Overview
- Trump has deployed a second wave of 2,000 National Guard troops and 700 active-duty Marines to Los Angeles in response to ongoing demonstrations against heightened ICE operations.
- Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta filed suit accusing the federal government of unlawfully seizing control of the state’s National Guard.
- The Pentagon estimates that the combined deployments of Guard and Marines in Los Angeles will cost about $134 million.
- Protests triggered by ICE raids and migrant arrests have continued around federal facilities, leading to a temporary assembly ban in downtown Los Angeles.
- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum urged Mexican nationals in the US to protest peacefully and condemned US migration tactics as human rights violations.