JD Vance boasts Trump will call in National Guard to quell riots again if he has to following appeals court victory
President Trump will not hesitate to send in the National Guard “again” after an appeals court ruled the commander in chief can maintain control of thousands of troops he deployed to the City of Angeles in response to anti-ICE riots, Vice President JD Vance declared Friday.“If you enforce your own laws and if you protect federal law enforcement, we’re not going to send in the National Guard — because it’s unnecessary,” Vance said during remarks outside a federal building in Los Angeles.
“But if you let violent rioters burn great American cities to the ground, then of course we’re going to send federal law enforcement in to protect people.”“The president’s going to do it again if he has to, but hopefully it won’t be necessary,” the vice president warned.Vance noted that the “rioting has gotten a lot better” since Trump dispatched active-duty service members to LA, but he warned that local officials are “worried that it’s going to flare back up.”Los Angeles has become the epicenter of anti-ICE riots in response to Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Trump deployed troops to the City of Angeles to tamp down clashes between rioters and federal authorities seeking out criminal illegal migrants.The vice president toured a multi-agency federal joint operations center and an FBI mobile command center currently being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials during his trip to Los Angeles. Vance was briefed by leaders of the 14 different agencies — including ICE, Department of Defense, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles Police Department and California Highway Patrol — using the operations center to coordinate immigration enforcement actions in LA. The veep also met with some of the 200 active-duty Marines deployed to the city and tasked with protecting federal property and federal personnel.They will be joined by an additional 500 Marines and 2,000 more Guard...