New Delhi, June 10 -- Pentagon is expected to deploy about 700 active-duty Marines to Los Angeles from southern California in the wake of protests against immigration authorities, three US officials said Monday. Meanwhile, California officials sued US President Donald Trump, seeking to roll back the administration's National Guard deployment.

According to reports, Trump has ordered the Department of Defense to deploy an additional 2,000 California National Guard members to the Los Angeles area to support US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amid ongoing protests in the city.

The extraordinary mobilisation of 700 full-time professional military personnel - who join hundreds of National Guard troops already there - looked likely t...