President Donald Trump showed little interest in de-escalating the situation in Los Angeles on Sunday evening as he fired off a charged post calling on administration officials to “liberate” the city from what he called a “Migrant Invasion.”
In an extraordinary step on Saturday, the president ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to the area, against the wishes of local leaders, to quash protests that broke out over federal immigration raids at workplaces.
California Governor Gavin Newsom formally asked the Trump administration to rescind the order on Sunday evening, accusing it of deploying troops unlawfully and unnecessarily. Newsom said Trump is “hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.”
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