Marines, The Pentagon and Los Angeles
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Karen Bass, Los Angeles and National Guard
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L OS ANGELES — In the era of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, even the simple act of buying pan dulce can set nerves on edge. So it was when Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stopped by an East LA bakery one morning only to find the doors shut and the people inside conspicuously ignoring her knocks on the window.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seven hundred Marines sent to Los Angeles will leave the city, the Pentagon said Monday. The Marines were sent to the city in June alongside 4,000 National Guard soldiers in response to protests over the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration raids around the city.
The massive Republican tax bill signed by Trump is expected to soon claw $750 million per year from the L.A. County Department of Health Services, which oversees four public hospitals and roughly two dozen clinics.
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Boing Boing on MSNTrump's Los Angeles military deployment bored, bitter and defecating in the humveesBoth The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times report morale problems for Trump's unneeded occupying force. "They gave Disneyland tickets to the people who worked in the wildfires," one soldier said.