Marines moved into Los Angeles amid protests
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With migrant communities already living in fear amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, ICE raids in downtown Los Angeles sparked days of protests.
President Donald Trump is thanking an appeals court for freezing an order that he return control of National Guard troops to California.
Protests in Los Angeles appeared to quiet overnight, but new ones are popping up in other cities. Trump has deployed more than 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to the protests.
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.
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.
What to know about Trump’s deployment of the Marines and National Guard to LA’s immigration protests
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marines and additional National Guard troops headed to Los Angeles on Tuesday, sent by President Donald Trump in response to protests over immigration raids despite the strenuous objections of the governor and local leaders. The authorization came amid mostly peaceful protests in country’s second-largest city on Monday.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has deployed its National Response Team to Los Angeles to help investigate high-profile arson cases related to ongoing protests of
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.
President Trump said people participating in protests in Los Angeles will not be allowed to wear masks and praised the National Guard for “a job well done” after he deployed them to the city to settle the protests. “These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLERATED,” he wrote on Truth…
Los Angeles broke out in violence over the weekend following protests across the city. Here's what travelers should know.