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Trump’s Dangerous Decision to Suppress Anti-ICE Protests With Troops

Trump’s Dangerous Decision to Suppress Anti-ICE Protests With Troops

The National Guard’s response to civilian protests has a deadly history made infamous by the Kent State massacre.

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To suppress protests against his deportation agenda, President Donald Trump took an extraordinary action on Saturday by calling up 2,000 National Guard troops to tamp down demonstrations in California. In doing so, he exercised rarely used federal powers, bypassed the authority of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, and set the stage for violent confrontation.

Newsom, a Democrat, said the soldiers were unneeded and would only “escalate tensions.”

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