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Judge Blocks Trump’s National Guard Deployment in California
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Judge Charles Breyer ordered the administration to return control of the National Guard to the California governor, but an appeals court stayed the extraordinary decision Thursday night.
U.S. President Donald Trump can keep his deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, according to a court ruling, as protests against immigration raids look set to enter their second week in the strongest backlash since his return to power in January.
About 500 of the National Guard troops deployed to the Los Angeles protests have been trained to accompany agents on immigration operations, the commander in charge said Wednesday.
About 700 Marines and more than 4,000 National Guard have been deployed at the cost of $134 million. William Deverell is a professor of history at USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
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