Latest news and live updates as over 200 arrested in L.A. and National Guard to be deployed in Texas as rallies continue nationwide

U.S. President Donald Trump says he sent in the National Guard and Marines to "liberate" Los Angeles from the violence of protesters, but some residents of Little Tokyo, a neighborhood hit hardest by the unrest say "no thanks" Mr President.

President Trump’s assertions that federal troops have saved the city from destruction did not appear to reflect reality.

In Austin, 12 people were arrested Monday during a protest in which officers were hit by rocks and other missiles and police used tear gas to disperse a crowd making its way to the J.J. Pickle Federal Building, which houses an ICE office.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Donald Trump is “pulling a military dragnet” across Los Angeles during a brief public address on Tuesday.

By Brad Brooks, Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Dietrich Knauth LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Several U.S. cities braced for protests on Wednesday against President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration raids, as parts of the country's second largest city Los Angeles spent the night under curfew in an effort to quell five days of unrest.

President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to California following escalating violence among some anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles.

The U.S. government has deployed National Guard and Marines in the city where police have used rubber bullets and tear gas — a repeat of June 2013 scenes that flared in Rio de Janeiro three years before the Brazilian city hosted the Olympics.

Hegseth was angered by his exclusion and resigned from the Guard. That experience remains with him as he attempts to reshape the military, and its role in society, in line with Trump's worldview. As he has written: “My trust for this Army is irrevocably broken.”

The National Guard has been deployed to Los Angeles in the past in response to civil disorder and natural disasters.

President Donald Trump’s decision to federalize the California National Guard in response to protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles is “wrong,” Gov. Maura