Vice President JD Vance is heading to Los Angeles to meet troops deployed to quell protests against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions.
Vance’s trip on June 20 is the highest-level visit by a Trump administration official to a city that has become the epicenter of resistance against a White House campaign to deport millions of immigrants from the country.
A brief issued Friday by the vice president’s office said he will tour a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center and a Federal Mobile Command Center in Los Angeles.
Vance, a former Marine, is scheduled to meet with leadership and Marines and deliver brief remarks. He is also expected to hold a news conference.
Protests against ICE raids erupted in Los Angeles in early June. Nationwide “No Kings” protests against Trump’s aggressive expansion of executive power occurred on June 14 in cities across the country
A small minority of protesters in Los Angeles violently attacked federal law enforcement, and President Donald Trump responded by deploying the California National Guard, despite objections by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The Democrat-led city is home to millions of immigrants and is a melting pot of Latino, Asian and other cultures.
More: Trump using National Guard for deportation work could go into ‘uncharted territory’
Some 4.2 million people, or nearly a third of the 13 million residents of greater Los Angeles, are foreign-born, according to a Migration Policy Institute analysis of U.S. Census data.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Vance travels to LA to meet Marines deployed against protesters
