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(NewsNation) — Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Tuesday the Trump medication volition not beryllium deterred by protests and "will treble down" connected immigration enforcement operations, including those that person sparked unrest successful Los Angeles.
"We volition not beryllium deterred. We volition not beryllium intimidated by these convulsive rioters, and we volition support going," McLaughlin said connected NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.”
She defended the deployment of Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles, saying they are indispensable to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, who she says are facing accrued attacks.
McLaughlin said ICE operations successful the past 72 hours person resulted successful arrests of pack members, a kid rapist, murderers and convicted felons. She criticized Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for calling connected the national authorities to halt the raids, saying Bass is doing a "disservice to citizens" and immigrants alike.
The protests successful Los Angeles began Friday aft ICE raids targeted migrant workers astatine locations including Home Depot and a covering store. Approximately 1,000 protesters surrounded ICE officers astatine a national building, with immoderate throwing rocks and burning American flags portion hoisting overseas flags, according to McLaughlin.
President Donald Trump said Los Angeles "was nether siege" and that his medication "will not let the metropolis to beryllium invaded and conquered by a overseas enemy." McLaughlin said Trump showed "moral courage" successful deploying further instrumentality enforcement resources.
The LA constabulary main said his section received nary ceremonial notification astir the subject deployment and that it has created logistical challenges. However, McLaughlin said it took LAPD 2 hours to respond erstwhile ICE officers were allegedly nether onslaught Friday.
Similar protests person dispersed to Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta and San Francisco. McLaughlin blamed politicians she said compared ICE officers to Nazis, saying this gives "violent rioters a escaped pass" to onslaught national agents.
Reports suggest DHS officials demanded ICE apprehension 3,000 radical daily, triple erstwhile numbers. McLaughlin said the medication is delivering connected Trump's run committedness of wide deportations, claiming astir 75% of those arrested person anterior convictions.
