Mayor says Los Angeles being used as ‘test case’ by federal government – as it happened
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Mayor says ‘nothing warranted’ the intervention and that cannot ‘emphasize enough the level of fear and terror that is in Angelenos right now’ due to Ice raids

Despite comments made by Donald Trump just now (“we’ll see”), the US military is set to temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles while additional National Guard troops arrive in the city, a US official has told Reuters.

The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said a battalion would be sent, but for now, the Insurrection Act is not expected to be invoked.

The official added that the situation was fluid and could change.

    • DominusOfMegadeus
      4•7 days ago

      Technically, the president can Federalize the national guard in the case of inability to enforce U.S. laws, which is what he is claiming; that the protests are interfering with ICE doing their fascist jackboot crap aka enforcing U.S. Laws. Whether what ICE is doing is legal is another can of worms. So the whole thing is gray area. But actually deploying Marines appears to be flat out illegal.