has been brought to the
US because she was dying from a real disease where
she could not probably take the nutrients. She had seven
surgeries page four. Then doctors here gave her a specially
built backpack that would allow her to take in food
and survive. Then Trump ordered her to be deported, which
would have meant her death. There was a huge public outcry.
So now the federal government has back down. She won't
(04:30):
be deported. She can live all.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Right, mate, catch up in a couple of days, Richard
Arnold states, I'll come back to that in a couple
of moments. By the way, north of the border in Canada,
Charnie made an interesting move yesterday. They're going to move
to the NATO target of two percent GDP for defense,
and they're going to do it by he claims now
next year. It's currently at one point four. They're very
similar to us. They've sort of never had their act
together in defense spending, mainly because the Liberals. But finally
(04:53):
they've woken up to it. So we pledged to hit
two percent by twenty thirty previous government trade Oh said
twenty thirty two. Now he's up that, Carnie. He's going
to do it by March of next year. Apparently having
spent I don't know, several hours yesterday on and off
watching CNN. I this La thing. If you've been to La,
(05:14):
it's a massive city and anyone can fly a helicopter
over a couple of intersections, which is all I saw yesterday.
And you had a couple of hundred people, Max, and
you had a whole bunch of cops there, and they
were the most polite operators I've literally ever seen in
my life. They would sort of move the people back,
move the people back, move the people back, and basically
disperse them. And really, over the hours that I watched it,
(05:38):
nothing happened. And I saw CNN and they got up
in the face of the cops, and then they got
asked that there's a video floating around this morning. I
can't remember the guy's name, but he's one of the
reporters for CNN. He walks up to a cop and
the cop goes, look, we're going to es court. He
literally goes, we are going to escort you out now,
and so will escort you out one at a time
and you can all meet up back down the street there.
(05:59):
I need you to put your hands behind your back
and I'll escort you now, just one at a time.
It's the most mundane sedate removal from approatus. They do
thirty seconds of calm, don't they you go? March move move, move, move, hold, move, move, move,
move hold. And this went on for several hours, and
I thought, is this it is this really all we're
getting exercised about at the moment, remembering, of course, the
(06:20):
size of LA and for ninety nine point nine nine
nine percent of people in LA, they wouldn't even know
what was going on. So I just wonder if we're
just making a bigger deal of this than we need to.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
For more from The Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Popular Podcasts
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.