Protests that arose in Los Angeles Importing raids of the Immigration and Inscited the American President Donald Trump To mobilize the troops of the National Guard and the Marines, began to spread across the country, with more expected weekend.
From Seattle to Austin and Washington, DC, the walkers chanted slogans, transported panels against the immigration and customs application agency and scolded traffic through downtown avenues and external federal offices. While many were peaceful, some led to clashes with the police, the police, the agents made arrests and used chemical irritants to disperse the crowds.
Activists provide more and even more important demonstrations in the coming days, with so -called “no kings” events across the country on Saturday to coincide with the Trump’s planned military parade by Washington.
The Trump administration said that it would continue its raid and deportation program despite the demonstrations. “Ice will continue to enforce the law,” said the Secretary of Internal Security, Kristi Noem on social networks on Tuesday.
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth suggested on Tuesday that the use of troops in the United States will continue to develop.
“I think we are entering another phase, especially under President Trump by focusing on the homeland, where the National Guard and reserves become an essential element in the way we assure this homeland,” he told Capitol Hill.
A look at the protests that grow across the country:
The immigration authorities made a descent at least one Omaha meat production plant on Tuesday morning, inspiring a few small protests, but the details of the number of workers were affected immediately.
Omaha police and Douglas county sheriff said immigration officials have warned them of their plans, and their services have helped block traffic in the neighborhood where many food production factories are located while US immigration and customs agents worked.
A small group of people came out to protest against the raids, and some of them even jumped on the bumper before a vehicle to try to stop the officers in one place while others threw rocks on the vehicles of officials as a white bus transporting workers who transported a factory.
Four Austin police officers were injured and the authorities used chemical irritants to disperse a crowd of several hundred demonstrators on Monday evening who moved between the State Capitol and a federal building that houses an ice desk. State representatives had closed the Capitol to the public an hour earlier in anticipation of the demonstration.
Austin police used spray spray balls and the state police used tear gas when the demonstrators started trying to degrade the federal building with aerosol paint. The demonstrators then started throwing rocks, bottles and other objects during a police barricade, said Austin police chief Lisa Davis. Three officers were injured by “very large” rocks and another was injured during an arrest, she said.
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The four injured officers had been treated and released from a hospital on Tuesday.
Austin police arrested eight people and the state police arrested several others. Davis said his department was prepared for the planned protest on Saturday in the city center.
“We support peaceful demonstrations,” said Davis. “When this demonstration becomes violent, when it turns to rocks and bottles…. It will not be tolerated. Arrests will be made. “
A demonstration that attracted hundreds to a rally on a city bridge lasted several hours on Monday evening before the Dallas police declared an “illegal assembly” and warned people to leave or face a possible arrest.
Dallas police initially posted on social networks that the police did not interfere with a “legal and peaceful assembly of people or groups expressing their rights to the first amendment”. But the agents then moved in and the local media reported to see it in the crowd of objects to launch objects while the officers used peppery gas and smoke to clean the area. At least one person has been arrested.
“The peaceful protest is legal,” said the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, a republican, published on X. “But once you have crossed the line, you will be arrested.”
On Tuesday, around 200 demonstrators gathered before the San Francisco immigration court after activists said that several arrests were carried out.
This rally came after demonstrations on Sunday and Monday inflated several thousand demonstrators and saw more than 150 arrests with epidemics of violence which included vandalized buildings and damaged cars, police vehicles and buses. Police said two police officers had suffered injuries that did not put their life in danger.
Most arrests were on Sunday evening.
“Individuals are still free to exercise their rights to the first amendment to San Francisco, but violence, in particular against SFPD officers, will never be tolerated,” published the San Francisco police on social networks.
Police described Monday’s march as “extremely peaceful”, but said that “two small groups have broken and committed vandalism and other criminal acts”. Several people have been arrested, said the police.
On Tuesday, around fifty people gathered before the immigration court in downtown Seattle, singing with drums and holding panels which said “free them all; Abolish ice “and” no to deportations “. The demonstration was initially peaceful, but the demonstrators began to put scooters in front of the building entrances before the police arrived.
Mathieu Chabaud, with students for a democratic society at the University of Washington, said that they were there in solidarity with the Los Angeles demonstrators, “and to show that we are opposed to ice in our community”.
Legal defenders who normally attend the hearings of the Immigration Court as an observers and to provide support for immigrants were not authorized inside the building. The security guards also refused the media. The hearings are normally open to the public.
In Chicago, a small crowd gathered on Tuesday outside the immigration court in the city center and called for the end of the Trump administration immigration and the military presence in California.
“With the militarization of Los Angeles, it is time to go out and let Trump know that it is unacceptable,” said retired Gary Snyderman. “All this is so unconstitutional.”
The group then walked in the streets of the city center by beating and singing: “More deportations!”
In Santa Ana near Los Angeles, armored vehicles blocked the road on Tuesday morning leading to Civic Center, where federal immigration agents and many city and county agencies have their offices.
The workers swept plastic bottles and a broken glass of Monday demonstrations. Tiny brightness of red, black and purple glass lit up the sidewalk. The nearby buildings and the sidewalk were labeled with slogans of profane graffiti against the ice and the name of Trump took place.
A worker rolled paint on graffiti on a wall to block it. The national guard officers carrying fatigue and carrying rifles prevented people from entering the region unless they work there.
Hundreds of people gathered on Monday at the Place of the Boston City Hall to protest against the detention of the Chief of the Union David Huerta on Friday during the immigration raids in Los Angeles.
The demonstrators kept signs by reading “Massachusetts is with our neighbors in Los Angeles” and “Protect our immigrant neighbors” and shouted “Come for one, come for all” and “Free David, release them all”.
Huerta, president of the International Employees of the California Union, was released from the federal guard later on Monday on bail of $ 50,000.
“An immigrant is not held between an American worker and a good job, the fact a billionaire,” said Chrissy Lynch, president of Massachusetts AFL-Cio.
Several unions gathered on Monday in Washington to protest against the raids and come together for the liberation of Huerta, and exceeded the building of the Ministry of Justice.
Among the demonstrators, the American representative Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat in the Washington State.
“Enough of these mass ice raids that sweep innocent,” said Jayapal. “While we see people exercising constitutional rights to peacefully use their voice to denounce this injustice, they are welcomed with tear gas and rubber bullets.”
The writers of the Associated Press Martha Bellisle in Seattle, Leah Willingham in Boston and Amy Taxin in Santa Ana, California, contributed.