Overview

• The deployment comprises about 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines assigned to safeguard federal property and personnel during anti-ICE protests.
• Marines remain on standby after pausing street duty for a final day of nonlethal weapons and crowd-control training.
• National Guard units have detained protesters deemed threats to federal personnel and swiftly transferred them to local law enforcement.
• Acting Pentagon Comptroller Bryn MacDonnell estimates the operation will cost $134 million from the defense maintenance budget.
• Gov. Gavin Newsom has accused the administration of illegally commandeering California’s National Guard without consulting state law enforcement authorities.