A antheral faces members of information forces extracurricular the Edward R. Roybal Federal gathering aft days of protests against national migration sweeps and the deployment of the California National Guard and U.S. Marines, successful downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 10, 2025.
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President Donald Trump's medication is ordering an further 2,000 members of the California Army National Guard to the Los Angeles country nether federal command, the Pentagon announced precocious Tuesday.
The deployment of further soldiers was ordered contempt the information that demonstrations against national migration enforcement raids crossed the metropolis person mostly dissipated.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told CNBC connected Wednesday that determination had not been immoderate arrests related to protests successful the metropolis since Saturday night.
Mayor Karen Bass lifted the city's nighttime curfew Tuesday.
"The curfew, coupled with ongoing transgression prevention efforts, person been mostly palmy successful protecting stores, restaurants, businesses and residential communities from atrocious actors who bash not attraction astir the migrant community," Bass said successful a news release Tuesday.
The latest summation brings the full fig of troops presently deployed to the LA country to 4,800. Of these, 700 are U.S. Marines and 4,100 are California Army National Guard.
The troops volition "support the extortion of national functions, personnel, and spot successful the greater Los Angeles area," U.S. Northern Command said successful statement.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the actions of national troops deployed to LA astatine a Senate proceeding Wednesday successful Washington.
Hegseth said the Marines and National Guard troops deployed to LA person "conducted themselves with the utmost of professionalism, defending our national agents," during a proceeding earlier the Armed Services Committee.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee proceeding connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C., U.S., June 18, 2025.
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Asked whether helium would travel a tribunal bid that said the deployment of troops to U.S. cities was illegal, Hegseth replied: "I don't judge territory courts should beryllium determining nationalist information policy."
"If the Supreme Court rules connected a topic, we volition abide by that," helium said aboriginal successful the hearing.
He besides defended the administration's activation of troops to LA, saying that Trump "had each the authorities, and the Defense Department happily supported defending our ICE agents successful the behaviour of their job."
He did not reply erstwhile asked galore times by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., whether helium would support the determination to deploy troops to further U.S. cities.
"It's a implicit hypothetical lacking immoderate discourse astatine all," helium said to Warren.
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Trump's archetypal bid deploying National Guard troops to LA, connected June 7, drew crisp backlash from California Gov. Gavin Newsom and different authorities Democratic leaders, who did not petition the troops, which is simply a measurement that usually precedes the national deployment of forces.
The deployments person besides triggered a conflict successful the courts betwixt California and the Trump White House. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday astir the legality of the national government's determination and appeared inclined to broadside with Trump successful the ongoing feud, POLITICO reported.
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