National Guard arrives in LA on Trump’s orders to quell immigration protests

Mr Trump has said he is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell the protests, which he called “a form of rebellion”.

US National Guard in central Los Angeles on Sunday (Eric Thayer/AP)

National Guard troops began arriving in Los Angeles on Sunday on orders from Donald Trump, in response to clashes in recent days between federal immigration authorities and protesters seeking to block them from carrying out deportations.

Members of California’s National Guard were seen mobilising at the federal complex in central Los Angeles that includes the Metropolitan Detention Centre, one of several sites that have seen confrontations involving hundreds of people in last two days.