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The deployment of US national and navy troops in Los Angeles will cost at least $ 134 million in the United States and will last at least the next 60 days, said defense secretary Pete Hegseth and a senior defense official told legislators.
“We have said very publicly that it was 60 days because we want to make sure that these rioters, looters and thugs on the other side attaining our police officers know that we are not going anywhere,” HegSeth told members of the subcommittee of defense of the credits of the Chamber.
After questioning members of the Congress, Hegseth turned to his actor controller, Bryn Woollacott Macdonnell, who provided the total estimated cost and said that “was largely the cost of travel, housing and food”. She said that money would come from operating and maintenance accounts.
US President Donald Trump has sent more than 4,000 national guard troops and 700 navy in active service to repress the demonstrations despite objections of the Governor Democrat Gavin Newsom and local leaders, notably the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass, who was to provide an update on protests early on Tuesday afternoon.
“The Governor of California did not protect his people, with the mayor of Los Angeles, so President Trump said that he would protect our agents, and our guard and our navies are proud to do so,” said Hegseth.
Newsom and Bass said that the federal response had increased a situation that could have been kept under local police.
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Los Angeles police chief Jim McDonnell, said in a statement that he was confident in the police service to manage large -scale demonstrations and that the arrival of the Marines without coordination with the police service would present an “important logistical and operational challenge”.
General of the Marine Corps, Eric Smith, told a budgetary hearing on Capitol Hill that the battalion had not yet been sent to demonstrations. The navies are trained for the control of crowds but have no arrest authority and are there to protect government property and federal staff, said Smith.
Federal military deployment requests generally come at the request of a state governor, not in defiance of one. Newsom said California would continue the administration accordingly.
Trump’s orders seem to have been the first time that has happened without the state approval since former American president Lyndon Johnson deployed troops in Alabama in the mid -1960s.
Under the Posse Comitatus Act, troops are prohibited from showing American police on American soil. To invoke the insurgency law, which allows troops to do so, is incredibly rare, and it is not clear if Trump plans to do so.
“If there was an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it,” the president of the Oval office said on Tuesday.
Tensions climbed to Los Angeles after a series of scales at the end of last week, especially in the city’s fashion district and in a home depot, pushed the count of immigrant arrests in the city after 100 years.
In San Diego nearby, heavy tactical equipment officers fired flash-bang explosives in a popular Italian restaurant on May 30, an operation that led to four immigration arrests.
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California continues the American president, accusing him of illegal federal surpassing by deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles demonstrations in the face of ice immigration raids. The Pentagon also deployed around 700 American navies on Monday to strengthen the federal response.
Questions about deportations
Hegseth said that immigration and customs’ application agents (ICE) expel “illegal criminals”, but democrats and immigration defenders said it was not clear if this has always been the case, citing a lack of transparency from the Trump administration.
A Washington Post report on Tuesday said some people from Southern California raids may have already been expelled. The judges in a certain number of cases across the country have wondered if the administration gave the deportees the possibility of contesting their moves, and the orders of the court led the government to facilitate the return of at least two people in the United States
The United States has a significant problem with unauthorized people inside its borders, estimated between 11 million and 12 million people per various people of think-tank. Trump’s White House spokesman said that in January, the administration considered any unauthorized “criminal” person, even if illegal entry is considered a civil offense.
Certain legislators of the hearing of the subcommittee of the subcommittee, of both parties, clearly indicated that they were unhappy that Hegseth did not provide details on the first defense budget proposed by the administration, which, according to Trump, would total 1 billion of dollars, a significant increase compared to the current expenses of more than $ 800 billion.
Tuesday’s hearing was HegSeth’s first public appearance in Capitol Hill since he crossed out by his confirmation from the Senate with a voting viavice-president JD Vance.
A lot of controversies of the first mandate in Hegseth were barely discussed, or not at all, although a certain number of these problems can arise during its appearance provided at the hearing of the Chamber’s armed service committee on Thursday.
These include plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in security improvements to transform an Qatari jet into Air Force One, to pay up to $ 45 million into a military parade scheduled for Saturday, and its use of an unwanted signal messaging application on imminent military strikes targeting Houthi activists in Yemen, in which it seemed to reveal operational details.
The pentagon watchdog examines whether one of HegSeth’s aid was invited to delete signal messages.
