Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is promising to move forward with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles despite the waves of unrest.

When President Donald Trump put 2,000 National Guard troops under his control on Saturday night and ordered them into Los Angeles, it was billed as an urgent response to quell protests. But it was also a move long in the making.

The White House wants the national guard to play a bigger role in immigration enforcement, Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said in an interview Thursday.

President Donald Trump in recent days has sent thousands of National Guard troops and 700 active duty Marines to quell Los Angeles-area protests over immigration enforcement actions, despite the objections of Democratic Gov.

Walz, who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2024, blasted the Trump administration’s “cruel and misguided immigration policies.” Minnesotans are “angry that the federal government has been snatching people up” and detaining them “without a shred of due process,” he added.

The Trump administration must pull back on its use of military troops in Los Angeles to deal with protests over the president’s immigration raids, according to a federal judge.

Louisiana's GOP-dominated Legislature passed a package of bills this week that were designed to aid in federal crackdowns on migrants suspected of entering the country illegally.