Protests over immigration raids pop up across U.S.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Donald Trump is “pulling a military dragnet” across Los Angeles during a brief public address on Tuesday.
Demonstrators hit the streets again in L.A. after President Trump deployed the National Guard due to protests against ICE raids.
Scenes of mayhem and violence have emerged from the protests in Los Angeles. Who are the people clashing with law enforcement and fueling the unrest?
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Los Angeles police have swiftly enforced a downtown curfew, making arrests moments after it took effect, deploying officers on horseback and using crowd control projectiles to break up a group of hundreds demonstrating against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
More than 60 people gathered in Corpus Christi on June 10 in solidarity with nationwide protests opposing immigration detentions.
Meanwhile, Governor Gavin Newsom asked a court to put an emergency stop to the military helping federal immigration agents, with some guardsmen now standing in protection around agents as they carried out arrests.
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Trump is begging for a fight on this. He knows what he’s doing so far is working with the American electorate," one data analyst noted
HOW WE GOT HERE: The protests erupted after Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Friday carried out raids in three locations across L.A., where dozens of people were taken into custody. Newsom called the raids “chaotic federal sweeps” that aimed to fill an “arbitrary arrest quota.”