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California Attorney General Rob Bonta Challenges Military Deployment in Los Angeles

Published June 10, 2025 | Video Starts at 02:29

So that necessarily means they will be out in the field, in neighborhoods, in communities with ICE agents, protecting the ICE immigration enforcement operations and protecting those personnel. We believe that that with respect to the Marines is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. We have made a decision, and we have a law that requires civilian law enforcement on American soil and civilian areas, not military law enforcement. (02:29–02:35)

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Asserts that the deployment of Marines for civilian law enforcement violates the Posse Comitatus Act.

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