MOSCOW - A United States (US) court, following a lawsuit filed by Democrats, has temporarily barred President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles amid protests against immigration policies, Sputnik/RIA Novosti reported.
"The court just confirmed what we all know - the military belongs on the battlefield, not on our city streets … End the illegal militarisation of Los Angeles now, President Trump," California Governor Gavin Newsom said Friday on X, attaching a copy of the court ruling.
The court issued an order requiring the National Guard to return to the control of the California governor. The order will go into effect at noon on Friday.
A raid by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to identify illegal immigrants in downtown Los Angeles on June 6 escalated into clashes with protesters.
That same day, Newsom threatened that the state could refuse to pay federal taxes in response to the Trump administration's possible large-scale cuts in federal funding.
The next day, the White House announced the deployment of 2,000 National Guards to the city.
In response to the troop deployment, Newsom officially requested the reversal of the decision, accusing the White House of provoking the riots and asserting that state and city authorities did not have any problems until the president intervened. - BERNAMA