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Can't be put to work abducting civilians if they're busy handing out food.
Can we make "defend the civilians picking up food from abduction and harassment by masked goons claiming to be ICE" part of their remit? And tell them to follow the same tactics of "grab and ziptie them first, then confiscate ID and claim it's fake"?
Not true.
Normally the National Guard in each state is under state control, under command of the state governor.
What the federal Executive Branch can do is "federalize" it, which shifts it to being under federal control.
When Trump has been doing his political theater deployments to "fight crime", he's been federalizing National Guard units, and then sending them to cities.
California is using the California National Guard here to distribute food. That's under state control.
If a unit gets federalized, it passes to federal control. So Trump can yank them off whatever the state has them doing. Them doing state work doesn't prevent them from being federalized.
There are state militias that can only be under state control that are not subject to federalization, but they're much-less significant than the National Guard, and in that case, you wouldn't need to order them to do something else to prevent federalization, because they couldn't be federalized anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_(United_States)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force
I didn't think that California actually had a state defense force, but apparently it does; there's an image right at the top of the the WP page of a California National Guard member being trained by a California state defense member.
Huh. Not very large, though, less than a thousand people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Guard
Compare to the California National Guard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_National_Guard