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.

President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles to disperse protests that began in response to immigration raids, the White House said in a statement Saturday night.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat said in a post on X that the move from the Republican president was “purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.”