Overview

• The administration has federalized roughly 4,700 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to support ICE operations and protect federal sites in Los Angeles.
• Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass have sued the administration over the troop deployments and imposed nightly curfews after consecutive nights of unrest.
• Protests have emerged in New York, Chicago, Seattle and Atlanta, with concerns about extremist and criminal infiltrations prompting ICE to dispatch elite Special Response Team agents to five Democratic-led cities.
• President Trump has ordered ICE to raise migrant arrests to 3,000 per week and is considering transfers of some detainees, including European nationals, to Guantanamo Bay.
• Trump announced a tentative trade deal with China to cut tariffs on rare earth metals and restore U.S. university visas for Chinese students.