California-Trump National Guard proceeding
Another 2,000 California National Guard troops are being deployed to the Los Angeles area, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. It comes amid the Trump administration's ongoing migration crackdown successful the region, which has sparked a bid of astatine times contentious protests successful downtown L.A. implicit the past fewer weeks.
U.S. Northern Command said successful a connection that the troops were being activated nether the Title 10 law, which President Trump antecedently invoked erstwhile helium archetypal announced connected June 7 that helium was deploying National Guard troops to L.A. successful effect to the demonstrations.
The soldiers volition "support the extortion of national functions, personnel, and spot successful the greater Los Angeles area," USNORTHCOM said successful a statement.
The determination was astatine the absorption of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, officials said. USNORTHCOM did not elaborate connected what prompted Hegseth to grow the unit count.
The troops volition articulation astir 4,100 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines who are already deployed successful L.A.
Members of the California National Guard basal ticker successful beforehand of the Edward Roybal Federal Building connected the greeting of June 17, 2025, successful Los Angeles, California.
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Ahead of their arrival, the caller batch of soldiers are "completing grooming connected de-escalation, assemblage control, and usage of the lasting rules for the usage of unit successful beforehand of joining the national extortion mission," USNORTHCOM said.
Mr. Trump's initial memo ordering the deployment says the troops are successful L.A. to "temporarily protect" Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arsenic good arsenic different national unit and national property.
Local and authorities officials person heavy criticized Mr. Trump's move, arguing that section instrumentality enforcement were capable to grip the protests, immoderate of which turned violent, and saying the deployment of national troops to metropolis streets has lone served to inflame the concern successful L.A., a metropolis with a ample and divers migrant community.
The downtown protests were successful response to a bid of migration raids passim the L.A. area.
The president's deployment of national troops domestically utilizing Title 10 is present facing a ineligible situation from California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who filed a lawsuit calling the determination a "power grab" and arguing that California National Guard troops were placed nether national power without Newsom's permission.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of San Francisco concisely and temporarily blocked the National Guard deployment past week. However, hours later, an appeals tribunal halted Breyer's ruling.
On Tuesday, a three-judge sheet for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit heard arguments successful the lawsuit implicit whether Mr. Trump exceeded his authorization erstwhile helium invoked Title 10.
Melissa Quinn and Joe Walsh contributed to this report.
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