Elements of the California National Guard’s 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team have begun deploying to Los Angeles, following orders from U.S. Northern Command amid escalating tensions related to federal immigration enforcement operations in the city.

The news was confirmed in a tweet by U.S. Northern Command late Saturday evening:

“#USNORTHCOM can confirm that elements of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team from the California National Guard have begun deploying to the Los Angeles area, with some already on the ground. Additional information will be provided as units are identified and deployed.”

The move comes in the wake of widespread protests sparked by a series of aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across Los Angeles earlier in the week. Those operations reportedly resulted in the detention of more than 120 undocumented individuals, drawing significant backlash from immigrant advocacy groups, civil rights organisations, and local officials.

In response to what the White House described as a “threat to federal facilities and personnel,” President Trump invoked Title 10 authority to federalise the California National Guard—overriding the objections of Governor Gavin Newsom. This decision marks the first such action in California in decades and has reignited debate over the limits of federal power in domestic affairs.

According to Pentagon sources, around 2,000 National Guard personnel are expected to deploy, with approximately 300 troops already on the ground. These troops are reportedly being positioned around key federal buildings, including the Metropolitan Detention Center, U.S. District Court, and other sensitive locations in downtown Los Angeles.

Local officials have criticised the deployment as disproportionate and politically charged. Governor Newsom released a statement condemning the federal intervention, saying: “Californians can manage our own public safety. Turning our cities into military zones is not the answer.”

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass echoed that sentiment, warning that the presence of infantry units in urban neighbourhoods could “inflame tensions rather than ease them.”

Despite the heavy troop presence, the city remained largely calm on Sunday, with peaceful demonstrations continuing outside several ICE facilities and downtown government buildings.

Military officials insist the troops are present strictly to safeguard federal infrastructure and are not authorised to conduct law enforcement operations.

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  2. Perhaps the administration requires to pull its forces back from Europe because it believes it needs to guard from some form of threat in North America

    Russia and China are no longer the problem, Canada and California are the real threats.

    I’m pretty sure America is now living in a South Park episode. How did the country that did Apollo come to this.

  3. Who would have guessed, the Civil War could yet start in California, send in the Marines, what could possibly go wrong?

    • Nah…In the USA the feds are the authority for anything immigration, & the “leaders” of Cali and LA have done zero to keep the peace, this is the only option.

    • For all their talk about “2nd ammendment rights” and “resisting tyranny” the bottom line is most MAGA leap at the opportunity to don jack boots and trample on people (some even make multiple accounts).

        • The MAGA cult certainly look keen to make sure this insurrection doesn’t go to waste. They welcome any excuse to get the camo out and give civilians a good hard ‘militarisation’.

          In a well functioning democracy, the military should focus on external threats and the police on civil disorder. But there again, we are talking about the USA where the usual democratic standards and norms increasing only seem to be applied sparingly.

      • The issue you have in the US is decades of ineffective presidencies who have failed to stem illegal immigration etc. In addition, the US has seen the same type of deindustrialisation as the UK, both issues are pillers of discontent and Trump has promised to address them.

        Both issues are perfectly legitimate, but, as is often said, Trump is no strategist, he’s a poker player, not a chess player, this coupled with a reactionary presidential system, means Americans Pandoras box isn’t carfully opened, it has its lid blown clean off its hinges!

  5. This is entirely concocted by Trump as, at best, a PR stunt, at worst, an excuse to get to martial law.

    Imagine a similar situation in the UK, the last people you would call out would be the Army Reserve (TA)!

  6. They are deporting illegal immigrants. The UK should take notes, leave the ECHR and do the same. A country that cannot control its borders is no longer a country.

  7. Young troops trained for war on the streets with weapons confronting angry civilians with access to weapons what possibly could go wrong?🙄

  8. The law must be maintained. Ultimately the purpose of an armed forces is to maintain the boundaries of where we set the law and where others set the laws.

    Not sure going straight to national guard is the best response, but I suspect Trump is setting a trap for Democrats to fall into if they show support for people that his administration are labelling insurrectionists. Most will be smart enough to avoid this, but no doubt some will take the bait hook, line and sinker.

    • Was/is there an actual riot that the police couldn’t handle? From what I’ve read if the LAPD were having trouble all they do is call in extra police from the surrounding districts to help swell the numbers,at least then you have professional law enforcement not boys on the streets who are not trained for the situation!

      • Jacko, true, but also…if a problem was beyond police control (after police have called in those extra police you mention) then the State Governor can call out the State’s National Guard. The Governor did not think that was necessary.

        • Indeed, the Governor explicitely said he didn’t want the National Guard on the Streets and Trump said “No, I watched Andor and think the Empire had a point.”

  9. The U.S. has in untenable security threat..leftist subversives attacking the coastal cities to the east and west, and the Canadian government undertaking a political warfare campaign using Mounties to protect and develop fentanyl supply lines in the north and in the south a cartel led government planning an invasion.. what will they do…National conscription..build walls to the north and south..gather new effective allies such as Russia, stop working with Parasite liberal democracies who pretend to be allies but are clearly subverted by leftist communists… it’s all The fifth columnist Democratic Parties doing..clearly they are anti democratic and the voting system needs to be changed to exclude their supporters as much as possible.

  10. Trump is trying to provoke an incident by putting the California NG under federal control and deploying them in the streets and yet there’s nothing going on in LA that the LAPD couldn’t handle. This is a political stunt concocted to punish Gavin Newsom because Newsom stood up to Trump and to punish California in general for being predominantly Democrat. Meanwhile Border Czar Tom Homan has “joked” about arresting Gov. Newsom. A president who uses the military for his own political ends is a threat to democracy. Anyone who doesn’t see the danger in all of this, the real threat to democracy, is blind as a bat.

    • Who is actually in control? I assume it’s the LA police chief,now if he doesn’t want to deploy the troops on the streets who can make him? The governor won’t as he has said they are not needed,so can TACO order troops on the street in a separate chain of command? Now that would be a recipe for disaster! Apparently he is sending marines in now🙄

      • Yes essentially the National guard have been federalised, essentially trump has removed them from the control of the state and taken control of them directly. That is the issue, essentially Trump has usurped state control. There are only three reason Trump can federalised national guard

        The law says this can be done under three circumstances: when the US is invaded or in danger of invasion; when there is a rebellion or danger of rebellion against the authority of the US government; or when the president is unable to “execute the laws of the United States”, with regular forces.

        But the law also says that title 10 orders for those purposes “shall be issued through the governors of the States”. So It’s not immediately clear whether the president can activate national guard troops without the order of that state’s governor, essentially Trump may have broken the U.S. legal system a bit with this.

        • The key issue is that, as far as I know, Title 10 doesn’t allow National Guard troops to be used in a police function, they’re essentially deployed to protect federal property and personnel. Trump can get around this by using the presence of the California NG and the Marines to provoke an already tense situation, i.e. to instigate riots. This could also be done through the use of agents provocateurs. He could then invoke the Insurrection Act which does allow the US military to be used in a law enforcement capacity: Trump could deploy both the California NG and the Marines to LA to arrest American citizens who have been deemed to be engaged in “insurrection”.

          The Posse Comitatus Act forbids the military from being used in a law enforcement capacity within the United States – the Insurrection Act is, to my knowledge, the only exception to the Posse Comitatus Act. The key for Trump would be to anger the crowds and get some really violent riots going and use that to justify the use of the Insurrection Act. There are no clear cut definitions of “insurrection”, “riots”, “domestic violence”, etc. in the Insurrection Act and it’s historically been at the president’s discretion to declare when the Insurrection Act is justified. The US Supreme Court can intervene if it feels that the president has acted in bad faith, lacks honest judgment, or has made a mistake by using the Act. Does the current Supreme Court have the backbone to protect US democracy? Beats me!

          Personally, I think Trump is using LA as a test case to see how both the military and the courts react to the use of the military to suppress lawful protest. If this idea works as planned in LA it can then be used in other urban centres across the US. We’re only in the fifth month of Trump’s four-year term, so stay tuned!

  11. The “military response” is just a few guardsmen keeping rioters away from federal buildings. Do they need to be there? Probably not, but this isn’t really a big deal despite the noise being made in the media.

    I personally think the rioters waving foreign flags are a bigger problem.

    • It’s actually a huge issue.. trump has essentially pushed the meaning of a title 10 orders well beyond what they are designed for.. he’s taken authority he did not have.. it’s not an insignificant constitutional crisis.

      • He’s essentially without any moral sense and will sacrifice his country for his own benefit, and especially to avoid jail.

    • Will you see it as a problem if people protest his parade? He has already stated they will be met with “much and heavy force” if they do!

      • It’s a free country, so no. It seems like it would be more fun to just watch it rather than get angry and protest, but people can do what they like.

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