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Trump deploys 2,000 additional National Guard troops to Los Angeles [1]

['Erin Doherty']

Date: 2025-06-18

A man faces members of security forces outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal building after days of protests against federal immigration sweeps and the deployment of the California National Guard and U.S. Marines, in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 10, 2025.

President Donald Trump's administration is ordering an additional 2,000 members of the California Army National Guard to the Los Angeles area under federal command, the Pentagon announced late Tuesday.

The deployment of additional soldiers was ordered despite the fact that demonstrations against federal immigration enforcement raids across the city have largely dissipated.

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told CNBC on Wednesday that there had not been any arrests related to protests in the city since Saturday night.

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

"The curfew, coupled with ongoing crime prevention efforts, have been largely successful in protecting stores, restaurants, businesses and residential communities from bad actors who do not care about the immigrant community," Bass said in a news release Tuesday.

The latest addition brings the total number of troops currently deployed to the LA area to 4,800. Of these, 700 are U.S. Marines and 4,100 are California Army National Guard.

The troops will "support the protection of federal functions, personnel, and property in the greater Los Angeles area," U.S. Northern Command said in statement.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the actions of federal troops deployed to LA at a Senate hearing Wednesday in Washington.

Hegseth said the Marines and National Guard troops deployed to LA have "conducted themselves with the utmost of professionalism, defending our federal agents," during a hearing before the Armed Services Committee.

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