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A battalion of 500 US Marines is mobilising Los Angeles Fox News has learned to respond to the immigration prevention enforcement riots.
Marines are tasked with protecting federal property and federal officials, and their deployment is unlimited.
Marines They will not perform the role of law enforcement, but it is unclear what their use of the rules of force is if protesters throw or spit things out.
Dozens of anti-ice raids arrested in Los Angeles as Trump sends National Guard to suppress violence
On Saturday, June 7, 2025, protesters fire the remains of the fire as riot equipment and gas masks personnel stand on guard outside the industrial park in Paramount, California. (AP Photo/Eric Sayer)
The new developments come after President Donald Trump sends some 2,000 National Security Guards A city where riots were broken over the weekend.
The Marines are from the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Marines, Twentynin Palms, California.
Just before the unfolding, Trump expressed optimism that the situation in Los Angeles is improving.
“I mean, I think we control it very well,” he told reporters. “I think it was a very bad situation. It was heading in the wrong direction. Now it’s heading in the right direction.”
The mobilization of the Marines is undoubtedly eliciting protests from liberal critics: the California government. Gavin Newsom He filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday to deploy security guards.
The governor’s office downplayed the military’s movements and called it “completely uninformed.”
“From our understanding, this is moving Marines from one base to another. At this point, the information we have is that Marines have not been deployed (it’s a difference that it’s mobilized).
Newsom and the California Attorney General have insisted Trump and the defence seconds. Pete Hegses He “trampled” California’s sovereignty by calling the state’s national guard without Newsom’s approval.
Meanwhile, Trump defended the decision Monday, adding that if protesters spit in the face of Los Angeles security guards, they would “be hit harder than they’ve ever been hit.”
On Sunday, June 8, 2025, the US National Guard was deployed around downtown Los Angeles, following the previous night’s migrant raid protests. (AP Photo/Eric Sayer)
Parental protesters hold Pinata deciphering President Donald Trump on June 9, 2025, outside the US embassy in Mexico City, supporting Mexico’s LA protests.
“If they spit, we’ll hit,” Trump wrote. “That disrespect is not tolerated!”
Federal law generally prohibits the US military from carrying out purposes for domestic law enforcement purposes unless the president calls. Rebellion Law.
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Newsom insisted that Trump “let’s make a crisis,” and that the president “want to confusion, so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.”
The protest began in response to an Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) attack in the Angel City as the Trump administration moved to keep its promise of massive deportation. Over the weekend, the protest was left to violence, leaving the vehicle that smashed into a broken window at the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters.
