The article discusses the recent increase in workplace raids conducted by ICE due to frustrations within the Trump administration about the deportation process. Following a series of raids targeting day laborers in Los Angeles, protests erupted, resulting in significant confrontations between demonstrators and federal agents. The article highlights legal ramifications related to the president’s actions involving the National Guard, indicating both the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act and how the administration navigated these laws during the escalated enforcement.
In recent days, we have seen an escalation and militarization of workplace raids as the Trump administration has grown frustrated at the pace of deportations.
Protests against these military style raids have been met with overwhelming force and have turned Los Angeles into a war zone.
Under an 1878 law, the Posse Comitatus Act, it is illegal to use federal troops on domestic soil for policing purposes.
The president did not invoke the Insurrection Act in Los Angeles, but instead invoked Section 12406 of Title 10 of the U.S. Code to call National Guard units.
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