The National Guard in Los Angeles has detained anti-ICE protesters while providing security for immigration operations, with officials expecting protests to escalate.

The coalition urged the court to block the president’s order, which they warn immediately erodes civil liberties, destabilizes emergency response operations and threatens the rule of law.

The former vice chief of the National Guard has denounced President Donald Trump’s deployment of troops in Los Angeles as “bad for all Americans concerned about freedom of speech and states’ rights.” Trump made the extraordinary decision to send 2,

Not even a voicemail,” Newsom said in an X post responding to Trump’s Oval Office comments. “Americans should be alarmed that a President deploying Marines onto our streets doesn’t even know who he’s talking to.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the deployment of thousands of troops to Los Angeles was about maintaining law and order as federal agents do their job. "The mission in Los Angeles