The Trump administration announced Saturday it was deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles in response to large-scale protests that erupted Saturday following dozens of arrests Friday in citywide Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

Some 2,000 National Guardsmen will be deployed to Los Angeles to “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester,” the president’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt

President Donald Trump is calling in the big guns to de-escalate tensions in Los Angeles.Just hours after Trump border czar Tom Homan appeared on Fox News on Saturday to criticize Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass and tell the panel of The Big Weekend Show that Trump would be deploying the National Guard that evening,