Pentagon confirms that 2,000 California National Guard members are being withdrawn from the mission to protect federal buildings and personnel that followed ICE protests.

Roughly half of the California National Guard troops placed under federal control and sent to Los Angeles are going home after five weeks.

National Guard troops assigned to duty in Los Angeles more than a month ago after protests over immigration enforcement raids are being released from federal duty in Southern California. The Guard members’ activation by the federal government in early June was a flashpoint between the Trump administration and local,