California Governor Gavin Newsom has condemned President Donald Trump 's decision to activate the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell anti-immigration enforcement protests in the city as "purposefully inflammatory," calling on protesters not to give the administration a reason to justify the measure.

"The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles—not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter , on Saturday. "Don't give them one."

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While it is not the first time that the Trump administration has activated the National Guard to quell protests across the country, the U.S. president is doing so now despit

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