US President Donald Trump has warned Americans that ICE raids seen in California are ‘the first of many’, defending National Guard and Marine mobilisation, as a Federal court denies an emergency block request. Protests and riots have broken out across large parts of Los Angeles and surrounding areas after Mr Trump ordered ICE raids to remove illegal immigrants from the United States and mobilised 2100 National Guard troops and around 700 marines in response to protests. Mr Trump on Tuesday (local time) said he had called California Governor Gavin Newsom to tell him “you gotta do a better job”. “He is causing a lot of death, a lot of potential death. “If we didn’t send the national guard... you would have... Los Angeles would be burning right now. “You gotta remember we have the Olympics coming. “We have people they look in your face, they spit right in your face, they are animals. “They are paid insurrectionists “We ended it and we have in custody some very bad people. Mr Trump warned Americans they should expect to see more large scale ICE operations across the United States. “We’re moving murderers out of our country who were put here by Biden “We’re gonna get them out. We’re getting them out. “We don’t want them. They come from jails, they come from mental institutions. “We’re not going to let them stay. “This is the first of perhaps of many. “I can inform the rest of the country, that when they do it, if they do it, they will be met with equal or greater force. We did a great job.” Governor Newsom took aim at Mr Trump, saying he was “behaving like a tyrant, not a President.” “By turning the military against American citizens, he is threatening the very core of our democracy,” he wrote on X. “I’m asking the court to immediately block these unlawful actions.” Governor Newsom had filed an emergency motion with a Federal judge, asking them to immediately block the “ongoing and unnecessary militarisation of Los Angeles”. However, hours after lodging the emergency block request, a Federal judge denied the restraining order. A hearing has instead been set. Senior US District Judge Charles R. Breyer asked both the State of California and the Trump Administration to submit more detail before he hears the case on Thursday. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called for demonstrations to continue but pleaded for vandalism and violence to be stopped. Marines are not yet deployed, instead, are being held outside the city awaiting orders. Protests have spilled out of California across the US, with Americans mobilising in places like New York and Texas. More to come...