Protests took place in pockets across Los Angeles over several days after the Trump administration stepped up immigration control efforts in the city.

Newsom called the deployments reckless and “disrespectful to our troops” in a post on the social platform X.

The escalating conflict between Trump and the Democratic governor centers on immigration protests that shook Los Angeles over the weekend.

President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of an additional 2,000 National Guard members to respond to immigration protests in Los Angeles, according to the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson.

Trump will address U.S. soldiers on Tuesday as his administration deploys 700 Marines to Los Angeles in an escalating response to street protests over his immigration policies.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom asked a court to put an emergency stop to the military helping federal immigration agents, with some guardsmen now standing in protection around agents as they carried out...