President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guards troops to quell immigration protests in Los Angeles, overriding California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s objections in a rare move.

Protests continue in LA, and Trump has said he had to federalize California’s National Guard to “address the lawlessness.”

LA police chief says his team would not have deployed the National Guard; Trump ordered it from the 'top down':: Jim McDonnell, Police Chief, Los Angeles“We could handle this. I believe that we would have gone through a number of steps before we'd have deployed the National Guard or requested deployment of the National Guard.