VILLARAIGOSA: TRUMP’S DIVISIVE ICE RAIDS AND DEPLOYMENT OF CALIFORNIA’S NATIONAL GUARD IS MEANT TO INCITE CHAOS

Press Release
Written By Michelle Jeung

First Time in 60 Years a President Has Deployed National Guard Without Request from Governor

LOS ANGELES – Antonio Villaraigosa, former Speaker of the California Assembly and 41st Mayor of Los Angeles, released the following statement about President Trump’s decision to activate California’s national guard without a request from the Governor — something no other president has done since 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators.

“Trump’s military-style mass deportation ICE raids in California have gone too far, tearing families apart and threatening public safety. The raids at stores and workplaces are wrong, just as it’s wrong to separate families with raids at schools, graduations, and churches. Now, Trump is escalating division with his unnecessary, unilateral deployment of California’s national guard, which is clearly meant to incite more fear and chaos in our community. Trump has no interest in protecting civil and constitutional rights, he has every intention of taking them away with his extreme actions to attack the people of California.”

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Michelle Jeung
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