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Parts of Downtown Los Angeles were nether a nighttime curfew connected Tuesday aft LA Mayor Karen Bass declared a section exigency to “stop the vandalism” and “to halt the looting”.
The protests began connected Friday aft United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities conducted a bid of migration raids crossed the city.
The adjacent day, US President Donald Trump issued an enforcement bid to deploy 2,000 National Guard troops to LA without California Governor Gavin Newsom’s consent. Trump ordered the deployment of 700 Marines and an further 2,000 National Guard forces connected Monday.
This provoked an ongoing conflict betwixt authorities and national authorities, with Newsom calling Trump’s bid a “blatant maltreatment of power” and Mayor Bass describing the deployment arsenic an “intentional effort to sow chaos”.
On the national side, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem referred to Los Angeles arsenic a “city of criminals” and accused section officials of inaction.
(Al Jazeera)How the protests unfolded
Friday, June 6
Morning: ICE conducted coordinated raids crossed LA, targeting a Home Depot, garment factories, warehouses and thoroughfare vendor locations. At slightest 44 individuals were arrested for “immigration violations”. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said they included pack members and criminals.
The raids rapidly triggered protests and demonstrations blocked entrances and exits for the Edward R Roybal Federal Building successful Downtown LA, wherever the detainees were being processed.
Afternoon: David Huerta, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), 1 of the largest and astir influential labour unions successful the country, was arrested extracurricular a garment warehouse wherever protesters had gathered to reason an migration raid. Huerta was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Downtown LA, wherever protesters assembled successful solidarity.
Evening: The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) declared the country an unlawful assembly, deployed teardrop gas, issued tactical alerts and made respective arrests.
Los Angeles Police Department officers determination to disperse a protestation aft national migration authorities conducted an cognition connected Friday, June 6, 2025, successful Los Angeles [Jae C Hong/AP Photo]Saturday, June 7
Morning: The adjacent morning, reports emerged of much migration raids, this clip extracurricular a Home Depot store successful Paramount, astir 26km (16 miles) southeast of downtown LA, wherever time labourers often stitchery successful hopes of being hired for short-term jobs.
There, protesters clashed with information forces, who utilized teardrop state and flashbang grenades to disperse the crowd.
(Al Jazeera)Afternoon: The protests escalated arsenic demonstrators blocked streets, threw stones and acceptable a conveyance connected fire. The LA County Sheriff declares the gathering an unlawful assembly and uses teardrop state to disperse the crowd.
BREAKING: ICE raid and assemblage absorption successful beforehand of Home Depot successful Paramount, California. pic.twitter.com/WdM1Gr93Wi
— Jeremy Lindenfeld (@jeremotographs) June 7, 2025
Evening: President Trump orders astatine slightest 2,000 National Guard troops to beryllium deployed to Los Angeles, federalising them nether Title 10 of the US Code, which allows the national authorities to mobilise National Guard units without the consent of authorities governors.
It marked the archetypal clip since 1965 that a president had deployed National Guard troops to a authorities without a governor’s request.
(Al Jazeera)Sunday, June 8
Morning: About 300 National Guard troops get successful downtown LA, Paramount, and neighbouring Compton to unafraid national sites, prompting choler and fearfulness among galore residents.
On the astir aggravated time of demonstrations truthful far, thousands of protesters gathered successful downtown LA adjacent the Metropolitan Detention Center, wherever they were met by National Guard troops deployed to enactment migration officials.
(Al Jazeera)Afternoon: Large crowds march from City Hall to the Federal Detention Center. The LAPD erstwhile again issues dispersal orders and begins arrests.
Protesters concisely artifact sections of the 101 Freeway, disrupting 1 of Los Angeles’ busiest highways. Some demonstrators besides acceptable occurrence to respective self-driving cars, escalating tensions further. In response, authorities deployed teardrop gas, rubber bullets and flashbang grenades to disperse the crowd.
A antheral holds signs arsenic Waymo autonomous vehicles burn, arsenic protesters clash with instrumentality enforcement successful the streets surrounding the national gathering during a protestation pursuing national migration operations successful Los Angeles, California, connected June 8, 2025 [Ringo Chiu/AFP]Monday, June 9
Morning: After a comparatively calm night, the 4th time begins with renewed ICE raids targeting workplaces crossed Southern California, including successful suburban areas similar Santa Ana and Paramount.
Thousands stitchery for a ample rally astatine Grand Park successful downtown Los Angeles, organised by the SEIU. The demonstration, joined by section officials and members of Congress, calls for an extremity to the raids, the contiguous merchandise of the SEIU’s Huerta, and the withdrawal of National Guard troops from the city. Huerta is aboriginal released connected a $50,000 bond.
People be a rally against the detention of SEIU California and SEIU-USWW national president David Huerta amid national migration sweeps, with Los Angeles City Hall successful the background, successful downtown Los Angeles, connected June 9, 2025 [David Ryder/Reuters]Afternoon: The authorities of California files a suit against President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, arguing that the Title 10 deployment of National Guard troops unlawfully oversteps authorities sovereignty.
Trump doubles the fig of National Guard troops from 2,000 to 4,000, portion besides deploying 700 Marines successful a home deployment not seen successful decades.
Marines basal adjacent vehicles arsenic they hole to depart for Los Angeles connected June 9, 2025 [Handout/US Northern Command via X/Reuters]Evening: Protests proceed astir the national building, with a premix of peaceful rallies and sporadic clashes with police. Authorities deploy teardrop state and rubber bullets, and hundreds of arrests are reported passim the day.
Tuesday, June 10
The protests entered their 5th day, with demonstrations remaining mixed, galore peaceful, portion others progressive vandalism, looting, stone throwing and the usage of crowd-control measures.
Newsom and Bass continued to condemn the subject beingness arsenic amerciable and damaging, informing it tarnishes the city’s representation arsenic it prepares for large events similar the 2028 Olympics and the World Cup. A Pentagon authoritative estimated that the deployment of Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles volition outgo astir $134m.
In this representation taken from video, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass gives a quality league pursuing days of unrest, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, successful Los Angeles [ABC7 Los Angeles via AP]Despite mounting criticism, President Donald Trump doubles down connected his determination to deploy the National Guard and Marines to face protesters successful Los Angeles.
Mayor Bass announces a curfew for a information of the downtown area, effectual from 8pm connected Tuesday until 6am connected Wednesday. The curfew covers an country of astir 20sq km (7.7sq miles).
The metropolis of Los Angeles astatine a glance
The authorities of California has the largest Latino oregon Hispanic colonisation of immoderate US state, some successful full numbers and arsenic a stock of its population, with astir fractional of its residents identifying arsenic specified successful the 2024 Census.
Los Angeles is the United States’s second-largest city, aft New York City, with a colonisation of immoderate 3.8 cardinal residents wrong its metropolis limits. The metropolis is location to much than 1.35 cardinal migrants, which means that 1 successful each 3 residents is simply a migrant, according to the LA metropolis authorities successful 2024.
What are sanctuary cities?
Los Angeles is 1 of galore self-claimed sanctuary cities crossed the US, which bounds their practice with national migration enforcement, peculiarly US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to support undocumented citizens from detention and deportation.
Sanctuary laws disagree from spot to place. Some prohibition asking astir migration status, portion others lone garbage to clasp radical connected ICE detainers. Being successful a sanctuary metropolis oregon authorities does not mean idiosyncratic is harmless from deportation. ICE tin inactive run and apprehension radical successful sanctuary jurisdictions.
(Al Jazeera)Nationwide protests against ICE deportations
The astir caller protests successful LA are portion of a bid of continuing demonstrations by civilian nine and assorted groups opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) owed to the detention and deportation of assemblage members.
According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), an organisation that tracks governmental unit and protests worldwide, astatine slightest 2,112 demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement person occurred since January 2025.
These protests are shown connected the representation below.
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