The Trump administration introduced it’ll be deploying an extra 2,000 Nationwide Guard troops to Los Angeles as the town enters its fourth evening of violent anti-ICE riots.
President Trump ordered the Division of Protection on Monday to ship out the extra troops simply two days after his administration despatched out its first spherical to assist management the large crowds of protesters in downtown LA.
With the brand new group, greater than 4,000 Guard troops can be stationed within the California metropolis.
It’s unclear what number of federal, state, and native authorities have been despatched to sort out the protests, however on Monday, Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth introduced that 700 active-duty Marines would even be dispatched.
In the meantime, California Gov. Gavin Newsom additionally mentioned he’s working to “surge over 800 additional state and local law enforcement officers to ensure the safety of our LA communities,” he wrote on X.
The extra 2,000 Nationwide Guard troops seemingly received’t start motion in the direction of California for an additional day or two because the order is finalized, one official advised the Related Press.
As of Sunday, round 2,000 protesters have been estimated to be taking part within the demonstrations, which continued on Monday evening. At the very least 56 folks have been arrested over the weekend.
Newsom, who has already filed a lawsuit towards Trump for deploying the Nationwide Guard within the first place, mentioned that bringing in one other batch wouldn’t solely endanger the general public but additionally scorn the troopers.
“The first 2,000? Given no food or water. Only approx. 300 are deployed — the rest are sitting, unused, in federal buildings without orders. This isn’t about public safety. It’s about stroking a dangerous President’s ego,” Newsom wrote on X.
“This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops.”
LA Mayor Karen Bass echoed Newsom’s sentiments as she accused the Trump administration of purposefully creating “disorder and chaos” within the metropolis by deploying so many troopers.
“I feel like we are part of an experiment that we did not ask to be a part of,” Bass mentioned.
She later pleaded for the federal authorities to “stop the raids.”
“I hope that we will be heard because our city is trying to move forward, and I believe the federal government should be supportive,” Bass mentioned.
Trump officers slammed each Bass and Newsom for permitting the protests to show into violent and damaging riots.
“Gavin Newsom has done absolutely nothing, Mayor Bass has done absolutely nothing,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem advised Fox Information host Sean Hannity Monday.
The final time a sitting president circumvented a governor’s energy to activate the Nationwide Guard was in 1965 when President Lyndon B. Johnson known as on the Alabama Nationwide Guard regardless of the then-governor’s orders to guard civil rights protesters from the police whereas they marched from Selma to Montgomery.
