In response to the city’s extensive riots against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) operations, President Donald Trump sent 700 Marines to Los Angeles and the surrounding area on Monday.
U.S. Northern Command announced in a press release on Monday that it had activated the Marine troops regiment that the Trump administration had “placed in an call standing over the weekend.”
According to U.S. Northern Command, “environ 700 Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division will easily connect with the Title 10 troops under Task Force 51 who are protecting national personnel and federal estate in the greater Los Angeles area.” According to the statement,” The deployment of the Marines is intended to provide Task Force 51 with sufficient troops to maintain continuous coverage of the region in support of the head national agency.”
700 active-duty Marines and about 2,100 National Guardsmen are all members of Task Force 51, according to the media release. Users of Task Force 51 have been taught in “de-escalation, group command, and standing guidelines for the use of force,” according to Northern Command.
About 700 active-duty U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton are being dispatched to Los Angeles in response to increased threats to federal law enforcement officials and national buildings, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in a speech on X, originally Online. Yet if Gavin Newsom won’t, we are obligated to stand up for federal law enforcement.
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The 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team in Los Angeles and the surrounding region had approximately 1,700 soldiers in its possession as of Monday, according to a press release from Northern Command.
According to Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Sean Parnell, who tweeted on Monday night,” The Department of Defense is mobilizing an additional 2, 000 California National Guard to be called into national service to support ICE &, to help national law-enforcement officials to properly discharge their jobs,” according to the statement from the president’s statement.
The overall number of National Guardsmen mobilized by the federal government in response to the protests has increased to over 4,100, according to The Associated Press’s report that Trump authorized the Department of Defense to send an extra 2, 000 National Guardsmen in response to the anti-ICE unrest in Los Angeles.
Trump said in a statement on Truth Social on Tuesday night that,” If I didn’t “SEND IN THE TROOPS” to Los Angeles the final three times, that once beautiful and magnificent Town may be burning to the earth right now, significantly like 25, 000 homes burned to the ground in Los Angeles due to an incompetent Governor and mayor.”
