Trump deploys additional 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles

President Donald Trump's medication is ordering an further 2,000 members of the California Army National Guard to the Los Angeles country nether federal command, the Pentagon announced precocious Tuesday.

The deployment of further soldiers was ordered contempt the information that demonstrations against national migration enforcement raids crossed the metropolis person mostly dissipated.

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told CNBC Wednesday that determination had not been immoderate arrests related to protests successful the metropolis since Saturday night.

Mayor Karen Bass lifted the city's nighttime curfew connected Tuesday.

The latest deployment brings the full fig of national troops presently deployed to the L.A. country to 4,800. Of these, 700 are U.S. Marines and 4,100 are California Army National Guard.

The troops volition "support the extortion of national functions, personnel, and spot successful the greater Los Angeles area," U.S. Northern Command said successful statement.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the actions of national troops deployed to L.A. astatine a Senate proceeding Wednesday successful Washington.

Hegseth said that the marines and National Guard troops deployed to LA person "conducted themselves with the utmost of professionalism, defending our national agents," during a proceeding earlier the Armed Services Committee.

Asked whether helium would travel a tribunal bid that said the deployment of troops to U.S. cities was illegal, Hegseth replied: "I don't judge territory courts should beryllium determining nationalist information policy."

"If the Supreme Court rules connected a topic, we volition abide by that," helium said aboriginal successful the hearing.

He besides defended the administration's activation of troops to LA, saying that Trump "had each the authorities, and the Defense Department happily supported, defending our ICE agents successful the behaviour of their job."

He did not reply erstwhile asked galore times by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., whether helium would support the determination to deploy troops to further U.S. cities.

"It's a implicit hypothetical lacking immoderate discourse astatine all," helium said to Warren.

In an unprecedented amusement of force, the Trump medication earlier this period deployed thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines to quell escalating clashes betwixt demonstrators and instrumentality enforcement successful the Los Angeles area.

The deployments drew crisp backlash from California Gov. Gavin Newsom and different authorities Democratic leaders, who did not petition the troops, which is simply a measurement that usually precedes the national deployment of forces.

The deployments person besides triggered a conflict successful the courts betwixt the authorities of California and the Trump White House. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday astir the legality of the national government's determination and appeared inclined to broadside with Trump successful the ongoing feud, POLITICO reports.

The latest unit deployment comes arsenic the protests, which drew demonstrators opposing the Trump administration's national migration enforcement actions, person started to upwind down.

"The curfew, coupled with ongoing transgression prevention efforts, person been mostly palmy successful protecting stores, restaurants, businesses and residential communities from atrocious actors who bash not attraction astir the migrant community," Los Angeles Mayor Bass said successful a news release connected Tuesday.