The showdown over President Donald Trump's decision to send troops to Los Angeles to quell immigration protests is set for a court hearing. California Gov.

The Trump administration faces a legal challenge to its deployment of the military to protests. Tensions flared after President Trump sent troops, and protests spread to other U.S. cities.

WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - Americans are divided over President Donald Trump 's decision to activate the military to respond to protests against his crackdown on migrants, with about half supportive of the move, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Thursday.

Thousands of people in cities across the U.S. have marched to protest President Trump's immigration crackdown. In Los Angeles, the city's police chief talked about the coordination with the National Guard and Marines.

The deployment marks a sharp escalation in the military's role in domestic unrest in the city caused by immigration raids by the Trump administration.

Protests are intensifying in Los Angeles after a weekend of riots over the Trump administration's immigration raids. Here's what to know.

The National Guard was conducting exercises in Los Angeles on Wednesday, after being deployed in response to anti-ICE protests in the city. Meantime, federal officials announced the first charges against protesters accused of threatening law enforcement.

More than 700 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, and the troops will join the thousands of National Guard members who were activated by President Donald Trump over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or LA’s mayor.

Democrats were walking a line between criticizing the White House for sending troops to put down protests in L.A. and the violence that Trump says caused him to act.

National Guard troops already have temporarily detained civilians in the Los Angeles protests over immigration raids