Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) defended "peaceful" protests in Los Angeles full of demonstrators showing their support for due process. Sanchez said President Donald Trump wants to create chaos and it is his administration that is breaking the law,

President Trump said Monday that the city would have been “completely obliterated” if he had not deployed the National Guard.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the Trump administration to rescind the deployment, saying the federal government was moving to "take over the California National Guard," calling the move "purposefully inflammatory" and saying it will "only escalate tensions."

State law, in fact, specifically prohibits local law enforcement from working with federal immigration enforcement operations in most instances.

Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, according to three people familiar with the matter,

Australian television journalist Lauren Tomasi was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet Sunday while reporting live from downtown Los Angeles on the large-scale protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and subsequent deployment of California National Guard troops to the city.