He sends HegSeth 700 naval infantry to be withdrawn from Los Angeles
The Pentagon confirmed on Monday that 700 naval infantry deployed in Los Angeles last month amid protests on the increase in the immigration application is withdrawn from the city.
“With the return to Los Angeles, [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth] The chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Bernil said in a statement to the newspaper “Sister Hill sister”:
Barnell claimed that “the unambiguous existence” in the city was “useful in restoring the regime and supporting the rule of law”, so that a number of members of the service remained in public opinion after the initial presentation of the force in June.
The Trump administration continues to expand its military deployment in Los Angeles after President Trump ordered about 4,100 National Guard forces in California, then 700 naval infantry to the city to suppress protests on raids by immigration and customs enforcement agents (ICE).
This step was severely criticized by California state officials to bypass the approval of the state governor, Gavin New Noire (D), who accused Trump of amplifying tensions with publishing operations that he said was unnecessary.
After the protests vanished to a large extent throughout the city, the members of the service found themselves without little to do it, and last week Higseth ordered half of about 4000 members of the remaining guardians to return home. This leaves 2000 in Los Angeles to continue their role in protecting ice agents while making raids.
150 guard members were allowed earlier to leave the city to help fight forest fires in California.
Newsom continued to press for all members of the service deployed to leave the city, saying that Trump used it as “political shirts”.
“Thousands of members are still federal in Los Angeles without reason and unable to carry out their critical duties throughout the state,” said in a statement published on the social platform X on July 15.
Barnell did not say when he would leave the city’s infantry, but the defense official told Washington Post that they are scheduled to return to the Twentynine Palms base in the coming days.
In a video posted on X on Monday, the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass (D) celebrated the naval match, describing its initial publication as “unnecessary”.
“The Marines will be able to return to their families and leave Los Angeles,” she said. “I would like to say that they heard from the people of Los Angeles: This was an unnecessary publication.”
