“Deploying the National Guard is a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos.

“In addition to the recent ICE raids in Southern California and across our nation, it is part of the Trump Administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division,” she said, adding that the protests were “mostly peaceful” despite widespread destruction to ICE and Border Patrol vehicles, the injuring of ICE personnel, and the burning and looting of shops in downtown L.A.

“This Administration’s actions are not about public safety — they’re about stoking fear,” she went on to falsely claim.

The statement comes after Trump federalized some 2,000 California National Guard troops, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put another 500 U.S. Marines located nearby at Camp Pendleton on standby.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is running for California governor in