Trump on Sunday vowed the troops would ensure “very strong law and order,“ while appearing to leave the door open to deploying soldiers in other cities.
Helmeted troops in camouflage gear and carrying guns were stationed at a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles, where they joined Department of Homeland Security forces.
Trump, asked about the use of troops, appeared to leave the door open to a more widespread deployment in other parts of the country.
Responding to a question about invoking the Insurrection Act -- which would allow the military to be used as a domestic police force -- Trump said: “We’re looking at troops everywhere. We’re not going to let this happen to our country.”
“Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops into LA County -- not to meet an unmet need, but to manufacture a crisis,“ Newsom posted on X Sunday.
Newsom's warning came after Los Angeles was rocked by two days of confrontations that saw federal agents firing flash-bang grenades and tear gas toward crowds angry at the arrests of dozens of migrants.
Republicans lined up behind Trump to dismiss the pushback by Newsom and other local officials against the National Guard deployment.
As for threats by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday to send in active-duty Marines on top of the Guard troops, Johnson said he did not see that as “heavy-handed.”
Demonstrators told AFP the purpose of the troops was not necessarily to keep order.
“These protests have been peaceful. There’s no one trying to do any sort of damage right now and yet you have the National Guard with loaded magazines and large guns standing around trying to intimidate Americans from exercising our first amendment rights.”
“This is our community, and we want to feel safe,“ she told AFP.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said the move demonstrated “Trump’s authoritarianism in real time.”
'Good men and women'
Trump has delivered on a promise to crack down hard on undocumented migrants -- who he has likened to “monsters” and “animals” -- since taking office in January.
A CBS News poll taken before the Los Angeles protests showed a slight majority of Americans still approved of the immigration crackdown.
“Mexicans living in the United States are good men and women, honest people who went to the United States to seek a better life for themselves and to support their families. They are not criminals! They are good men and women!” she said.
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