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Marines given power to detain rioters as anti-ICE protest carnage spreads across US & Texas deploys Guard after protests
Trump vs California
Despite the carnage flooding the streets, California's government has said they have the situation under control.
Governor Gavin Newsom even accused Trump of "inflaming tensions" by deploying the National Guard.
The pair have a long history of heated disputes over policy.
Newsom formerly requested Trump remove the guard members, which he called a "serious breach of state sovereignty".
Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass added the arrival of troops is a "dangerous escalation".
She said: "We do not want to play in to the [Trump] administration's hands."
"What we're seeing in Los Angeles is chaos provoked by the administration."
Trump fired back at California's government as he called them "incompetent".
Newsom and Trump reportedly spoke for 40 minutes by phone on Saturday, though details of their conversation have not been disclosed.
The deployment of troops marks the first time in six decades that a state's National Guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
