Overview
- House Resolution 516, authored by Rep. Young Kim and backed by California’s Republican delegation, was approved on June 27 by a 215–195 vote
- The measure outlines arson, looting, vandalism, rock‐throwing and assaults on federal and local peace officers during early-June anti-ICE protests
- All 195 opposing votes came from Democrats, while seven moderates from swing districts joined Republicans in support
- Critics including Rep. Nanette Díaz Barragán and Gov. Gavin Newsom argued the deployment of about 5,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines under Title 10 aggravated unrest
- The vote caps a two-week conflict that began with ICE raids detaining over 100 migrants and prompted California’s legal bid under the Posse Comitatus Act to block federal troop deployments