Washington – The main military commander in charge of the troops deployed in Los Angeles to respond to protests against immigration raids asked the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth if 200 of those forces could be returned to the duty of forest fire fighting, two US officials said to News on Monday.

President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of approximately 4,000 Troops of the National Guard of California and 800 active service marines against the wishes of Governor Gavin Newsom at the beginning of June to respond to a series of protests against the immigration and customs’ immigration and compliance raids in Los Angeles.

The domestic deployment of federal troops raised multiple legal questions, even if the administration would seek to use emergency powers under the insurrection law to train those forces to carry out the police on US soil, which is not allowed to be done, except in rare circumstances. However, Marines are mainly assigned to the protection of federal buildings.

A military commander has asked the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, on the right, to deploy the troops that were on the deportation protests of Los Angeles.
A military commander has asked the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, on the right, to deploy the troops that were on the deportation protests of Los Angeles.

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The insurrection law has not been used. But in at least one circumstance, the Marines have temporarily arrested civilians in Los Angeles.

California has just entered the maximum forest fire season, and Newsom warned that the guard now has little personal due to the protest deployment of Los Angeles.

The main military commander of those troops, the head of the Northern US command. UU. Gregory Guillot, recently submitted a request to Hegseth to return 200 of the National Guard troops to the Joint Task Force Rattlesnake, which is the Forest Fire Unit of the National Guard of California, the officials said.

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The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details not yet publicly announced.

Trump has argued that “there has been an invasion” of migrants entering the country without legal permission. In the apogee of the deployments, some members of the Congress in their annual budget hearings with the secretary questioned whether he foresaw that the deployment extended throughout the country, Hegseth did not provide a direct response.

The president of the team leaders, General Dan Caine, at that time he told the legislators “I do not see any foreign people sponsored by the state that invaded, but I will take into account the fact that there have been some border problems.”