Early Saturday morning, Los Alamitos residents who live next to the Joint Forces Training Base woke up to the sounds of National Guard service members participating in drills, learning techniques they will presumably need on the streets of southern California.
In a federally authorized effort that reportedly includes approximately 4,000 National Guard troops and 500 U.S. Marines, the base has become the hub of an ongoing effort to round up undocumented aliens and deport them.
Accordingly, the “federalized” effort has since put the base in lockdown mode, as routine access to non-military personnel is no longer authorized, according to U.S. Army public affairs…