US Marines who are part of a military deployment ordered by President Donald Trump began arriving at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, positioning them miles away from the areas where protests spurred by immigration raids have taken place.

Gov. Gavin Newsom depicted military intervention in Los Angeles as the beginning of a broad effort by Trump to overturn political and cultural norms.

Hundreds of Marines arrived in the L.A. area, the U.S. Northern Command confirmed on Tuesday. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has said deploying them on U.S. soil was illegal.