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| President Trump goes to war against 'sanctuary city' Los Angeles with major new action |
| 2025-07-01 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump is ramping up his war against liberal 'sanctuary city' Los Angeles with a new major lawsuit. The Justice Department, led by Trump appointee Pam Bondi, sued the city on Monday following weeks of anti-ICE riots and destruction. The lawsuit argues that LA's policies attempting to 'deliberately' thwart the work of immigration agents violate federal law. 'Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,' Bondi said in a statement to the Daily Mail. 'Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump.' It comes after DOJ also sued Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado, Rochester, New York, challenging the cities' so-called sanctuary policies. Los Angeles has drawn the ire of the Trump administration as local authorities were unable to quell the riots that overran parts of the city earlier in June. In response to the riots, Trump took control of the California National Guard and ordered them to descend upon the city. He directed them to 'provide safety around buildings and to those that are engaged in peaceful protests, and also to our law enforcement officers, so they can continue their daily work,' as described by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem during a CBS interview earlier this month. The president slammed rioters as 'bad people' and 'animals' and even flirted with invoking the Insurrection Act. He brushed off California Gov. Gavin Newsom's claim that the deployment inflamed the situation. And he would not rule out use of an authority to deploy military forces under his control to put down disturbances if he sees fit. 'If there's an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it. We'll see. But I can tell you, last night was terrible. The night before that was terrible,' Trump said on June 10. 'If we didn't send in the National Guard quickly, right now, Los Angeles would be burning to the ground.' Trump later called in the U.S. Marines to Los Angeles to protect the Wilshire Federal Building, which houses several federal offices amid further riots that were planned in the city. During his own visit to Los Angeles, Vice President JD Vance toured a multiagency Federal Joint Operations Center and a mobile command center came as demonstrations calmed down in the city and a curfew was lifted. That followed over a week of sometimes-violent clashes between protesters and police and outbreaks of vandalism and looting that followed immigration raids across Southern California. Related: Los Angeles: 2025-06-29 Haitian migrants face mass deportation from America after dramatic update Los Angeles: 2025-06-29 DHS Raids Los Angeles Home Tied to Iranian Smuggling Ring; Terror Watchlist Suspects Arrested Los Angeles: 2025-06-29 California Energy Commission calls for shelving plans to fine oil companies |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 ^ Well "Jose" would know |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-07-01 11:11 |
| #1 SEN ALEX PADILLA: JD Vance and Trump personify political theater. And we're watching their biggest act yet |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-07-01 09:36 |