- TROOPS IN L.A.: About 700 Marines from the Marine Corps base in Twentynine Palms, California, will deploy to Los Angeles to support the roughly 300 National Guard members already in the city to control protests against federal immigration raids, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. President Donald Trump had earlier ordered the deployment of 2,000 troops in a move California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized as inflammatory.
- HOW WE GOT HERE: Protests erupted after Immigration Customs Enforcement officers carried out raids Friday in three locations across Los Angeles, where dozens of people were taken into custody. Newsom called the raids “chaotic federal sweeps” that aimed to fill an “arbitrary arrest quota.”
- TRUMP VS. NEWSOM: “Border czar” Tom Homan threatened Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass with arrest if they impede troop deployment efforts. Newsom responded by saying: “Tom, arrest me. Let’s go.” Trump backed Homan’s threat, and Newsom called it “an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.”
- CALIFORNIA SUES: Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued Trump and Hegseth over the activation of the state’s National Guard, asking a court to declare the order unlawful.
- ARRESTS: At least 56 people were arrested this weekend as protesters were ordered to leave downtown and law enforcement shot “less-lethal” rounds. Demonstrators spilled out onto the 101 Freeway, while others set fire to Waymo driverless cars.
