The vice-president will meet with law enforcement and military leadership deployed by Donald Trump

JD Vance will visit marines in Los Angeles amid tensions over the administration’s crackdown on immigration.

The vice-president will meet with law enforcement and military leadership deployed by Donald Trump in the city to help control violent protests.

“Vice-president JD Vance will travel to Los Angeles, California, where he will tour a multi-agency federal joint operations centre, a federal mobile command centre, meet with leadership and Marines, and deliver brief remarks,” according to a readout.

The visit risks inflaming the already tense relationship between Gavin Newsom, the state’s governor, and the White House.

Mr Newsom and Mr Trump have been locked in a fierce war of words since the president seized control of California’s national guard and deployed 2,000 troops, as well as marines, to the streets of Los Angeles last week.

Gavin Newsom sued the Trump administration to stop the deployments - JOHN G MABANGLO

Thousands came out to protest recent Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. During demonstrations, masked protesters set fire to self-driving cars and threw rocks, fireworks and Molotov cocktails at police.

Several journalists were shot by officers using non-lethal rounds as they covered the protests, including a photographer employed by The Telegraph.

Mr Newsom claims the president inflamed the riots with his heavy-handed response, and sued the Trump administration to stop the deployments.

An appeals court on Thursday allowed Mr Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles.

The decision halts a ruling from a lower court judge who found Mr Trump acted illegally when he mobilised the soldiers despite opposition from Mr Newsom.

Police officers repeatedly shoot people with less-than-lethal munitions in Los Angeles - David McNew

The court said that while presidents don’t have unfettered power to seize control of a state’s guard, the Trump administration had presented enough evidence to show it had a defensible rationale for doing so and that Mr Newsom had no power to veto the president’s order.

Trump celebrated the decision on his Truth Social platform, calling it a “big win.”

“All over the United States, if our cities, and our people, need protection, we are the ones to give it to them should state and local police be unable, for whatever reason, to get the job done,” he added.

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