Trump sends National Guard to Los Angeles amid chaos in the streets as protesters clash with ICE agents | 7 June 2025 | The Trump administration said 2,000 National Guard troops were headed to the city of Los Angeles on Saturday night amid a standoff between protesters and ICE agents. The dramatic move came amid rising tensions between mobs of activists who set fires and threw rocks at immigration authorities as raids targeting illegal migrants took place across the city. "We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight," Tom Homan, President Trump's point man on border security, said on Fox News on Saturday evening. Trump himself warned Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass to take charge of the situation in a post on his Truth Social. "If Governor Gavin 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. Federal agents clashed with angry protestors in the Los Angeles area for a second day Saturday, shooting flash-bang grenades into the crowd just after 4pm, shutting part of a freeway amid raids on illegal immigrants.