California has recently become a key site for protests against the Trump administration's immigration policies, particularly with military presence in Los Angeles. On June 14, thousands participated in the No Kings! protests, coinciding with a significant Army parade in Washington, DC. A federal judge ruled against Trump's control of the California National Guard, but an emergency stay allowed military presence to continue. Amid these events, Whittier emerged as a center of unprecedented protest, reflecting neighborhood unity and a movement unheard of in decades.
California has become the frontline for organizing against the Trump administration's sweeping immigration crackdown, with the deployment of troops to mostly peaceful protests across Los Angeles.
Whittier's protest told a different story: one of civic reawakening, cross-neighborhood solidarity and a multilingual defiance in a place that hadn't seen this kind of movement in decades.
The day before, a federal judge ruled that President Trump's takeover of the California National Guard was unconstitutional and ordered control returned to Governor Gavin Newsom.
Whittier, one of Los Angeles County's first suburbs, is better known as the Quaker-founded hometown of President Richard Nixon than a site for organized protest.
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