{"id":2919,"date":"2025-06-11T04:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/06\/progressive-caucus-statement-on-trumps-deployment-of-national-guard-to-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T04:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:03:17","slug":"progressive-caucus-statement-on-trumps-deployment-of-national-guard-to-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2919","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Caucus Statement on Trump\u2019s Deployment of National Guard to Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Progressive Caucus <strong>Chair Greg Casar (TX-35)<\/strong> issued the following statement on Trump\u2019s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to immigration protests:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump politicizing and weaponizing the National Guard makes us all less safe and less free. His threat to deploy the Marines into the streets of an American city is an illegal and authoritarian escalation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s threats have nothing to do with keeping people safe\u2014it\u2019s about political theater. He\u2019s scapegoating immigrants to distract from the GOP\u2019s real agenda: ripping health care away from millions to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-rich.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not be intimidated. Progressives are standing up to this administration, including by conducting lawful oversight at ICE detention centers in Los Angeles and across the country. We stand with Angelenos, and we stand with immigrant families everywhere. The President must return command of the National Guard to Governor Newsom.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar (TX-35) issued the following statement on Trump\u2019s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to immigration protests: \u201cTrump politicizing and weaponizing the National Guard makes us all less safe and less free. His threat to deploy the Marines into the streets of an American city is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}