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Times News June 9, 2025
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The California governor, Gavin Newsom, has said the state will sue the president for deploying about 300 guardsmen over protests against ICE immigration raids. READ MORE: https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/la-protests-live-latest-news-9958x33xz The protests in Los Angeles, an overwhelmingly Democratic-voting city in a blue state, are perhaps the most volatile expression of opposition to Trump in his second term so far. But how popular is his administration in the country at large? According to an aggregation of polls by The Times data team, Trump’s approval rating sits at 45 per cent, marginally higher compared with his first term but about 10 percentage points below that of Joe Biden in the equivalent period of his presidency. Some 52 per cent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s performance in office. On the issue of immigration, which has driven the LA protests, a majority of Americans support his programme to deport immigrants illegally in the US, according to a YouGov poll for CBS taken before the protests. Some 54 per cent of respondents approved of the policy, against 46 per cent opposed. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/ #livestream #losangeles #la #protest

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