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US judge hears if Trump team broke law during LA Ice protests

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US marines and national guards stand in line at the entrance of the Metropolitan detention center in Los Angeles, California, on 4 July. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday began hearing evidence and arguments on whether the Trump administration violated federal law when it deployed national guard soldiers and US marines to Los Angeles after protests over immigration raids this summer.

The Trump administration federalized California national guard members and sent them to the second-largest US city over the objections of the California governor, Gavin Newsom, and city leaders, after protests erupted on 7 June when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers arrested people at multiple locations.

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