National Guard, Los Angeles and Donald Trump
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Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to quell protests against L.A.-area immigration raids. Defense chief Pete Hegseth also said Marines are on “high alert.”
Large-scale protests Saturday across Los Angeles in response to dozens of arrests Friday in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation prompted a threat from President Trump for a federal response to those protests.
Democrats in Congress and some military and law enforcement officials expressed concern about the plan, which Defense Department officials have not yet approved.