Trump's move to send the California National Guard to LA has sharply escalated tensions between the government and the state.

California leaders said yesterday that they would file a lawsuit against President Trump for deploying National Guard troops to Los Angeles as part of a crackdown on immigration. The lawsuit will argue that Trump’s order to the National Guard was illegal because he bypassed the governor of California,

President Trump said Monday that the city would have been “completely obliterated” if he had not deployed the National Guard.

The Pentagon has formally deployed about 700 U.S. Marines to Los Angeles as California officials filed a lawsuit Monday against U.S. President Donald Trump in response to the administration's extraordinary deployment of the U.

California asked a federal court to halt the Trump administration’s “illegal” deployment of the state’s National Guard and the US Marines in Los Angeles to quell unrest over the president’s immigration raids.

By Jane Ross, Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart and Brad Brooks LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military will temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles until more National Guard troops can arrive,