Trump Sends Marines to L.A. on 4th Day of Immigration Protests
The Trump administration is deploying a battalion of 700 Marines to Los Angeles to protect federal property and personnel, the United States Northern Command said on Monday.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California quickly condemned the deployment as a “provocation,” saying in an interview with The New York Times that there was no need for Marines, that the National Guard troops Mr. Trump had already deployed were not all being put to work and that the president was acting to sow “more fear, more anger, and to further divide.”
A few hundred of the 2,000 National Guard troops called up to serve in Los Angeles are already there, potentially intensifying tensions after several days of clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators protesting the administration’s immigration crackdown. As of Monday afternoon, the day’s protests there largely remained orderly and peaceful.
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