United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday, June 11, claimed his actions helped Los Angeles avoid disaster, asserting that the city would be in ruins without his intervention.
US President Donald Trump says, “I am very proud to have helped Los Angeles survive...We didn't do what we did, Los Angeles would be burning to the ground, and that's not over yet. These are radical left lunatics that you're dealing with. They are tough, smart. They are probably paid many of them...”
Donald Trump's decision to dispatch troops to Los Angeles despite the objections of California Governor Gavin Newsom has sparked a national debate about the use of the military on US soil. Newsom's administration has sued the US government to stop the deployment.
City Mayor Karen Bass, who imposed a curfew in some parts of Los Angeles, also urged Donald Trump to end the raids.
But, Donald Trump insists that his actions have saved Los Angeles.
Since their deployment in Los Angeles to curb the protests, the US troops have started directly detaining immigrants accused of trespassing on a recently designated national defence zone along the southern US border, in an escalation of the military's enforcement role.
Those migrants were quickly turned over to US Customs and Border Protection and are now among more than 1,400 migrants to have been charged with illegally entering militarised areas along that border, under a new border enforcement strategy from President Donald Trump's administration.
Troops are prohibited from conducting civilian law enforcement on US soil under the Posse Comitatus Act. But an exception known as the military purpose doctrine allows it in some instances.
US Army Lieutenant Colonel Chad Campbell detailed the first detention by the US troops and said, “A Department of Defense response went to interdict those three individuals, told them to sit down. In a matter of three minutes, border patrol agents came in to apprehend. So that three minutes is that temporary detention.”
(With agency inputs)
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