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Here’s where things stand on Monday 9 June 2025:
- California is suing the Trump administration over its deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles during protests over immigration raids, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.
- Police in Los Angeles have called on immigration protesters to clear the city’s downtown, a day after United States President Donald Trump deployed the US National Guard in a move that local officials say has escalated unrest.
- At least 60 people have been arrested in San Francisco during protests against immigration raids, and other countries, including China, are warning citizens in the city to boost their personal security during the unrest.
- Trump’s near-blanket travel ban on 12 countries has gone into effect despite charges that the policy is discriminatory.
Pentagon to deploy around 700 Marines to Los Angeles: Official tells Reuters
The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, has told the news agency a Marine battalion would be sent to the city.
However, the official maintained that for now, Trump was not invoking the Insurrection Act, which would suspend another law that prohibits federal forces from taking part in domestic law enforcement.
The official said the Marines would only be acting in a support capacity, adding that the situation was fluid and could change. CNN also reported the deployment, but put the number of Marines at about 500.
Trump had previously deployed Marines to the US border to provide support and logistics to ICE agents.
Waymo suspends operations in downtown Los Angeles
The robotaxi company Waymo has suspended service in downtown Los Angeles, after several of its self-driving cars were set ablaze during protests over the weekend.
Waymo confirmed to The Associated Press that five of its robotaxis were impacted and removed from downtown Los Angeles. The company added that it would not be operating in this area of the city for the time being, citing guidance from local law enforcement.
Waymo’s services in other parts of Los Angeles county remain available, it said. The self-driving taxis were first introduced in the city last year.
Trump offers little news on trade talks with China
Asked if he has any new information to share about US talks with China over trade, the US president mostly stayed mum.
“If we don’t open up China, maybe we won’t do anything,” Trump said at the White House. “But we want to open up China.”
Study finds that looser US gun restrictions linked to more child shooting deaths
A paper published in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics has found that US states that loosened existing gun regulations after a court ruling saw thousands of additional childhood deaths from firearms.
“Mortality from car accidents has fallen dramatically, but at the same time, firearm mortality rose and replaced car accidents as the leading cause of death in children over the age of one,” said Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and lead author of the paper. That trend is unique among peer nations.
The study, based on an excess mortality analysis, found more than 7,400 excess pediatric firearms deaths in states that loosened gun laws.
Trump says Marines could be sent to Los Angeles
Despite stating that the situation in Los Angeles is “heading in the right direction”, the US president says that the Marines could still be deployed to the southern California city.
“We’ll see what happens,” Trump said when asked if the Marines could still be sent in.
Hundreds take part in protests in Boston
Rallies in solidarity with Los Angeles and against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown are being held across the country with hundreds of people gathering near City Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, to protest against the detention of California union leader David Huerta.
“An immigrant doesn’t stand between an American worker and a good job – a billionaire does,” said Chrissy Lynch, Massachusetts president of the national union American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
People held signs reading, “Come for one, come for all,” “Free David, free them all” and “Massachusetts stands with our neighbors in Los Angeles.”
Trump returns to claims about California wildfires
Reprising a familiar line of attack against California and the state’s political leadership, Trump has said that the state’s response to a series of wildfires in Los Angeles earlier this year demonstrates a problem with incompetence.
During those fires, Trump made a series of false or misleading claims about the blazes, accusing the state of denying the city adequate water to combat them.
“You have a governor who let the city burn down, he didn’t want water to be sent down to him. And I sent billions of gallons of water,” said Trump.
Social justice advocate Father Greg Boyle tells undocumented community: ‘We will not abandon you’
Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest well-known for his social justice work in the Los Angeles area, including involvement in the movement to offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants and refugees fleeing violence in Central America during the 1980s, has offered his support to the undocumented community, who he says is living with “unnecessary” fear.
“To our undocumented sisters and brothers who live in fear at the moment, in a way that is completely unnecessary, to them we say we will not abandon you ever,” Boyle said in remarks posted by Homeboy Industries, a group he founded that offers services and support to former gang members seeking to change their lives.
“We stand with anybody who is demonised or left out or excluded or seen as disposable. We stand with them. We will never abandon you ever,” he added.
Trump says he could send more national guard soldiers to California if needed
The US president says he stands by his decision to send the national guard to Los Angeles over the objections of state authorities, adding that he could send more soldiers to the city.
“If I didn’t get involved and we didn’t bring the guard in – and we would bring more in if we needed it because we have to make sure there’s going to be law and order – you had a disaster happening,” Trump said.
Trump officials call protesters ‘insurrectionists’. What could that mean?
Both Trump and Vice President JD Vance have called protesters in Los Angeles “insurrectionists”, with White House adviser Stephen Miller also calling the protests an “insurrection”.
Critics have said there is no evidence that protesters opposing Trump’s immigration policies are seeking the wider overthrow of the US government. Opponents have also said Trump’s use of the term is hypocritical, pointing to Trump supporters storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 in an effort to overturn his election loss.
But the Trump administration’s use of the term may be intentional. So far, Trump has used a more limited federal authority to deploy National Guard troops, which California’s governor is challenging as “unlawful”.
Despite speculation, Trump has not yet invoked a more wide-ranging law, the Insurrection Act of 1807, which would suspend another law that prohibits federal authorities from conducting civilian law enforcement.
A president can invoke the Insurrection Act after determining that “unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion” against the federal government make it “impracticable to enforce” US law “by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings”.
The Insurrection Act is broadly written and does not define the terms “insurrection” or “rebellion”.
US stocks drift higher amid latest trade talks with China
The S&P 500 has risen 0.3 percent in afternoon trading, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 100 points, or 0.2 percent, and the Nasdaq Composite Index rising 0.4 percent as of 2:05pm local (18:05 GMT).
The upward drift comes as high-level delegations from the United States and China were meeting in London, in the latest effort to avert a global economy roiling trade war.
The economic giants last month agreed to cool the temperature, temporarily rolling back newly imposed tariffs, although both countries have traded barbs since.
Today’s meeting comes after US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a phone call last week.
Press freedom group says at least four journalists injured at protests
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says at least four reporters have been injured when they were hit by nonlethal rounds as they covered the protests in Los Angeles.
It said officers shot Ryanne Mena, a crime reporter with the Los Angeles Daily News, and freelance reporter Sean Beckner-Carmitchel with pepper balls and tear-gassed them on Friday and Saturday.
Nick Stern, a British freelance photojournalist based in Los Angeles, had emergency surgery after a 7.5cm (3-inch) plastic bullet struck his leg on Sunday. Stern said he was wearing his press credentials and carrying a camera when he was struck.
Lauren Tomasi, a reporter for Australia’s 9News, was shot in the leg with a rubber bullet as she reported live on Sunday.
CPJ said Adam Rose, secretary of the Los Angeles Press Club, has also documented more than 20 incidents of obstruction and attacks against journalists since the protests kicked off on Friday.
“We are greatly concerned by the reports of law enforcement officers’ shooting non-lethal rounds at reporters covering protests in Los Angeles. Any attempt to discourage or silence media coverage by intimidating or injuring journalists should not be tolerated,” CPJ US, Canada and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen said in a statement. “It is incumbent upon authorities to respect the media’s role of documenting issues of public interest.”
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Here are the latest events:
- US President Donald Trump has hailed his decision to deploy National Guard troops to California, while suggesting he would support authorities arresting California’s Governor Gavin Newsom if he interferes with immigration enforcement.
- This came shortly after Newsom announced he was suing the Trump administration, claiming the president had overstepped his authority in deploying the forces.
- Protesters were again gathering in Los Angeles and cities across the country to protest Trump’s immigration policies, including a travel ban on 12 countries that went into effect today.
- A Trump official said rare earth metals would be a priority in high-level trade talks with China in London today.
About 1,000 National Guard members on the ground in Los Angeles: Report
US officials have told The Associated Press that there are currently about 1,000 National Guard members in the city under federal orders, and more will be flowing in all day.
The officials said that they believe that the full 2,000 that the president has ordered will be on the ground there by the end of the day.
The increase in members, who numbered about 300 yesterday, indicates the Trump administration is not backing away from the deployment despite pressure from state officials.
Despite hype, National Guard have played little role thus far.
When Donald Trump said the city of Los Angeles would have been “obliterated” without the National Guard being here, that’s utterly preposterous, because the National Guard actually did nothing during those protests yesterday.
They just stood around in front of the federal building where the ICE detainees were being held. They didn’t participate at all in any crowd control.
That was all down to the local law enforcement, the Los Angeles Police Department, the California Highway Patrol, and others. The Guard had nothing to do with that whatsoever.
California sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment
In a statement, California Attorney General Rob Bonta confirmed the state had filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
In a statement, he said Trump is “trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for his own political ends”.
“Federalising the California National Guard is an abuse of the President’s authority under the law – and not one we take lightly,” Bonta said. “We’re asking a court to put a stop to the unlawful, unprecedented order.”
California sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment
In a statement, California Attorney General Rob Bonta confirmed the state had filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
In a statement, he said Trump is “trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for his own political ends”.
“Federalising the California National Guard is an abuse of the President’s authority under the law – and not one we take lightly,” Bonta said. “We’re asking a court to put a stop to the unlawful, unprecedented order.”
‘Simply a nightmare’: LA Indigenous leader condemns ICE raids
Indigenous community leader Perla Rios has spoken at a news conference with family members of workers arrested during the ICE raids in Los Angeles that have sparked widespread protest.
Standing in front of Ambiance Apparel, one of the businesses targeted in the raids, Rios called for legal representation and due process for those detained.
“What our families are experiencing is simply a nightmare,” Rios said.
Immigrant rights advocates have accused the Trump administration of pursuing unrealistic immigration arrest targets, which increase pressure on agents to target longtime undocumented residents with deep community ties.
Service employees union holds DC rally in support of LA union members
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) says its members have staged a rally in Washington, DC, in solidarity with their counterparts in Los Angeles, where the Trump administration has detained the union’s California branch president.
“We are rallying in solidarity with our union brother and SEIU California President David Huerta,” the group said in a social media post.
“From Massachusetts to California, we call for his immediate release and for an end to ICE raids that are tearing our communities apart.”
The US Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles said Huerta has been charged with conspiracy to impede an officer during immigration enforcement operations.
Democratic Senate leader says Trump using protests as a ‘diversion’
Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader in the US Senate, has said that Trump is using events in Los Angeles to divert attention from his policy agenda.
“Donald Trump — in the midst of a war with Elon Musk and his ugly tax bill that would rip healthcare from 17 million people — is in desperate need of a diversion. His order to deploy the National Guard in California is unnecessary, inflammatory, and provocative,” said Schumer.
“Trump should immediately revoke his command to use the National Guard, and leave the law enforcement to the governor and the mayor, who are more than capable of handling the situation,” he said. “Americans do not need or deserve this unnecessary and provocative chaos.”
Latinas for Trump founder calls president’s actions ‘unacceptable and inhumane’
Condemnation of the Trump administration’s deportation drive has come from an unlikely place: the founder of a group that rallied Latino voters to support Trump.
Over the weekend, Ileana Garcia, a Florida state senator who founded Latinas for Trump, called Trump’s actions “unacceptable and inhumane”.
“I understand the importance of deporting criminal aliens, but what we are witnessing are arbitrary measures to hunt down people who are complying with their immigration hearings – in many cases, with credible fear of persecution claims – all driven by a Miller-like desire to satisfy a self-fabricated deportation goal,” she said.
Garcia referred to Stephen Miller, the key architect of Trump’s deportation drive.
Despite largely turning off Latino voters during his 2016 campaign, Trump made major inroads in the community during the 2024 election season. He gained 42 percent of the community’s vote, setting a record for a Republican candidate, according to the Americas Society/Council of the Americas.
National Guard deployment distraction from ‘authoritarian power grab’: Congresswoman
US Representative Pramila Jayapal has spoken at a rally in front of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.
She was joined by members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), whose California leader, David Huerta, was arrested on Friday while protesting ICE immigration raids in Los Angeles.
She called Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops, despite opposition from California’s governor, an intentional distraction from Trump’s “authoritarian power grab on the backs of working people”.
“Today we are here to say free David Huerta. We are here to say free the immigrants that have been arrested. We are here to say end the ICE raids,” she said.
“We are here to say stand up for our protected constitutional rights to free speech, to a democracy that works for all of us,” she said.
Farm workers union condemns ‘reckless deployment’ of National Guard
The United Farm Workers (UFW) union, a powerful organisation that has long been involved in issues of economic and immigrant justice in California, has issued a statement condemning the Trump administration’s crackdown in California.
“The Trump admin’s reckless deployment of the National Guard against California — where immigrant workers are the lifeblood of our economy and community — is a real and violent attack on all Californians,” the group said.
“Farm workers, garment workers, day laborers, or union leaders are not the people undermining public safety. The threat to public safety is the militarized forces being deployed against us.”
State Department says committed to ‘protecting our nation’
As a controversial ban on entry into the US by people from several countries takes effect, the State Department has said the move is necessary to protect the country.
“The Department of State is committed to protecting our nation and its citizens by upholding the highest standards of national security and public safety through our visa process,” the department said in a social media post.
UN warns against ‘further militarisation’ of protest crackdown
The United Nations has responded to the protests and resulting crackdown in Los Angeles.
Spokesman Farhan Haq called on state, local and federal authorities to work together rather than further escalate the unrest.
“We do not want to see any further militarisation of this situation, and we encourage the parties at the local, state and federal levels to work to do that,” Haq said.
Republican senator reiterates opposition to Trump spending package
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has said he will continue to oppose Trump’s massive spending bill, stating that it would ramp up government debt.
Trump has previously chastised Paul and other Republicans opposed to the bill, calling on them to lend their support to what is a major legislative priority for the administration.
“Adding $4 trillion to the national debt is a nonstarter for me,” Paul said in a social media post. “That’s not fiscally conservative. At all.”
Trump suggests he would support arrest of California’s governor
Trump has weighed in on border czar Tom Homan’s Saturday threat, in which Homan said he was prepared to arrest anyone who obstructs immigration enforcement efforts in the state, including Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
Newsom responded during an NBC News interview by challenging Homan to “just get it over with” and move ahead with the arrest.
Asked on Monday about Newsom daring Homan to arrest him, US President Donald Trump replied: “I would”.
Why is the national guard front and centre in debate over LA clashes?
Trump has taken the rare step of mobilising the national guard without the consent of state authorities, an act no US president has taken since 1965, and one that critics say is an effort to escalate tensions.
What is the national guard, and how does it fit into the events unfolding in Los Angeles? You can read our explainer here.
Protests in LA, NYC over Trump travel ban
Trump’s latest travel ban blocks nearly all visa applications for citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Critics have called it racist and unnecessary.
Speaking at a protest in New York City today, Murad Awawdeh, president of the New York Immigration Coalition, said the policy was “a continuation of the Muslim and travel ban under the first Trump administration, which separated families and harmed our communities”.
The policy, he said, is creating “an immense amount of fear”.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, meanwhile, planned to hold protests at the international airport in Los Angeles.
Local elected officials warn protesters not to give in to Trump ‘provocations’
Today is a work day, unlike yesterday, so people have to go to their jobs, and that makes it less likely that there will be as many people available to protest. That’s just a common-sense observation.
But certainly there will be people who will want to continue to protest, and there is a large peaceful gathering being set up today by labour unions and other organisations in the centre of town.
They hope that a maximum number of people will turn out to make their presence known and make their voices heard.
California’s governor, Los Angeles’s mayor, other elected officials, union officials, and leaders in the immigrant advocacy community are asking for people to be peaceful and not to let this “provocation”, as they see it by the Trump administration, devolve into more violence.
US-China talks seem likely to continue
Today’s talks have involved US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, in conversation with several Chinese officials, including Vice Premier He Lifeng.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen a bit of a change in the temperature between these two countries. There are concerns from the US side about access to certain rare earths, the critical minerals that are used in semiconductors and electric vehicles.
The Chinese concern is that travel from the US to China of certain products, particularly around software and some parts, is being slowed down by export restrictions on the US side.
An effort to try to lift some of those restrictions in particular will be something they’ll be focused on in those conversations.
What’s not clear is whether these talks will continue beyond today, but it looks likely that they will.