Los Angeles, Marines and Trump
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A U.S. appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to maintain his deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles amid protests over stepped-up immigration enforcement, temporarily pausing a lower court ruling that blocked the mobilization.
California has challenged the administration’s move to call up the National Guard over the objections of Governor Gavin Newsom.
Protests in Los Angeles and San Francisco escalated after Trump deployed the National Guard without California’s approval. Demonstrators clashed with police, blocking freeways and setting cars ablaze amid heavy arrests.
Trump slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom, who previously called Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to California “deranged.”