California’s two Democratic senators wrote that the deployments were unnecessary and potentially illegal, and that more information is needed given similar deployments elsewhere in the country.
The Trump administration has defended the deployments as legal and necessary in the face of mass protests over immigration enforcement efforts.
U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff have sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth requesting a detailed breakdown of military deployments to Los Angeles amid recent immigration enforcement protests in the city.
The two California Democrats wrote Monday that they wanted to know how thousands of National Guard troops and U.S. Marines were specifically used, whether and how they engaged in any law enforcement activity and how much the deployments