About 500 of the Guard troops deployed to the protests have been trained to accompany agents on immigration operations, he said. Sherman initially said National Guard troops had temporarily detained some civilians.

A federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump's takeover of the California National Guard was illegal, and ordered the president to return control back to Gov. Gavin Newsom. It's a rare victory for the Golden State amid the Trump administration's drastically escalating response to protests against ICE raids throughout Los Angeles.