(Washington) The American Department of Defense announced on Monday the withdrawal of the 700 navies deployed in Los Angeles during the demonstrations last month against the migration policy of President Donald Trump.
The American president had ordered in June the mobilization of 700 navies, an active body of the armed forces usually deployed abroad, in the face of demonstrations against arrests of immigrants by the Federal Immigration Police (ICE).
They came to reinforce the national guard soldiers also deployed, against the opinion of the Californian authorities, during these largely peaceful demonstrations, but some of which degenerated.
Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth ordered “the redeployment of the 700 navies whose presence had sent a clear message: non-compliance with the law will not be tolerated,” said Sean Parnell, spokesperson for Pentagon, in a statement.
“Their rapid response, relentless discipline and undeniable presence helped to restore order and enforce the rule of law,” he added.
The situation has since largely calmed in the second city in the country, where the night curfew was notably lifted on June 17.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass welcomed this withdrawal in a publication on the social network X, calling it “new victory” for the city.
The Pentagon had already announced last week the withdrawal of approximately half of the 4,000 soldiers of the National Guard deployed in Los Angeles.
California Governor Gavin Newsom once again called for their full withdrawal on Monday.
“The women and men of the California National Guard deserve better than continuing to serve puppets in Trump’s political theater,” the Democrat said in a statement.
“There has never been a need to deploy the army against civilians in Los Angeles,” he added.
The deployment of the National Guard without the approval of the Governor of the State-who also has authority over this reserve military body-was a first since 1965 in the United States.
Los Angeles is in the collimator of Donald Trump, which he accuses of protecting migrants without legal status from the intervention of the federal immigration police.
The American president has made the fight against illegal immigration an absolute priority, evoking an “invasion” of the United States by “criminals from abroad” and communicating abundantly on the expulsions of immigrants.
