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The Guardian - US
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Dani Anguiano

Trump’s LA national guard deployment cost taxpayers $120m, Newsom says

Members of national guard outside building
California national guard troops in Los Angeles in June. Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters

Donald Trump’s deployment of the national guard in Los Angeles in response to protests in the city over immigration raids cost taxpayers nearly $120m, the California governor’s office said on Thursday.

The US president sent 2,000 national guard troops into the city in June amid clashes between federal immigration agents and protesters. This week a judge ruled that dispatching the military to accompany authorities on immigration enforcement operations violated federal law.

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