What to Know About the LA Immigration Protests

Follow live updates on the L.A. immigration protests.

As Los Angeles braced for more confrontations between law enforcement and demonstrators, the United States Northern Command said on Monday that the Trump administration was deploying a battalion of 700 Marines to the city to protect federal property and personnel.

The Marines were set to join hundreds of members of the California National Guard who deployed to Los Angeles on Sunday. The Guard troops were called in by President Trump, against the wishes of Gov. Gavin Newsom, after days of clashes over the weekend between the authorities and demonstrators protesting the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration.

California’s Democratic leaders have condemned Mr. Trump’s moves. Mr. Newsom said that the order to deploy the National Guard was “purposefully inflammatory” and called for it to be rescinded. On Monday afternoon, he said the order to send hundreds of Marines to California was “a provocation, not just an escalation.”

The state attorney general, Rob Bonta, said California would file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its move to take control of the state’s National Guard and deploy troops to Los Angeles to protect immigration enforcement agents.

The protests have been largely peaceful but have flared up in pockets of downtown Los Angeles and in nearby suburbs, as well as in San Francisco.