700 active-duty Marines will be leaving Los Angeles, Pentagon confirms

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The 700 active-duty Marines who were deployed to Los Angeles arsenic a effect of past month's protests against migration enforcement crossed the portion volition beryllium leaving, the Pentagon announced Monday.

Last week, the Pentagon announced that 2,000 federalized California National Guardsmen were besides being moved out of the city. That's fractional the magnitude that was primitively sent.

When the protests against national migration enforcement operations started successful aboriginal June, 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines were deployed to the metropolis by the Trump medication to support national buildings.

Marines and constabulary basal extracurricular the Metropolitan Detention Center connected Friday, July 4, 2025 successful Los Angeles.

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Sean Parnell, the Pentagon's main spokesman, issued the pursuing connection to ABC News.

"With stableness returning to Los Angeles, the Secretary has directed the redeployment of the 700 Marines whose beingness sent a wide message: lawlessness volition not beryllium tolerated. Their accelerated response, unwavering discipline, and unmistakable beingness were instrumental successful restoring bid and upholding the regularisation of law. We're profoundly grateful for their service, and for the spot and professionalism they brought to this mission."

During their abbreviated deployment, immoderate of the Marines were stationed extracurricular of national buildings successful the area, but astir of them were surviving connected a subject basal successful Orange County.

"They volition beryllium leaving Los Angeles. They were ne'er needed successful the archetypal place. It was a misuse of our troops," L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said.

Ever since they were archetypal deployed, Bass had been pushing the White House to region the Marines and the California National Guard.

"The Marines that were ne'er needed here, that ne'er played a relation successful assemblage control," Bass said. "They're not trained to bash that. They're trained to termination the force connected overseas lands. The force is not Angelenos."