The Pentagon is set to send around 700 active-duty Marines to Los Angeles from southern California in response to protests against immigration authorities, as reported by three US officials on Monday. Simultaneously, California officials have taken legal action against the Trump administration, aiming to reverse the National Guard deployment.

President Donald Trump has instructed the Department of Defense to send an additional 2,000 California National Guard members to the Los Angeles area to assist US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amidst the ongoing protests in the city.

This significant deployment of 700 full-time professional military personnel, in addition to the existing National Guard troops, is expected to escalate tensions in a city with a large Latino population.

Here is an overview of Trump's decision to deploy National Guard troops to the immigration protests in Los Angeles: