Military requesting to pull 200 troops back from California protest duty
Washington – The best military commander in charge of troops deployed in Los Angeles to respond to demonstrations against immigration raids had asked the defense secretary Pete Hegseth if 200 of these forces could be returned to the Forest Fire combat service, two US officials said on Monday.
President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of approximately 4,000 troops from the California National Guard and 800 Navies in active service against the wishes of Governor Gavin Newsom in early June to respond to a series of demonstrations against immigration and customs raids in Los Angeles.
The national deployment of federal troops has raised multiple legal issues, especially if the administration would seek to use emergency powers under the insurrection law to allow these forces to carry out the application of the American soil law, which they are not authorized to do, except in rare circumstances. Marines, however, are mainly assigned to the protection of federal buildings.
The insurgency law has not been used. But in at least one circumstance, the Marines temporarily owned civilians in Los Angeles.
California has just participated in Peak Wildfire Season, and Newsom warned that the goalkeeper now undergoes him due to the deployment of Los Angeles protest.
The best military commander of these troops, the general of the Northern Command, Gregory Guillot, recently submitted a request to Hegseth to bring 200 of the national guard troops to Rattlesnake of the joint working group, which is the unit of the Forest Forest of the California National Guard, the officials said.
Officials spoke under the cover of anonymity to provide details not yet announced publicly.
Trump argued that there was an invasion of migrants entering the country without legal authorization. At the height of deployments, certain members of the congress in their annual budgetary hearings with the secretary wondered if he had planned to propose the national deployment, Hegseth did not provide a direct response.
The president of the chiefs of joint staff, General Dan Caine, said at the time to the legislators: “I do not see any foreign people and sponsored by the state, but I will be aware of the fact that there have been border problems.”
