{"id":130830,"date":"2025-07-31T22:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/07\/31\/pentagon-pulls-back-more-national-guard-troops-in-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:04:04","slug":"pentagon-pulls-back-more-national-guard-troops-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/07\/31\/pentagon-pulls-back-more-national-guard-troops-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon pulls back more National Guard troops in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon said Thursday it is ending the deployment of all but 250 National Guard troops that were originally sent to Los Angeles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/06\/08\/trump-orders-national-guard-troops-to-la-to-quell-immigration-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/06\/08\/trump-orders-national-guard-troops-to-la-to-quell-immigration-protests\/\">to deal with protests<\/a> over the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered 1,350 National Guard members to leave this week. The rest will remain to protect federal personnel and property, according to the statement attributed to Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roughly 4,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines were deployed to Los Angeles in early June over the objections of state and local officials. Half of the Guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/07\/16\/pentagon-ends-deployment-of-2000-national-guard-troops-in-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/07\/16\/pentagon-ends-deployment-of-2000-national-guard-troops-in-los-angeles\/\">were pulled back<\/a> roughly two weeks ago, and the Marines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/07\/21\/pentagon-withdraws-700-marines-from-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/07\/21\/pentagon-withdraws-700-marines-from-los-angeles\/\">were ordered to leave<\/a> a few days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe greatly appreciate the support of the more than 5,000 Guardsmen and Marines who mobilized to Los Angeles to defend Federal functions against the rampant lawlessness occurring in the city,\u201d Parnell said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local leaders have contested the presence of federal troops in the city, blaming them for inflaming tensions in the region and said their presence was unnecessary. Mayor Karen Bass called the departure of more troops \u201canother win for Los Angeles\u201d in a post Wednesday night on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presence of Guard troops in the city had been mostly limited to two locations with federal buildings in Los Angeles, including the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office and detention facility downtown. Some soldiers have been protecting federal agents during immigration raids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National Guard troops recently accompanied federal authorities with guns and horses at a July 7 operation at MacArthur Park, a neighborhood with large Mexican, Central American and other immigrant populations, that ended abruptly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A vast majority of the troops remained at the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos during their time in Southern California and were not seen deployed in Los Angeles. Demonstrations in the city and the region in recent weeks have largely been small, scattered impromptu protests around immigration arrests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement that President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cpolitical theater backfired.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe women and men of our military deserve more than to be used as props in the federal government\u2019s propaganda machine,\u201d Newsom said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newsom sued the federal government in June over the deployment of the National Guard, arguing that Trump violated the law when he activated the troops without notifying him. 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