{"id":76955,"date":"2025-06-10T15:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/06\/10\/trumps-military-deployments-to-la-raise-legal-political-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:03:28","slug":"trumps-military-deployments-to-la-raise-legal-political-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/10\/trumps-military-deployments-to-la-raise-legal-political-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s military deployments to LA raise legal, political concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only days after protests against the administration\u2019s immigration crackdown began in Los Angeles, President Donald Trump has ordered almost 5,000 troops \u2014 including 700 Marines \u2014 to the city in a stunning display of force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the president hasn\u2019t invoked the Insurrection Act, required for the military to conduct law enforcement on American soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou have violent people, and we\u2019re not going to let them get away with it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Acyn\/status\/1931809187811803585\" rel=\"\">Trump told reporters Sunday<\/a>, while also noting he didn\u2019t think the violence amounted yet to an \u201cinsurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deployments, experts and former defense officials say, are technically legal but leave the military performing an awkward and potentially hazardous mission. The troops have been ordered to protect federal personnel and property amid the city\u2019s protests, which appeared to quiet Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, deploying them to an active protest zone risks making the units look as though they are conducting law enforcement, multiple sources said. Even more, sending them without the consent of the local government could drag the military into the deeply uncomfortable world of partisan politics, with lasting consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is something we should be prepared to do but it should be a last resort,\u201d said a former defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The troops approved to deploy to Los Angeles now include 700 active-duty Marines and 4,000 troops from the California National Guard who are operating under Title 10, or federal, authority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDue to increased threats to federal law enforcement officers and federal buildings, approximately 700 active-duty U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton are being deployed to Los Angeles to restore order,\u201d Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted to X on Monday evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pressed by lawmakers about the deployments during a House Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday, Hegseth said the active-duty troops would also provide extra security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers operating in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe believe that ICE, a federal law enforcement agency, has the right to safely conduct operations in any state and any jurisdiction in the country,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That mission \u2014 called \u201cdefense support of civil authorities,\u201d or providing military assistance to civilian agencies \u2014 has been invoked by the Defense Department in the past, most recently to support immigration controls at the southwest border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in this case, Trump has tasked the troops to protect immigration officers and federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles and the surrounding area \u2014 not contain the protests directly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said, multiple experts described this mission as a distinction without a true difference. Sending almost 5,000 troops to an area of unrest was almost certain to chill any further protest, peaceful or not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a technique for getting around some of the legal restrictions,\u201d said Lindsay Cohn, who studies civil-military relations at the Naval War College but was not speaking on behalf of the U.S. government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without having the Insurrection Act invoked, the Defense Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esd.whs.mil\/Portals\/54\/Documents\/DD\/issuances\/dodi\/302521p.pdf\" rel=\"\">has strict rules on what troops can do on American soil<\/a>. For example, U.S. forces can\u2019t conduct searches and seizures, make arrests or use force except in the case of self-defense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, congressional Democrats have expressed serious concerns about the parameters of the deployments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe president\u2019s decision to call in the National Guard to Los Angeles was premature, and the decision to deploy active-duty Marines as well is downright escalatory,\u201d said Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., ranking member of the appropriations committee\u2019s defense panel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cActive-duty military have absolutely no role in domestic law enforcement, and they are not trained for those missions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the unusual nature of the mission, troops are rarely trained in advance for deployments like the one occurring in Los Angeles. Instead, the units heading into the city are likely being briefed by lawyers or other subject matter experts on what authority they have and what specific tasks they will perform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is almost always just-in-time training,\u201d the former defense official said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California government officials have also objected to the deployments, with the state\u2019s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, filing a lawsuit Monday to have the troops removed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe absurdity of threatening the people of the United States of America with their own military is morally reprehensible,\u201d Newsom posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last time the federal government deployed troops to a state without local consent was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. 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Trump considered invoking the Insurrection Act during the widespread protests against police violence in 2020, though ultimately held off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Los Angeles, Marines were sent in to help quell rioting after a jury acquitted police for beating Rodney King, an unarmed Black man, in 1992. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the reasons those troops helped resolve the violence 30 years ago was that they were seen as a neutral party, not responsible for the police violence that angered so many people in the city, said Carrie Lee, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s executive order over the weekend permits the administration to deploy troops to cities where protests are either occurring or \u201clikely to occur,\u201d a broad description that may allow forces to operate in other cities if the demonstrations spread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tasking the troops to support the target of the protests \u2014 in this case immigration officers \u2014 may make them more controversial themselves, Lee said. 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