GOP Sen. Tom Cotton defended the language he used in his WSJ op-ed calling for President Trump to send in the troops to Los Angeles to help with the anti-ICE riots.

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to maintain his deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles amid protests over stepped-up immigration enforcement, temporarily pausing a lower court ruling that blocked the mobilization.

Judge Charles Breyer ordered the administration to return control of the National Guard to the California governor, but an appeals court stayed the extraordinary decision Thursday night.

A federal judge ruled Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard during the ICE riots was illegal and ordered control returned to Governor Gavin Newsom.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is promising to move forward with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.