The Trump administration is deploying an additional 2,000 California Army National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area, while local officials are saying that demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids have largely died down.
The Pentagon announced Tuesday the deployment of the additional service members, reports CNBC, which confirmed with the Los Angeles Police Department Wednesday that there have been no protest-related arrests since Saturday night.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass lifted the city’s night hours curfew Thursday, while the latest deployment brings the number of federal troops to 4,800, with 700 being U.S. Marines and the other 4,100 as California National Guard members.
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