After days of protests in California over a federal crackdown on immigrants, President Donald Trump said Saturday he was deploying the National Guard to quell the violence.

“In recent days, violent mobs have attacked ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California,” the White House said in a statement. “These operations are essential to halting and reversing the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States.”

Trump criticized California lawmakers, saying they had “completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens.”

The presidential memorandum signed by Trump deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard to “address the lawlessness,” the statement said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized

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