2,000 more National Guard troops being deployed to Los Angeles, Pentagon says

One other 2,000 California Nationwide Guard troops are being deployed to the Los Angeles space, the Protection Division introduced Tuesday. It comes amid the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown within the area, which has sparked a sequence of at occasions contentious protests in downtown L.A. over the previous few weeks.  

U.S. Northern Command stated in an announcement that the troops had been being activated beneath the Title 10 legislation, which President Trump beforehand invoked when he first introduced on June 7 that he was deploying National Guard troops to L.A. in response to the demonstrations.

The troopers will “assist the safety of federal capabilities, personnel, and property within the better Los Angeles space,” USNORTHCOM stated in an announcement. 

USNORTHCOM later up to date its assertion to replicate that the two,000 Nationwide Guard troops set to be activated had already been introduced final week and weren’t along with these numbers. They are going to be a part of about 2,100 Nationwide Guard troopers and 700 Marines who’re already deployed in L.A. 

The choice to activate them was on the path of Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, officers stated. USNORTHCOM didn’t elaborate on what prompted Hegseth to increase the troop rely in L.A.  

Forward of their arrival, the brand new batch of troopers are “finishing coaching on de-escalation, crowd management, and use of the standing guidelines for using power upfront of becoming a member of the federal safety mission,” USNORTHCOM stated.

The workplace of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s workplace launched an announcement to CBS News Los Angeles shortly after the announcement, which learn: “That is clear up from the Pentagon. This is not a brand new deployment — it is the identical group of troopers who’ve been diverted from crucial wildfire work and work on the border, now twiddling their thumbs for Donald Trump’s political theater. That is the deployment of the second set of 2000 federalized Guard troopers, beneath the June 9 order. The outline of what they’re and are not going to be doing is supposed to be in keeping with their authorized place, relatively than the immigration enforcement assist we have seen them doing in Los Angeles.” 

Mr. Trump’s initial memo ordering the deployment says the troops are in L.A. to “briefly defend” Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in addition to different federal personnel and federal property.

Native and state officers have closely criticized Mr. Trump’s transfer, arguing that native legislation enforcement had been capable of deal with the protests, a few of which turned violent, and saying the deployment of federal troops to metropolis streets has solely served to inflame the scenario in L.A., a metropolis with a big and various immigrant neighborhood.   

The downtown protests were in response to a sequence of immigration raids all through the L.A. space. 

The president’s deployment of federal troops domestically utilizing Title 10 is now going through a authorized problem from Newsom, who filed a lawsuit calling the transfer a “energy seize” and arguing that California Nationwide Guard troops had been positioned beneath federal management with out Newsom’s permission.

U.S. District Choose Charles Breyer of San Francisco briefly and briefly blocked the Nationwide Guard deployment final week. Nonetheless, hours later, an appeals court docket halted Breyer’s ruling.

On Tuesday, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the ninth Circuit heard arguments within the case over whether or not Mr. Trump exceeded his authority when he invoked Title 10.

Melissa Quinn and

Joe Walsh

contributed to this report.