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2025-06-11 Los Angeles protests: Trump sends Marines – Learning English from the News

The story

Immigration raids in Los Angeles led to protest, some of which have become violent.

In response, President Trump sent National Guard troops, now supported by US Marines to subdue the protests.

This move was opposed by California state governor, Gavin Newsom as well as the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass.

Local authorities in California said that the intervention of National Guard troops and Marines could provoke more violence.

News headlines

Mass arrests in LA as police enforce night-time curfew
BBC News

US marines to deploy to Los Angeles to help quell anti-ICE riots
Fox News

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy’: How the Clash in LA Could Explode
Politico

Key words and phrases

curfew
a restriction on being outside at a particular time

  • The curfew meant that everyone had to be home by 8 o’clock.

quell
stop or calm

  • The police managed to quell the trouble quickly.

a self-fulfilling prophecy
a situation caused by predicting that something will happen

  • She believed she’d fail the exam so she didn’t study, and then she failed. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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