From PBS NewsHour.

Around 700 U.S. Marines will head to Los Angeles to help quell days of clashes between protesters and immigration officers, U.S. officials said Monday. They’ll join National Guard troops who were deployed to the city by President Donald Trump over the weekend. In a memo to the Pentagon and attorney general, Trump said he acted under a rarely used law because the demonstrations “constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States.” On social media, California Gov. Gavin Newsom objected, saying the guard’s presence would “escalate tensions" and "erode public trust." Newsom later said he planned to file a lawsuit against Trump. PBS News’ John Yang interviewed Democratic Rep. Nanette Barragán. Her congressional district includes Paramount, California, a heavily Latino city where immigration authorities conducted a raid outside a Home Depot. “This is more of the president manufacturing something that is not there,” Barragán told Yang. “He is acting like a dictator. … This is his mass deportation effort, which is not focused on fighting criminals. And I think that is one of the reasons you are seeing people protest. They are protesting mass deportation.”

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