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Los Angeles (dpa)
California Governor Gavin Newsom has formally requested the Trump administration rescind an order deploying National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
National Guard troops began arriving in the city on Sunday amid ongoing protests against immigration raids.
Trump signed a memorandum on Saturday deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen "to address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester," the White House said.
Newsom made the request via a letter, which he then shared on X, to Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
"We didn't have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty - inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they're actually needed," Newsom wrote.
I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command.
— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) June 8, 2025
We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while… pic.twitter.com/SYIy81SZdH
"Rescind the order. Return control to California."
Saturday's order is believed to be the first time in 60 years that a president has deployed a state's National Guard without the governor's consent.
The last instance was in 1965, when President Lyndon B Johnson used troops to protect predominantly Black demonstrators during the civil rights movement in Alabama.
