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The Pentagon confirms Donald Trump is deploying another 2,000 National Guard troops and it is activating 700 Marines in the Los Angeles area to help the federal response to protests against immigration raids
California Governor Gavin Newsom says he will take legal action against the administration over the deployments
Demonstrations began outside in downtown LA on Friday after it emerged Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were carrying out raids across the city
Our correspondent Carl Nasman is at a protest which has been declared to be an unlawful assembly - watch his report
It is highly unusual for US military troops to be involved in domestic law enforcement
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Watch: Police fire rubber bullets at Los Angeles protesters on Monday
As we mentioned earlier, Donald Trump stopped for a chat with reporters, where he answered questions about the tensions in Los Angeles.
You can watch his comments on the government's response to clashes between demonstrators and police in the video below.
'We'll be very, very strong in terms of law and order,' says Trump
Image source, ReutersIn Los Angeles, groups of demonstrators are starting to face off with National Guard members and police.
On one road, protesters are holding up signs opposite a line of National Guard troops and local officers.
Image source, ReutersElsewhere, officers appeared to fire some kind of non-lethal round towards protesters.
We'll keep you updated with the latest developments right here.
Image source, Getty ImagesNow we’ve got more from Donald Trump’s appearance in front of reporters.
“We’ll send whatever we need to make sure there’s law and order,” he says. “Last night in Los Angeles we watched it very closely, there was a lot of violence there and it could have got much worse.”
Asked whether he sees protests spreading, Trump says: “We’re going to be watching it very closely.”
And, amid a row with California Governor Gavin Newsom over his decision to send in the National Guard, Trump says he called Newsom and told him: “You’ve got to take care of it otherwise I’m sending in the troops, and that’s what we did.”
US President Donald Trump has just answered questions from reporters about the clashes in Los Angeles before leaving for a trip to Camp David.
"We're going to have troops everywhere," he says when asked if he plans to send the military to Los Angeles.
"We're not going to let this happen to our country... If we see danger to our country and our citizens, we're going to be very strong."
We'll bring you more from Trump as we get it.
Image source, ReutersAfter clashes on Friday and Saturday between federal officers and protesters, National Guard guard troops have arrived in Los Angeles. Here’s what’s been happening:
Regan Morris
Reporting from Los Angeles
Image source, EPAI’ve spoken to a few of the National Guard soldiers here. They don’t know exactly where they’re going to be deployed or what they’re exactly doing here.
Local officials have said they don’t really want them here, so we’ll have to see what kind of role they have.
So far today it’s been relatively quiet, although there are further protests expected this afternoon outside City Hall.
In a few hours from now, people are going to be gathering outside City Hall and they want Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) out of Los Angeles. The state city leaders are calling for calm and peaceful demonstrations.
We don’t know if the National Guard is going to show up there, but it’s just around the corner from here, so it does seem likely.
Image source, Getty ImagesUS Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has emphasised that the National Guard has arrived in Los Angeles to "keep law and order" after last night's clashes in Paramount.
Speaking to the BBC's US partner CBS News, Noem declined to say where exactly the National Guard might be deployed to, after its members and vehicles had been spotted stationed at a federal building in the city.
"They're there at the direction of the president in order to keep peace and allow people to be able to protest," she says. "They can use their special skillset to keep peace."
And, after Donald Trump went over the head of California Governor Gavin Newsom to send in the National Guard, Noem suggests this is because the Democratic governor - with whom Trump has a long-running feud - has "proven that he makes bad decisions".
“That’s why the president chose the safety of this community over waiting for Governor Newsom to get some sanity”, she suggests.
Image source, Getty ImagesWe’ve got some reaction from Democrat Nanette Barragan, a congresswoman for Paramount, where clashes broke out between protesters and immigration officials over the weekend.
Speaking to CNN, Barragan said there’s no disagreement that people being violent should be arrested and prosecuted.
“But this is not what’s happening,” she says, suggesting that peaceful protests are being targeted.
“The president is sending the National Guard because he doesn’t like the scenes,” she says. “He doesn’t like the scenes of people peacefully protesting.”
“We want to make sure that people continue to speak up,” she adds, encouraging residents to do so peacefully.
Image source, Getty ImagesWe reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director Todd Lyons blamed the LA Police Department (LAPD) for taking "over two hours" to respond to unrest on Friday.
The LAPD has denied this.
"Contrary to the claim that LAPD delayed its response for over two hours, our personnel mobilized and acted as swiftly as conditions safely allowed," the LAPD tells the BBC's US partner CBS News.
The police say their response time was "impacted by significant traffic congestion", "the presence of demonstrators", and "the fact that federal agents had deployed irritants into the crowd".
They say this "created a hazardous environment for responding officers", but adds that within 55 minutes of the call for help, officers had started to disperse the crowds.
The LAPD also says its response was affected because they had not coordinated with federal agencies in advance, and so could not "proactively plan" for possible unrest.
Image source, Getty ImagesLast night's clashes between protesters and immigration officers came after similar confrontations the day before in downtown Los Angeles, where LA police faced off with demonstrators.
Responding to Friday night's unrest, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) calls the events "appalling".
"Our brave officers were vastly outnumbered, as over 1,000 rioters surrounded and attacked a federal building," Todd Lyons says in a statement.
He also suggests that Los Angeles police were slow to react, saying "it took over two hours for the Los Angeles Police Department to respond, despite being called multiple times".
Lyons criticises LA Mayor Karen Bass as well, arguing she has taken "the side of chaos and lawlessness over law enforcement".
The National Guard is a reserve force for the US military, usually working at the state level. In this case, it's the California National Guard in Los Angeles.
Many members have civilian jobs or go to college while training part-time with the military.
Normally, the National Guard is called in by a state's governor, but Donald Trump has used a provision that lets him take control himself.
"National Guard Soldiers serve both community and country. Our versatility enables us to respond to domestic emergencies, overseas combat missions, counterdrug efforts, reconstruction missions and more," their mission statement says.
Image source, US Northern CommandEarlier, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested that active-duty Marines could be called in if the violence in LA continues.
Now, a defence official says several hundred Marines have received orders to prepare for deployment in case they're needed in Los Angeles, according to BBC's US partner CBS News.
Meanwhile, US Northern Command - a combatant commands of the Department of Defense - says the California National Guard 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) has "deployed approximately 300 soldiers to three separate locations" in the greater Los Angeles area.
Earlier, we reported that the National Guard had started gathering outside federal buildings in LA.
Now, more photos are coming in showing troops and vehicles.
An LA official has said several protests are expected today.
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Image source, Getty ImagesDonald Trump’s “border tsar” Tom Homan has warned that someone could “lose their life” if clashes between protestors and immigration officers continue.
Homan, who was put in charge of US borders after Trump took office, tells NBC: “It’s a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt… If this violence continues, someone’s going to lose their life.”
He says Trump’s unusual move to send in the National Guard is needed “to help us protect public safety”.
According to Homan, the National Guard are there “not just to protect the law enforcement officers but to protect this community, because people are going to get injured”.
Bernd Debusmann Jr
Travelling with Donald Trump, in New Jersey
Image source, ReutersDonald Trump attends the UFC-316 mixed martial arts event in New Jersey last night
I'm in New Jersey, where President Donald Trump spent the night at his Bedminster property after going to the UFC fight in Newark last night.
Even as news of the National Guard deployment broke, we didn't hear directly from him, who seemed in good spirits as he entered the arena to thunderous applause and "USA" chants.
We may, however, hear from him today.
At 15:45 EST (20:45 BST), the president – along with the travelling press pool, including the BBC – will fly to Hagerstown, Maryland, before heading to Camp David for the night.
It's possible he'll speak to reporters before boarding, or during the hour-long flight, as he did on the way here.
If he does, we're likely to hear him condemn the protests in Los Angeles, echoing what we've heard from other officials and on his Truth Social posts.
We'll bring you the latest as we get it, so stay with us.
Gabriela Pomeroy
Live reporter
Image source, Kuali Linda AlemanI have spoken to one of the protesters in Los Angeles, a Mexican activist named Kuali Linda Aleman, who’s lived in the city for most of her life.
On Friday, Kuali was protesting in downtown Los Angeles, using a megaphone and shouting, “stop the arrests”.
On Saturday, she joined a protest in the Paramount district, where she says there were helicopters overhead and hundreds of police on the ground.
“We did not provoke anything,” she says. “They were continually spraying us with tear gas, but we were able to wash our faces and get on with it.”
“The police were very organised and there were tonnes of vehicles,” she adds.
Kuali plans to protest again today outside City Hall. She says the National Guard won’t stop her and she’s “not afraid”.
“We want ICE to stop the arrests, and we want innocent families to come home,” she says. “Even though Trump is making these threats, we won’t back down.”
Image source, CBSNational Guard troops have been deployed in Los Angeles by Donald Trump
A senior Los Angeles city official has told CBS, the BBC's US partner, that the National Guard is deployed at the federal buildings in downtown LA and Westwood.
"There are going to be several protests today in the city of Los Angeles. The city and police are monitoring those," the official says.
The official also says the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has made 29 arrests, almost all for failing to disperse, which is a misdemeanour offence.
They add that city officials "are supportive of immigrant rights" and called the situation a "no win" for the police.
If federal officials ask for help with public safety, LAPD will respond, the official says.
But they add: "They will not respond or engage in any immigration policy enforcement issue."
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Christal Hayes
Reporting from Los Angeles
Many waking up in the Los Angeles area are startled by the news of the National Guard arriving here.
There have been protests on multiple days this week, all in areas where immigration raids were happening. But the LA area is huge and these protests were fairly isolated in small pockets of the city.
The county has nearly 10 million residents and covers 4,000 sq miles.
Many of my friends around town were going about their normal Saturday nights unaware of the unrest or Trump's rare move of using presidential authority to go around the governor to deploy troops here.
The areas where the protests happened both Friday and Saturday were isolated to a part of downtown LA and to Paramount, a small city in south Los Angeles County where raids were happening.
Paramount is a heavily Latino area where 82% of residents are Hispanic, external.
I live close to that area and could hear the echo of "booms" as protests raged.
The National Guard last came for unrest in 2020 - amid protests after George Floyd's death - but it was not a deployment made under presidential authority.
Our mayor made the request to our governor for troops to help quell the unrest. Troops more recently came here for a natural disaster after the LA fires raged earlier this year.
Image source, ReutersThe National Guard arrives in Los Angeles following weekend protests; photo taken on 7 June
Anthony Zurcher
North America correspondent
Image source, ReutersOn the campaign trail last year, Donald Trump promised that he was not going to tolerate left-wing lawlessness on American streets and would use the full force of his presidential powers in response.
The protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement efforts in California on Saturday night gave him an opening to follow through on that promise.
Never mind that the Los Angeles Police Department said that the protests were largely peaceful or that the ones that were more disruptive involved just a few hundred individuals at most.
Over Governor Gavin Newsom’s objection, Trump federalised the 2,000 California National Guard soldiers, and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that US Marines were on “high alert” to also deploy – which would mark a rare use of active duty US military on American soil.
By Sunday morning, Trump was declaring victory and thanking the National Guard for restoring peace, even though the guard had yet to assemble.
The speed with which Trump reacted, even while he was sitting ringside at a UFC match in New Jersey, suggests that this is a fight his administration is prepared for – and even eager to have.
The White House believes that law and order and aggressive immigration enforcement are winning issues for him. His actions will thrill his core base of supporters and could sway political independents concerned about public safety.
Image source, Getty ImagesBernie Sanders condemns Donald Trump's decision to call in the National Guard to LA
On US breakfast shows this morning, politicians have been reacting to clashes in LA between protesters and immigration officials.
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders tells CNN that Trump is "moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism" after involving the National Guard without the consent of California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Sanders says the decision shows Trump "thinks he has the right to do anything he wants".
Democrat Senator Corey Booker agrees, telling NBC that Trump's decision breaks "generations of tradition" and is "only going to incite the situation".
He also warns that Trump is "sowing chaos and confusion" by arresting people "who are trying to abide by the law" at immigration hearings.
But, Republican Senator James Lankford suggests to NBC that Trump is only seeking to "de-escalate all the tensions".
He says that it is clear that LA's police forces are "being overwhelmed". "We want to make sure those protests actually don't spiral out of control," he explains.