Trump claims the troops are quelling protests. But California officials fear their real mission is bigger: militarizing mass deportation.

President Trump’s assertions that federal troops have saved the city from destruction did not appear to reflect reality.

Days of demonstrations against federal immigration raids in Los Angeles have fueled round-the-clock news coverage and a number of misleading social media posts, including unrelated videos being mislabeled or shared out of context.

In response to the growing protests, the Marines have been mobilized to help the National Guard. The 700 marines are working out of the naval weapons station in Seal Beach and just finished that training on Wednesday.

The lawsuit seeks to set aside the president’s order calling up troops in response to protests that spread over the weekend.

The California National Guard is conducting training on civil unrest in Los Alamitos, California, following several days of protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles.

Not even a voicemail,” Newsom said in an X post responding to Trump’s Oval Office comments. “Americans should be alarmed that a President deploying Marines onto our streets doesn’t even know who he’s talking to.