Marine’s meeting in Los Angeles – this is her job

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Lerato Khumalo

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Marine’s meeting in Los Angeles – this is her job

Updated on June 13th, 2025 – 11:01 p.m.Reading time: 10 min.

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Marines soldiers before a helicopter flight (archive picture): The special unit is used in Los Angeles. (Source: Imago/Derek French/SOPA Images/Imago)

The special unit of Marines occurs in Los Angeles. It could become rainy for the military parade in the capital. All information in the US news blog.

The Marines are used in Los Angeles to protect a federal building. The special unit would arrive at the Wilshire high-rise in the next few hours, the head of military operations, Major General Scott Sherman, said on Friday. In view of the recent protests against the approach of the immigration authority in the metropolis, US President Donald Trump had approved the sending of 4000 soldiers from the National Guard and 700 Marines. So far, 200 Marines have come to the city, said Sherman. The troops are authorized to capture people who pose a threat to federal personnel or federal property. However, only until the police arrest them.

The military parade in Washington threatens to end in the rain. According to the US weather service, the probability of rain for June 14 is 50 percent. Good pictures of the event for Trump and his external presentation would not be expected.

The president reacted calmly to the forecasts. Soldiers are “lived anyway” bad weather. Trump: “I hope the weather is okay. And if not? No matter: rain brings happiness.”

Numerous demonstrations against President Donald Trump are planned in the United States on Saturday. The protests are to be held in around a hundred cities under the motto “No Kings” – in German: no kings.

In the past few days there had been protests against the hard approach against irregular immigrants arranged by Trump, in which violent riots had occurred.

In other cities, including Las Vegas, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Atlanta and Boston, there have been demonstrations against the immigration policy of the Trump government in the past few days. Trump responded, among other things, with the sending of the National Guard and by soldiers from Marinininfanterie to Los Angeles.

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For the time being, the US government may keep control of the national guard in California. On the late Thursday evening (local time), an appellate court blocked a order of the district court in San Francisco, which was only a few hours old, against which the government of US President Donald Trump had objected.

California’s governor Gavin Newsom had sharply criticized the sending of thousands of soldiers from the National Guard and the planned use of marine fancists at the behest of Trump in Los Angeles. After the decision of the district court in San Francisco, he spoke of a big day for democracy. At first, he did not comment on the decision of the Court of Appeal.