Posted on 06/09/2025 2:40:45 PM PDT by V_TWIN
A US Marine battalion is being sent to Los Angeles to help maintain order as anti-ICE riots continued to rage across Southern California.
On Sunday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Marines to prepare for deployment to LA “if violence continues.”
On Monday, he made good on the promise, ordering 700 Marines from Twentynine Palms, California, to travel to LA.
The incoming marines will join the 300 National Guards troops already on the ground. President Trump ordered 2,000 members of the California National Guard to be ready to deploy in LA.
The incoming marines are expected to help relieve some of the guard members.
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That and most of the invaders work under the table for cash -especially construction - then plead poverty and collect all kinds of benefits, which the idiot government of California is happy to dole out, including Medi-cal which costs the state ≈ $12b.
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