Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania took his fellow Democratic officials to task for not coming out forcefully against the riots happening in Los Angeles.
Beginning Friday, protesters and rioters flooded the streets in opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions in the city, involving rounding up criminal illegal aliens.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump federalized units of the California National Guard and began deploying them Sunday into Los Angeles. On Monday, he also sent in U.S. Marines from the Twentynine Palms base, located near Palm Springs, east of LA.
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom responded by suing the Trump administration for the deployment of the military, calling it “an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.”
Past presidents, including Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and George H.W.
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