Five years after the national protests following the death of George Floyd, the Trump administration is wielding the lessons of that summer of unrest to justify a sweeping crackdown on anti-immigration raids and protests now roiling major cities.
While Democratic city officials in Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco push back against federal intervention, the Justice Department is rapidly filing federal charges and escalating prosecutions with support from the National Guard and Marines.
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