Trump orders Protection Division to ship an extra 2,000 Nationwide Guard troops to LA anti-ICE riots

The Trump administration introduced it’ll be deploying an extra 2,000 Nationwide Guard troops to Los Angeles as 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 huge crowds of protesters in downtown LA.

With the brand new group, greater than 4,000 Guard troops could 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 stated he’s working to “surge over 800 further state and native regulation enforcement officers to make sure the security of our LA communities,” he wrote on X.

The extra 2,000 Nationwide Guard troops doubtless received’t start motion in the direction of California for one more day or two because the order is finalized, one official instructed the Related Press.

As of Sunday, round 2,000 protesters had been estimated to be taking part within the demonstrations, which continued on Monday evening. No less than 56 folks had been arrested over the weekend.

Newsom, who has already filed a lawsuit towards Trump for deploying the Nationwide Guard within the first place, stated that bringing in one other batch wouldn’t solely endanger the general public but additionally scorn the troopers.

“The primary 2,000? Given no meals or water. Solely approx. 300 are deployed — the remaining are sitting, unused, in federal buildings with out orders. This isn’t about public security. It’s about stroking a harmful President’s ego,” Newsom wrote on X.

“That 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 “dysfunction and chaos” within the metropolis by deploying so many troopers.

“I really feel like we’re a part of an experiment that we didn’t ask to be part of,” Bass stated.

She later pleaded for the federal authorities to “cease the raids.”

“I hope that we are going to be heard as a result of our metropolis is making an attempt to maneuver ahead, and I imagine the federal authorities ought to be supportive,” Bass stated.

Trump officers slammed each Bass and Newsom for permitting the protests to show into violent and harmful riots.

“Gavin Newsom has executed completely nothing, Mayor Bass has executed completely nothing,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem instructed 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 referred to 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.