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Military troops are protecting federal immigration enforcement agents as they conduct sweeps for illegal immigrants in California. On Tuesday, the Trump administration detailed the role National Guardsmen are playing to provide cover for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as they target illegal immigrants in Los Angeles.
The White House confirmed Wednesday that 330 immigrants had been detained by ICE in five days, as a result of raids spanning businesses across Southern California: two Home Depot stores, a doughnut shop, a car wash and agricultural fields along the Central Coast and in the San Joaquin Valley.
Federal appeals court blocks California's National Guard victory over Trump, escalating constitutional crisis between president and governor.
On Tuesday, the X page for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) posted photos of California National Guardsmen on the scene of a detention being carried out by an ICE agent with the caption "Photos from today's ICE Los Angeles immigration enforcement operation."
California governor and federal officials traded blame after ICE raids and a violent protest rocked the L.A.-area city of Paramount.
The Justice Department claims California's request to limit the federal response to violent riots in Los Angeles would "countermand" the president's lawful military directives.
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FOX 11 Los Angeles on MSNLA ICE protests, Day 8: Trump maintains control of National Guard troops in SoCal over NewsomThe National Guard, brought in by the Trump administration over the weekend, remains in Southern California as the area has entered Day 8 of anti-ICE protests.
At one middle school ceremony, the principal announced he had families stationed outside to alert if him if ICE showed up.
The civil unrest accompanying those protests fall “far short of ‘rebellion,” U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled, concluding that Trump’s attempt to equate the “spo