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Demonstrators hit the streets again in L.A. after President Trump deployed the National Guard due to protests against ICE raids.
In the days before protests erupted in Los Angeles, the Trump administration stepped up its efforts to detain migrants — taking into custody those who arrived for routine check-ins while also conducting workplace raids that have sent waves of fear across Southern California and beyond.
President Trump ordered National Guard troops to the area after clashes over immigration-enforcement operations.
As the military presence ramped up in Los Angeles, communities are preparing for the largest protests against Trump since he took office.
Here is what happened on each day the protests against immigration detention operations in the Los Angeles area.
About 50 U.S. Marines squared off against hundreds of protesters in front of a federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, with the crowd yelling in unison for them to go home.
Los Angeles has been the sight of massive protests against ICE raids. Multiple people have been arrested and at least two journalists have been injured
Arrest made in Los Angeles after a man allegedly attacked CHP officers and set a patrol car on fire during a protest.
President Trump has said the city would be burning without military intervention, but the protests have been confined to a relatively small area.
Days of demonstrations against federal immigration raids in Los Angeles have fueled round-the-clock news coverage and a number of misleading social media posts, including unrelated videos being mislabeled or shared out of context.
The Los Angeles Police Department has declared all of downtown as an unlawful assembly, telling all demonstrators to leave the area immediately. "Downtown Los Angeles has been declared as an UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY. You are to leave the Downtown Area immediately," police said on X.