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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/marines-arrive-la-under-trump-orders- protests-spread-other-cities-2025-06-10/

LOS ANGELES, June 10 (Reuters) - Hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in the
Los Angeles area by Tuesday under orders from President Donald Trump, who
has also activated 4,000 National Guard troops to quell protests in the
city despite objections from California Governor Gavin Newsom and other
local leaders.

The city has seen days of public outrage since the Trump administration launched a series of immigration raids on Friday. State officials said
Trump's response was an overreaction to mostly peaceful demonstrations.

About 700 Marines were in a staging area awaiting deployment to specific locations, a U.S. official said.

The Marines do not have arrest authority and will protect federal property
and personnel, according to military officials. There were approximately
2,100 Guard troops in greater Los Angeles on Tuesday, with more on the
way, the official said.

The troop deployments are estimated to cost about $134 million, a senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday. Bryn MacDonnell, who is performing comptroller duties at the Pentagon, told lawmakers the cost included
travel, housing and food for troops.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told KABC that more than 100 people had been arrested on Monday but that the majority of protesters were nonviolent.

"Let me be clear: ANYONE who vandalized Downtown or looted stores does not
care about our immigrant communities," Bass later wrote on X. "You will be
held accountable."

Trump has justified his decision to deploy active military troops to Los Angeles by describing the protests as a violent occupation, a
characterization that Newsom and Bass have said is grossly exaggerated.

In a social media post on Tuesday, Trump said Los Angeles would be
"burning to the ground right now" if he had not deployed troops to the
city.

Newsom accused Trump of sending troops to deliberately inflame the
situation for political reasons and said the president's actions made it
more difficult for local law enforcement to respond.

The protests since Friday have been largely peaceful and mostly
concentrated in downtown Los Angeles. But there have been clashes, with
some demonstrators throwing rocks and other objects at officers, blocking
an interstate highway and setting cars ablaze.

Several businesses were looted, including an Apple store and a CVS
pharmacy. Police have responded by firing projectiles such as pepper
balls, as well as flash-bang grenades and tear gas.

The Los Angeles Police Department said it arrested at least 40 people over
the weekend on charges including attempted murder with a Molotov cocktail
and assaulting an officer, and officials said they expected more arrests
after reviewing video.

RARE USE OF MILITARY

Trump's Marine deployment escalated his confrontation with Newsom, who
filed a lawsuit on Monday asserting that Trump's activation of Guard
troops without the governor's consent was illegal. The Guard deployment
was the first time in decades that a president did so without a request
from a sitting governor.

The use of active military to respond to civil disturbances is extremely
rare.

"This isn't about public safety," Newsom wrote on X on Monday. "It's about stroking a dangerous President's ego."

The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Jack
Reed, said he was "gravely troubled" by Trump's deployment of active-duty Marines.

"Since our nation's founding, the American people have been perfectly
clear: we do not want the military conducting law enforcement on U.S.
soil," he said.

U.S. Marines are trained for conflicts around the world - from the Middle
East to Africa - and are also used for rapid deployments in case of emergencies, such as threats to U.S. embassies.

In addition to combat training, which includes weapons training, some
units also learn riot and crowd control techniques.

DEMONSTRATIONS AND ARRESTS

The raids are part of Trump's sweeping immigration crackdown, which
Democrats and immigrant advocates have said are indiscriminately breaking
up families.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pledged on Monday to carry
out more operations to round up suspected immigration violators.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on Monday outside a federal detention
center in downtown Los Angeles where immigrants have been held, chanting
"free them all" and waving Mexican and Central American flags.

National Guard forces formed a human barricade to keep people out of the building. Police dispersed the crowd using gas canisters and arrested some protesters.

At dusk, officers had running confrontations with protesters who had
scattered into the Little Tokyo section of the city.

Protests also sprang up in at least nine other U.S. cities on Monday,
including New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco, according to local
news reports.

In Austin, Texas, police fired less-lethal munitions and detained several people as they clashed with a crowd of several hundred protesters.


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