# Troops sent to Los Angeles-Housing

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 10, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406 "2025-06-10T02:12:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/142 "2025-06-12T18:19:35Z")

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Better have a plumber on standby.

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**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/143 "2025-06-12T20:36:04Z")

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Hey, they’re MARINES. Their shit don’t stink!

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/144 "2025-06-13T02:50:25Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> > [@hajario](#):
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> > I could make one phone call and have a slew of rental porta potties delivered in a few hours.
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> I don’t doubt it. These are easy problems to solve. Which tells you something about the people in charge, that they are still, in fact, not solving them.

Especially since I’m hearing and reading reports now saying that Trump et al. have been planning to do the National Guard plus Marines incursion into a blue city as soon as they got a pretext.

This is the only link for that I could Google up, and CNN is paywalling all but the headline and a line or two, so I don’t know more.

> **[Trump’s move to use military for immigration enforcement was months in the...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/politics/immigration-protests-military-national-guard)**
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> When President Donald Trump put 2,000 National Guard troops under his control on Saturday night and ordered them into Los Angeles, it was billed as an urgent response to quell protests. But it was also a move long in the making.

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