President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard is “an alarming abuse of power,” every Democratic governor in the country said in a joint statement.

Trump, in response to his administration’s ramping up of immigration enforcement actions around the Los Angeles area and the subsequent protests , deployed 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles. The move came despite Gov. Gavin Newsom objecting to the activation of the National Guard.

“President Trump’s move to deploy California’s National Guard is an alarming abuse of power,” the Democratic governors said in a joint statement .

“Governors are the commanders in chief of their National Guard, and the federal government activating them in their own borders without consulting or working with a sta

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