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(NewsNation) — Vice President JD Vance visited Los Angeles connected Friday day amid tensions with that city’s leaders and California Gov. Gavin Newsom implicit the Trump administration’s handling of migration enforcement and its response to section unrest.
Protests and riots erupted June 6 successful LA aft U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted sweeping workplace raids to apprehend migrants successful the U.S. illegally. As the struggle dragged on, President Trump federalized the California National Guard and ordered U.S. Marines to assistance support the peace. Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass accused Trump of inflaming tensions and usurping section control.
Vance's bureau said the vice president “will circuit a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center, a Federal Mobile Command Center, conscionable with enactment and Marines, and present little remarks." Vance, a erstwhile Marine, was expected to talk astatine 4 p.m. section time.
Newsom, a Democrat, has legally challenged Trump’s power of the National Guard, but a federal appeals court Thursday sided with the Republican president. Trump celebrated the determination connected his Truth Social platform, calling it a “BIG WIN.”
Newsom’s bureau said it was not looped successful connected Vance’s sojourn Friday.
“The Governor would invited the accidental to conscionable with the Vice President successful work to Californians. We’re ever unfastened to moving unneurotic — which makes it each the much disappointing that the White House chose not to prosecute with america straight up of the visit. We person yet to beryllium officially notified that the Vice President is adjacent coming,” a spokesperson said.
The protests successful LA and surrounding communities person been winding down successful caller days.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
