Los Angeles – Defense Minister Beit Higseth and the main defense official said on Tuesday that the deployment of the National Guard and the Marine Corps to Los Angeles would cost at least 134 million dollars, and the last of the next 60 days.
The Marine Infantry Commander said on Tuesday that the naval infantry who was deployed in Los Angeles on the orders of President Donald Trump has not yet been called to respond to the city’s immigration protests and there is only to protect federal property.
700 naval infantry and 2000 from the other National Guard forces were sent to Los Angeles on Monday, and a military presence of local officials and governments Gavin Newhem does not want it and that the police chief says it makes it difficult to deal with protests safely.
The protester of the National flag of El Salvador is waving in front of a line of the National Guard in California in front of the federal building on Monday, June 9, 2025, in the center of Los Angeles.
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“We have announced very publicly that it takes 60 days because we want to make sure that these rioters and cute on the other side to attack our police officers know that we will not go anywhere,” Hegseth told members of the sub -committee to defend the House of Representatives.
After a constant interrogation of members of Congress, Higseth turned to his observation on behalf of Breen and Wallacot McDonnell, who presented the total and said that this is “to a large extent just the cost of travel, housing and food.”
She said that the money will come from operations and maintenance accounts.
General Eric Smith told the Marine Corps Capital in the Capitol Hill that the battalion had not yet been sent to any protests. He said that Marines were trained to control the crowds, but they have no arrest authority and there to protect government property and federal employees.
Trump doubled the number of guarding forces that were deployed shortly after the start of the first wave of 2000 on Sunday, after days of anger -led protests due to the enforcement of the immigration laws that the president said that critics say is the disintegration of migrant families.
The demonstrations continued on Monday, but they were less noisy, as thousands of people came in a massively in the city hall and hundreds of protest outside a federal complex that includes a detention center where some migrants are held after raids at the workplace throughout the city.
The protests in Los Angeles, a city, focused on 4 million people, to a large extent in several blocks of the city center. At dawn on Tuesday, the guard forces were stationed outside the detention center, but there was no sign of Marines.
Trump Los Angeles described in terrible phrases that Mayor Karen Bass and Newsom say anywhere close to the truth. They say it endangers public safety by adding military personnel, although the police say they do not need help.
Los Angeles Police chief Jim MacDonil said in a statement that he was confident of the police department’s ability to deal with widespread demonstrations and that the Marines’ arrival without coordination with the police department would “challenge a large logistical and operational.”
Newsom was described as reckless publishing and “lack of respect for our forces” in a post on the social platform x.
“This is not related to public safety,” the ruler said. “It comes to the pursuit of the arrogance of the dangerous president.”
The protests began on Friday after federal immigration authorities arrested more than 40 people throughout the city. The smell of smoke was suspended in the city center on Monday, a day after the crowd prevented a main highway and set self -driving cars in the fire while the police responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and flash bombs.
Protests against immigration raids spread on Monday to other cities in the country, including San Francisco and Santa Anna, California, as well as Dallas and Austin, Texas. The authorities in Austin seemed to use chemical irritants to disperse a crowd gathered near the government Capitol building. Texas Governor Greg Abbott posted on social media that more than dozens of demonstrators had been arrested.
California returns against the presence of federal forces
California Prosecutor Rob Punta filed a lawsuit over the use of the National Guard forces in the aftermath of the first publication, and reported that Trump had “landed” the state’s sovereignty.
“We do not take gently to the president who abuse his authority and illegally mobilizing the National Guard forces in California,” Punta said. A court order was asked to announce the use of Trump for the illegal guard and requested a restricted order to stop the publication.
Trump said the city was “completely obliterated” if the guard was not published.
US officials said that the marine infantry is necessary to protect federal buildings and employees, including immigration agents. A convoy of black buses and accompanied by Sharif vehicles left the base in the Twentynine Palms in the Sahara East Los Angeles late on Monday and headed towards the city, and stopped all night on the beach of the marine weapons station, south of Los Angeles.
Despite their presence, there has been limited participation so far between the guard and the demonstrators while local law enforcement is carried out control of the crowds.
The protests remained peaceful
Thousands of streets were immersed around the city hall to attend the Union Gathering on Monday before a hearing of the Labor leader, arrested by David Heareta, who was released a few hours after a bond worth $ 50,000. Hyrta was arrested on Friday while the immigration raids protested against a crowd’s cry for people angry at the campaign. He is the head of the international service employees of the California International Federation, who represents thousands of state members, security personnel and other workers.
The demonstrators danced and linked to a line of police officers outside the Federal Detention Center in the city center, where Herta was held. Religious leaders joined the demonstrators, and sometimes worked with the organizers to cancel the moments of tension.
With the mobilization dilution, the police began pushing the demonstrators away from the area, which led to the release of the munitions of the crowd while the people chanted, “a peaceful protest.” The officers have become more aggressive in their tactics in the evening, and sometimes they rise forward to arrest the demonstrators who approached. At least ten people surrounded by police and detention.
Outside the clothing warehouse in Los Angeles, relatives of the detained workers demanded a press conference to release their loved ones.
The Yacoub Vasquiz family, 35, who was reserving on Friday in the warehouse, said that they had not received any information about him yet.
“Jobs, a family man and the only one in his family,” Gabriel, brother of Vasquiz, told the crowd. He asked not to use his last name, for fear of targeting the authorities.
Several dozens of people were arrested throughout the weekend protests. The authorities say that one of them was arrested on Sunday to throw a Molotov cocktail in the police and another to crack a motorcycle in a group of officers.
Spreading the guard is an unprecedented escalation
Publishing appears to be the first time in decades, the National Guard of the state has been activated without the request of its ruler, and it is a major escalation against those who sought to hinder the collective deportation efforts of the administration.
The last time the National Guard was activated without the permission of the ruler in 1965, when President Lindon Johnson sent forces to protect the civil rights march in Alabama, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
In the direction on Saturday, Trump protested a legal bonus that allows him to deploy members of federal service when there is “a rebellion or a risk of rebellion against the authority of the United States government.”
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