President Donald Trump’s administration is ordering an additional 2,000 members of the California Army National Guard to the Los Angeles area under federal command, the Pentagon announced late Tuesday.
The deployment of additional soldiers was ordered despite the fact that demonstrations against federal immigration enforcement raids across the city have largely dissipated.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told CNBC Wednesday that there had not been any arrests related to protests in the city since Saturday night.
Mayor Karen Bass lifted the city’s nighttime curfew on Tuesday.
The latest deployment brings the total number of federal troops currently deployed to the L.A. area to 4,800. Of these, 700 are U.S. Marines and 4,100 are California Army National Guard.
