Posted on 06/07/25
| News Source: FOX News
The National Guard will be deployed to Los Angeles County after anti-ICE protests continued to escalate Saturday afternoon, Trump administration border czar Tom Homan told Fox News Saturday.
On Saturday, tear gas was deployed near Home Depot in Paramount, California, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were allegedly conducting a raid.
Following the raid, a violent protest broke out and several arrests were made for assault on a federal agent, according to U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael W. Banks.
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to call out state and local leadership's inaction.
"If Governor Favin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can't do their jobs, which everyone knows they can't, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!" Trump wrote.
Newsom responded on X, claiming the federal government "is moving to take over the California National Guard" and deploy 2,000 soldiers.
"That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions," Newsom wrote. "LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice. We are in close coordination with the city and county, and there is currently no unmet need. The Guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery. This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust."
He noted California is deploying additional California Highway Patrol troopers to maintain safety on Los Angeles highways "to keep the peace."
"It's not their job to assist in federal immigration enforcement," Newsom wrote in another post. "The federal government is sowing chaos so they can have an excuse to escalate. That is not the way any civilized country behaves."
Videos and photos provided to Fox News by a federal source showed Border Patrol agents' perspective from inside their vehicle as they attempted to leave the protest area.
Footage shows their vehicle being pelted with rocks, stones, and concrete, as the windshield shatters.
Federal sources stressed the violence at the Paramount riot could have killed an agent or caused a crash.
Banks shared a photo of a Border Patrol agent's bloody hand, which was injured by a rock flying through the windshield.
"ANY attack on our agents or officers will not be tolerated," Banks wrote on X. "You will be arrested and federally prosecuted."