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Speaker 1: Already and this is the Daily This is the Dahlias.

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Speaker 1: Oh now it makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Os. It's Thursday,

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Speaker 2: the twelfth of June. I'm Zara Seidler, I'm Emma Gillespie.

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Speaker 2: Protests on the streets of La have entered another day

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Speaker 2: after the city's mayor announced a curfew and state of

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Speaker 2: emergency yesterday. These protests began last Friday after the country's

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Speaker 2: immigration enforcement body conducted a series of widespread raids. Since then,

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Speaker 2: protesters have been gathering across the city to call for

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Speaker 2: an end to the raids. In response to these protests,

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Speaker 2: US President Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard and Marines,

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Speaker 2: a decision that has been hotly contested by the state's governor.

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Speaker 2: In today's podcast, we'll explain everything you need to know

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Speaker 2: about how the situation got to this point and the

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Speaker 2: latest for those in La.

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Speaker 3: Zara. So many of us had a long weekend. This

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Speaker 3: where does it all begin?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really good point, and because if you've

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Speaker 2: seen the escalation and you don't know the source, it

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Speaker 2: Friday last week when Immigration and Customs Enforcement they're called ICE,

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Speaker 2: rest of the podcast, they conducted a series of widespread

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Speaker 2: And so I say that just to set the scene

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Speaker 3: Okay, so the kind of protest response that we've seen

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Speaker 2: So the next big part of this story, And it's

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Speaker 1: after this. So a lot going on there.

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Speaker 3: As you've described, the National Guard kind of historically has

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