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June 7, 2025

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Trump invoked § 12406 to federalize California National Guard over governor's objection, labels LA protesters 'rebellion'

On June 7, 2025, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum invoking 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to call at least 2,000 California National Guard members into federal service, transferring command from Governor Gavin Newsom — who explicitly refused consent — to the Department of Defense. The memo labeled Los Angeles anti-ICE protesters as engaged in "a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States," a characterization that carried no factual or legal basis. Two days later, Trump expanded the deployment with an additional 2,000 National Guard troops and authorized 700 Marines from Twentynine Palms, the first domestic active-duty Marine deployment since the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

ICE agents stopped and arrested J.R.H.L. while he was walking to work in Wyandanch, New York

On June 7, 2025, ICE agents in Wyandanch, New York, stopped a man identified in court filings as J.R.H.L. while he was walking to work, arresting and detaining him without a judicial warrant for approximately two months. His arrest is one of eight named in the April 2026 class-action lawsuit Benitez v. DHS, which alleges ICE and CBP agents have conducted a systematic pattern of warrantless stops and arrests of Latino residents across New York based on race and ethnicity.

ICE arrested J.R.H.L. without a warrant while he walked to work in Wyandanch, New York, detaining him for approximately two months

On June 7, 2025, ICE agents stopped and arrested J.R.H.L., a Latino resident of Wyandanch, New York, without a warrant while he walked across a parking lot near his home on his way to work, according to a class action complaint filed April 8, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. J.R.H.L. spent approximately two months in ICE detention before being granted bond. The complaint, filed by the Legal Aid Society, NYCLU, Make the Road New York, and Covington and Burling, alleges ICE and CBP systematically target Latino New Yorkers for suspicionless stops and warrantless arrests in violation of the Fourth Amendment and federal immigration law.