Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for his handling of the Los Angeles protests that have ignited over the Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Advocates are calling on Governor Gavin Newsom to permanently close the state's deactivated prisons before they can be repurposed by the federal government as immigration detention centers, in order to protect California's progress on decarceration and prevent ICE expansion.

The president deployed 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles in response to anti-ICE protests.

Newsom and Trump have been a tit-for-tat fight over the past several days regarding Trump's use of the National Guard in Los Angeles in response to ant-ICE protests in the city

After eight years as lieutenant-governor, in 2018 he was elected to California’s top job. He breezed past a recall effort in 2021 (which tried to capitalise on Mr Newsom’s visit to the French Laundry, a posh restaurant in Napa Valley, during covid lockdowns) and won re-election in 2022.

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have both opposed deployment of the National Guard and Marines to the city.

The governor highlighted his work with ICE in California but said that President Trump was “trying to gin things up to create problems” at protests.