Nearly two months after President Trump took the extraordinary step of deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell public unrest over immigration raids, the Pentagon on Wednesday announced that it was withdrawing more than a thousand troops.

More than 1,000 National Guard troops were withdrawn from Los Angeles Thursday following an order from the Pentagon, easing a federal deployment tied to immigration enforcement protests. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Wednesday the recall of approximately 1,

The Pentagon is ending the deployment of all but 250 National Guard troops that remained in Los Angeles who were originally sent to the city to deal with protests over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.