When President Donald Trump put 2,000 National Guard troops under his control on Saturday night and ordered them into Los Angeles, it was billed as an urgent response to quell protests. But it was also a move long in the making.

Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed after he interrupted a Los Angeles news conference on immigration held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The White House wants the national guard to play a bigger role in immigration enforcement, Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said in an interview Thursday.

Walz, who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2024, blasted the Trump administration’s “cruel and misguided immigration policies.” Minnesotans are “angry that the federal government has been snatching people up” and detaining them “without a shred of due process,” he added.

President Donald Trump in recent days has sent thousands of National Guard troops and 700 active duty Marines to quell Los Angeles-area protests over immigration enforcement actions, despite the objections of Democratic Gov.

The Trump administration must pull back on its use of military troops in Los Angeles to deal with protests over the president’s immigration raids, according to a federal judge.