California Governor Gavin Newsom called on the Trump administration to rescind its “unlawful” deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state.
President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to the city to quell protests over federal immigration raids, in a move that Newsom criticized as unnecessary and “purposefully inflammatory.” The president signed a memo on Saturday ordering the deployment of 2,000 troops, marking the first time since 1965 that a president has activated the National Guard without state consent or request. Troops began arriving on Sunday.
“We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty—inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed,” Newsom, a Democrat, wrote on X Sunday evening.
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