Hello and welcome to the panel discussion of World Today, I'm Ding Hen in Beijing.
In the United States,
the conflict between California and the Trump administration over immigration appears to be further intensifying.
Federal immigration officials are carrying out enforcement activities in California,
especially the Los Angeles area,
as part of President Donald Trump's mass deportation policy.
The raids have been sharply criticized by local officials,
who say everything in their daily life is being affected by the activities targeting immigrant families.
At the center of the clash is the federal government's decision to order the deployment of National Guard members and Marines to LA after days of protests driven by anger over the raids.
So what can we tell from this clash regarding the wider social and political divisions in the United States?
This question and much more in this edition of the program.
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So joining us now on the line are Joseph Sierra Cusa,
Professor of Global Futures with Curtin University and Andy Malk,
Senior Research Fellow with the Center for China and Globalization.
So thank you very much for joining us today, gentlemen.
Andy, to start with you, first of all,
is the U.S. federal government unleashing a decades in the making immigration war in America?