Newsom calls for Trump to rescind order deploying National Guard troops in LA

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday called for the Trump administration to rescind its order deploying National Guard troops in Los Angeles amid ongoing protests over federal immigration enforcement.

In a post on social media, Newsom described the deployment as “unlawful.”

“We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved,” the governor wrote. “This is a serious breach of state sovereignty – inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.”

The social media post included a letter from Newsom’s legal affairs secretary, David Sapp, to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Insisting that L.A. city and county law enforcement resources were sufficient to maintain order, Sapp wrote: “There is currently no need for the National Guard to be deployed in Los Angeles, and to do so in this unlawful manner and for such a lengthy period is a serious breach of state sovereignty that seems intentionally designed to inflame the situation, while simultaneously depriving the State from deploying these personnel and resources where they are truly required.”

Trump and Hegseth did not immediately respond to the letter.