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Demonstrators hit the streets again in L.A. after President Trump deployed the National Guard due to protests against ICE raids.
Some 700 active-duty Marines were sent to Los Angeles in June amid a spate of protests in the city. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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FOX 11 Los Angeles on MSNMarines to end Los Angeles deployment, Pentagon saysRoughly 700 U.S. Marines are being withdrawn from Los Angeles following anti-immigration protests last month, according to the Pentagon.
The 700 U.S. Marines sent to respond to anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles will end their deployment, a spokesperson for the Pentagon confirmed to Forbes on Monday—days after the administration began withdrawing National Guard troops deployed for the same purpose.
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Heather Mac Donald links border policies to civil unrest in California, suggesting immigration caps could improve assimilation as protests continue under the Trump administration.
Benito Flores, 70, was found dead Friday in the backyard of his state-owned home. Supporters say he fell from a tree house he was using to protest his eviction.
Police in Cincinnati arrested at least 13 people, including two journalists, after demonstrators protesting the immigration detention of a former hospital chaplain blocked a two-lane bridge carrying traffic over the Ohio River.
Civil rights activist and Georgia Congressman John Lewis was known for saying he got into "good trouble" by using peaceful, non-violent action to challenge injustice. Now, in 1,600 cities and towns across the country, protesters are planning to make similar "good trouble" on July 17, the fifth anniversary of Lewis' death.