06/08/2025

National Guard Arrives in L.A. amid ICE Protests

The deployment, condemned by Gov. Newsom, comes after raids triggered protests

Service members began to arrive in Los Angeles early Sunday, part of the 2,000 California National Guard troops that President Donald Trump has ordered to be deployed to the city to intervene in protests against his administration’s immigration sweeps.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) condemned the move, which a military legal expert said was escalatory because the state did not request assistance but notably did not involve the president invoking the Insurrection Act, which would allow service members under federal orders to perform law enforcement.

Overnight, the greater Los Angeles area remained relatively calm compared to protests that began Friday after the immigration sweeps in L.A. County, part of what the president has said would amount to the largest-scale deportation operation in the country’s history.

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