The troops are in addition to the 700 Marines being mobilized. City and state officials have said that sending in military forces would only escalate tensions, and crowds gathering downtown in the evening faced phalanxes of police officers and troops.
What other efforts tho
Mostly, an effort to shift public opinion against the federal attack on citizens, to in turn pressure Trump
I salute the effort but despair over the fact that the government has to be pressured to enforce the law.