White House Border Czar Tom Homan announced Saturday night that federal authorities were dispatching National Guard troops to Los Angeles as protests against immigration arrests escalated into violence, drawing sharp warnings from President Donald Trump.

“We’re gonna bring the National Guard in tonight, and we’re gonna continue doing our job,” Homan told Fox News. “We’re gonna push back on these people, and we’re gonna enforce the law.”

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents executed arrests of illegal migrants across the country, hitting the Los Angeles area intensively the last few days, street protests broke out and eventually developed into rioting Friday night.

The unrest broke out again Saturday afternoon and the White House moved to reinforce agents with troops while warning the Democratic leaders of California to step up and stop the violence or face consequences. 

"If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!” Trump wrote Saturday night on his Truth Social platform.