With the gathering of members of the Democratic Senate on Tuesday at a closed weekly lunch, they heard from their California colleagues, Alex Padilla and Adam Chef, who carefully varied between isolated sabotage in Los Angeles and the largest number of peaceful demonstrators who gathered in the streets to oppose deportation efforts Trump Trump.
Almost at the same time, Mr. Trump was around the city in the Oval Office that weakens the violence stories, and asked the combined cameras, “Did you see the man throwing rocks on police cars?”
For Democrats, scenes of disturbances scattered in southern California have pushed to the center two issues that endured Republican gains in recent years – migration and crime – as party leaders are concerned that the president puts a dangerous political trap with very heinous provocations so that they cannot be ignored. With the spread of demonstrations to other cities, the mayor of Los Angeles on Tuesday evening It announced the curfew for parts of the city.
It launched the extraordinary decision of Mr. Trump to send the military forces to put out local demonstrators for the interception of the local authorities, including the governor of the state, Gavin New Toho
In an interview, Mr. Chef urged his party to back down from Mr. Trump without falling prey to his political framing.
“The president does not want something better than creating a conflict in Los Angeles to show his strong legs credit by taking strict measures against chaos.”. His first isolation. “The president is a chaos agent. He flourishes the turmoil. He flourishes in the situations that allow him to demonstrate, to act as a strong man.”
Mr. Trump used viral photos of car fires, damaged property and disintegrated demonstrators, who are waving foreign flags to enhance his allegations of the campaign. He used them as a justification, sometimes after the truth, for his decision to deploy the National Guard forces and the Marine Corps, despite Mr. Newsom’s objections, a democratic.
Opinion polls It appears long Immigration and crime as areas of democratic weakness. Some Democrats see the risk that the party appears soft on crime and criminals without clearer condemnation.
Senator John Vitirman of Pennsylvania, a democratic, has increasedly broken with his party, the scenes that are unveiled in Los Angeles as “a true chaos and chaos”, with the publication of a picture that the Republicans greatly made from a man who is waving the Mexican mark that is standing on a Vandic car surrounded by fire.
Mr. Vitirman wrote on Monday: “The ethical ethical parties are losing when we refuse to condemn cars on fire, destroy buildings, and attack the law.”
The confrontation-from the political point of view and on the streets-was between the difficult immigration agenda of Mr. Trump and the largest blue country in the country.
“We all learned that this day will come,” said actor Jimmy Gomez of California on Tuesday in Capitol Hill, which is surrounded by other Democrats from the state.
Mr. Newsom He asked a judge on Tuesday to prohibit Placed the planned forces of the Trump administration. Meanwhile, one of the influential Democrats in the House of Representatives said on Tuesday that Mr. Trump’s actions were a crime that could be due.
But even at a time when Democrats are trying to fight, a few issues have left the party more divided than the enforcement of immigration, with some of them in the party. Moving to the right Along with the American public in recent years. The most prominent Democrats highlighted the recent violence, and many have cited local officials who say that such incidents have been often isolated.
“It is a Trump manufacturer that begins with the increasing delights, increased cruelty, and increasingly aggressive ice raidsand“At the end of the day, we must bear Trump and remind everyone that he is doing it to distract his attention from his terrible failed agenda. “
Mr. Newsom used his confrontation with Mr. Trump – who thought about his arrest – to raise himself as one of the leading democratic chips at the national level of Mr. Trump, and in response to President’s comments with Pravado and apparently in the actual time.
With the weekend heading, the American political class was consumed by the opera disappearance of the warm relationship between Elon Musk and Mr. Trump. Mr. Musk attacked the axis of the agenda of the Legislative President K. “A disgusting abomination“Mr. Trump threatened to take revenge on the billionaire technical companies.
Now attention to California, where Mr. Trump is explicit Pushed. It was published on the federal forces without the approval of the first country since it was sent to protect civil rights demonstrators in Alabama for more than half a century.
The current situation mentioned some protests and riots that followed the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by a Mininapolis police officer five years ago. The political effects of both parties – a racist account and a subsequent violent reaction – continue to continue.
There is another possible TinderBox waving on the horizon this week, when Mr. Trump has She planned a military parade For the birthday of the Army 250 – which coincides with itself. “These people who want to protest, they will meet very great strength,” to caution.
Mr. Trump and his assistants, including his long -term migration and vice chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, are determined to re -allocate the term “rebellion”, which was often used to describe anti -Democratic demonstrators and Democrats.
“This is the definition of the rebellion,” Mr. Miller wrote about X about the mayor of Los Angeles Democratic, Karen Bass, after she called for the end of federal immigration raids.
Mr. Chef said that such messages “will be entertaining if it is not common” coming from the White House pardon Participants on January 6. He urged his party to give Mr. Trump’s actions not only as a transcendence, but also as a violation of his pledges to focus on securing the borders and removing violent criminals who entered the country illegally.
Mr. Chef said: “The president promised that he would focus on deporting violent criminals and betraying this promise.”
Frank Charry, the founder of America’s vote for a long time for immigrants and immigration reform, said that the lack of a unified democratic vision on this issue – how to deal with both borders and those in the country illegally – was wandering about the party’s ability to respond more strongly.
“The reason is that some Democrats are afraid that they will tend to migrate is that they do not have a particularly good defense, and what they really lack is a good crime,” said Mr. Charry. “If the Democrats have a very clear position and directed towards solutions on immigration, they will contradict Trump’s extremism with pragmatism, and this is a discussion that Democrats can win.”
He said that the problem is that there is no such situation yet.
“Democrats need knowledge not only what they contradict, but what they are doing,” said Mr. Shari about opposing Mr. Trump’s tactics. “I know this looks vulgar, but you cannot overcome anything without anything.”
A majority of 54 percent of Americans supported Mr. Trump’s program to illegally deport those in the country, according to L. CBS News/Yougov poll I took on the eve of the current immigration battle. The Americans would support Mr. Trump’s goals, if not necessarily his approach.
Mr. Trump also sorted with Latin voters in 2024, when he suppressed the emigration of his campaign.
In recent days, he and his allies have continued to say that California in general and Los Angeles in particular are descending into a chaotic country without law. Meanwhile, local officials said that the violence was spoiled only, even when it spread widely on social media.
At a position on his own on Tuesday, Mr. Trump Claim With his usual ambiguity that if thousands of National Guard forces do not deploy to Los Angeles, “the beautiful and great city that was burning on the ground now.”
The federal government arms were enlarged by his argument.
The official Ministry of National Security account on x Publish a video From the same scene that Mr. Fetterman cited with burning cars and a man who is waving the Mexican flag, adding, “California politicians must call mob’s riot.” The post provided Mr. Newsom.
One of the most veteran Democrats in Capitol Hill, actor Maxine Waters, who represents an area in Los Angeles Province, claimed that everything was peaceful despite pictures of clashes.
“There was no violence,” Mrs. Waters said on Tuesday, in a video carried by Republicans Soon the generalization. “I was on the street. I know.”
Actress Evit d. Clark from New York, head of the Black Rally in Congress, she believes that the actions of Mr. Trump – who send forces due to the interception of local officials – have risen to the level of disposable crimes.
“If this president is ready to send the military forces to an American city on peaceful opposition, we must ask what is happening after that,” she said at a press conference in the Capitol. “What is the next American society.”
Mrs. Clark and American conference chairs of Spanish and Asian Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Ocean were overcoming questions from conservative or right -wing armed outlets, including the Washington Times, the Times flag, Fox News, the connected News Daily, and Daily Signal, in a sign that the issue of immigration was hesitating on the right.
Actor Beit Aguar from California, President of the Democratic House of Representatives Conference, said on Tuesday that his party’s response to the areas in the swinging areas next year who were interested in pictures of turmoil would be pivotal to the Republican retreat of health care programs.
He said: “Our mission is widely for this audience.”
But some have the right hope that immigration be prominent in 2026 as it did in 2024.
“The more Democrats in this madness with the protests, the more Republicans believed that they can already win the mid -time even if they cut a maid,” Matthew Boyle, the head of the Washington’s influential office in the Trump’s probing newspaper, Trump. Note on x. “It is unrealistic.”
