Protests continue for sixth day in Los Angeles, National Guard and military mobilized, curfew overnight only
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In America, the movement against the immigration policy has been intensifying since last week. The movement that started with the aggressive demonstration in Los Angeles for 6 days against the immigration policy being carried out by the President Donald Trump administration has also started to spread in the main cities of the big states of America.
After the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began to increase raids to increase the number of arrests of undocumented immigrants, immigrants from South American countries have started aggressive demonstrations with street protests.
Since Tuesday, along with Los Angeles, immigrants have demonstrated in Denver, Colorado, Chicago's downtown area, and Manhattan in New York. According to the American media AP, in addition to Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago and Manhattan demonstrated peacefully, but a large number of police were mobilized.
CNN has mentioned that the police in Denver fired tear gas, suspecting that the protest would be aggressive. While policemen were stationed in federal buildings in Chicago, police security was also increased in federal buildings in Manhattan. Dozens of protesters demonstrated in the downtown area of Manhattan. 45 people were arrested when there was a clash between the protesters and the police.
Last Thursday, immigrants started a protest in the city of Los Angeles in the state of California with an aggressive demonstration. During the Trump administration's implementation of the immigration policy, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began raiding the homes of undocumented immigrants living in Los Angeles, especially immigrants from South American countries.
As the movement intensified, 2,000 National Guards and 700 troops were mobilized under the direction of the Trump administration. According to the American media, three people have died during the protest so far.
Even after the mobilization of 2,000 National Guard and 700 troops, the curfew has been continued in the downtown area of Los Angeles, saying that the movement has not stopped. According to local time, curfew was announced from 8:00 pm on Tuesday to 6:00 am on Wednesday. Curfew was lifted throughout the day on Wednesday.
Although the curfew was lifted throughout the day on Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has announced a new curfew in the downtown area from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. Thursday.
Mayor Bass has announced a curfew to be effective from Wednesday night, according to American media CNN.
"As the ongoing movement shows no sign of abating, a curfew has been announced to be enforced in a 1 square mile area of downtown Los Angeles to prevent further damage and to create a situation where the movement can be peaceful," Mayer Bass said at a press conference, "The curfew will be strictly enforced again from Wednesday 8:30 a.m. to Thursday 6 a.m. local time." Mayor Bass also expressed her sorrow that people's lives were affected and many businesses were damaged due to the agitation. During the
movement, she informed that 23 business firms in the downtown area were robbed on Monday night alone. The total area of the city of Los Angeles is 522 square miles. Out of that curfew was imposed only in 1 square mile area.
Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said the curfew is necessary to save lives and protect property, according to CNN. "We have been forced to take this action due to the ongoing unrest and illegal, dangerous activity in the city over the past few days," said Police Chief McDonnell.
McDonnell said that 378 protesters have been arrested so far and 200 of them were arrested on Tuesday alone. The hearing of the case registered by the state of California against the Trump administration for repressing the protesters by deploying the National Guard will be held on Thursday.
Senior US District George Charles R. Breyer set the hearing date for Thursday. The court rejected the case filed by the State of California to stop the deployment of the National Guard deployed to the demonstration.
