National Guard authorized to detain ICE attackers, DHS says

National Guardsmen deployed to Los Angeles person the authorization to temporarily detain anti-ICE rioters successful Los Angeles, the Department of Homeland Security says.

President Donald Trump has deployed immoderate 4,000 National Guardsmen to the metropolis arsenic the riots continue, but Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman said connected Wednesday that determination person lone been a tiny fig of cases wherever they person detained civilians.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin says the troops are connected the crushed to supply extortion for ICE agents and different national instrumentality enforcement groups.

"If immoderate rioters onslaught ICE instrumentality enforcement officers, subject unit person the authorization to temporarily detain them until instrumentality enforcement makes the arrest," McLaughlin told Axios successful a statement.

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National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles tin temporarily detain anti-ICE protesters earlier handing them implicit to instrumentality enforcement, the DHS says. (RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sherman told the Associated Press connected Wednesday that astir 500 National Guard troops person been trained truthful acold to assistance agents transportation retired migration operations successful Los Angeles.

Immigration officials person already circulated photos of soldiers from the National Guard providing information for Department of Homeland Security agents.

Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, caput of Task Force 51, which is overseeing the deployment of the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, speaks to reporters Wednesday, June 11, 2025, astatine the Joint Forces Training Base successful Los Alamitos, California. (AP Photo/Amy Taxin)

He told the AP that implicit the past fewer days, National Guard soldiers person temporarily detained anti-ICE protesters, though determination person not been galore arsenic of precocious due to the fact that things person calmed down.

Sherman besides said the soldiers did not enactment successful the arrests oregon instrumentality enforcement activities. Instead, helium added, they fto the agitators spell erstwhile constabulary instrumentality them into custody.

U.S. National Guard soldiers are deployed astir downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, pursuing an migration raid protestation the nighttime before. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a nationalist feud with the Trump administration, accusing the president of having "commandeered" 2,000 of the state’s National Guard members "illegally, for nary reason" without consulting with California’s instrumentality enforcement leaders.

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The Trump administration, meanwhile, said its ICE operations are aiming to get "criminal amerciable migrant killers, rapists, gangbangers, cause dealers, quality traffickers and home abusers disconnected the streets."

Fox News' Greg Wehner contributed to this report.