ICE prepares full assault on five Democrat cities as LA goes into lockdown amid immigration riots
Donald Trump is set to deploy ICE tactical units to five Democrat-run cities amid the riots in
Los Angeles as
Gavin Newsom nearly broke into tears while
blaming his administration for inciting the California chaos.
The military-style units are set to storm New York City, Seattle,
Chicago, Philadelphia and northern
Virginia,
MSNBC reported. Four of those five are heavily blue cities, while northern Virginia contains the
Democrat enclave of Alexandria.
The ICE raids have sparked protests that brought Los Angeles to its knees,
as the mayor opted to introduce a lockdown from 8pm to 6am.
The reports came as the California governor delivered a harrowing prediction for the rest of the country Tuesday night in a nationally televised address that blasted Trump's deployment of US troops to Los Angeles.
'Look, this isn't just about protests here in Los Angeles, when Donald Trump sought blanket authority to
commandeer the National Guard. He made that order apply to every state in this nation,' Newsom said, as he teared up.
'This is about all of us. This is about you.
California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault before our eyes, this moment we have feared has arrived.'
Newsom accused Trump of 'taking a wrecking ball to our founding fathers' historic project' of three co-equal branches of government.
As the governor delivered his teary address, the President was greeting US military personnel at Fort Bragg.
He was in North Carolina to recognise the 250th anniversary of the US Army, but spent much of the speech defending the decision to deploy soldiers against 'animals' and 'foreign enemies' protesting against ICE arrests in LA.
'What you're witnessing in California is a full blown assault on peace, on public order and national sovereignty... with the aim of continuing a foreign invasion of our country. We're not gonna let that happen,' he said.
'We will not allow an American city to be invaded and conquered by a foreign enemy. That's what they are.'
The president went on to call LA 'a trash heap' with 'entire neighborhoods under control' of criminals, adding the government would 'use every asset at our disposal to quell the violence and restore law and order.'
'We will liberate Los Angeles and make it free, clean and safe again,' Trump said.
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