Havana, June 10 (Prensa Latina) Anti-Cuban politicians in the United States remain silent in the face of the wave of repression against migrants and journalists in Los Angeles, California, the island’s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, denounced today.
In protests in #LosAngeles, we saw excessive use of force, the use of the #US National Guard, attacks on journalists, and violations of migrants’ rights. But so far, we have seen no condemnation of these actions by anti-Cuban politicians. Their hypocrisy is grave and sickening, the Foreign Minister charged in X.
The protests and the federal response continue to escalate today, with calls for demonstrations in Atlanta, Burlington, and New York under slogans such as “Out with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)” and “Stop the deportations.”
Thousands of people took to the streets to express their opposition to the immigration policies of the Donald Trump administration, which the day before ordered the deployment of 2,000 additional National Guard members and some 700 Pentagon Marines.
Amid the vandalism and the use of force to quell demands for fair treatment of migrants, the president’s rhetoric is directed at the governor of that western state, Gavin Newsom, and the city’s mayor, Karen Bass, whom he calls incompetent.
“The situation in Los Angeles looks very bad. SEND IN THE MILITARY!!!” Trump wrote on his own social media platform, threatening to “deploy military everywhere. We will not let this happen to our Country. We will not let our Country be torn apart.”
For his part, Newsom sued the Republican administration for “deploying a state’s National Guard without consulting the governor of that state is illegal and immoral.”
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