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President Donald Trump has placed more than 4,000 California National Guardsmen on active duty with orders to help protect federal personnel and property in Los Angeles.
The call-ups began Saturday in response to protesters seeking to block them from carrying out deportations.
Trump’s move is unusual but not unprecedented. It is the first time since the 1960s that the federal government has activated Guardsmen without a governor's consent.
It has triggered comments from many elected officials, mostly along party lines.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democrat, the peacetime commander in chief of the California Guard, called the deployment “an overreach.”
He announced a federal lawsuit on Monday against the Trump administration over the action.
Approximately 300 members of the California Army Guard’s 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team were on duty Sunday in the greater Los Angeles area, according to a U.S. Northern Command press release.
They are on Title 10 orders under the command of U.S. Army North’s Task Force 51.
The number grew to about 1,700 from the brigade as of Monday.
Approximately 700 Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division from Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California, will “seamlessly integrate” with the Title 10 forces under TF 51, NORTHCOM also announced Monday.
Maj. Gen. Scott M. Sherman, the deputy commanding general-support/National Guard for U.S. Army North (Fifth Army), is in command of TF 51. He is a Colorado Army Guard officer on Title 10 duty.
TF 51 forces have been trained in “de-escalation, crowd control and standing rules for the use of force,” according to NORTHCOM.
Federal law prohibits federal troops, including Guardsmen in Title 10, from direct law enforcement.
—By John Goheen
