Court weighs legality of troop deployment in LA

The US government's use of National Guard troops in Los Angeles to protect officers carrying out President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown was illegal and should be ended, a lawyer for the state of California told a federal judge on Tuesday.

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The lawyer said evidence presented from the landmark trial that began on Monday showed that soldiers had violated a 19th-century law that bars the military from civilian law enforcement.

"The government wanted a show of military force so great that any opposition to their agenda was silenced," said the lawyer, Meghan Strong of the California Attorney General's Office.