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Protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, which began connected June 6 successful Los Angeles, person dispersed beyond the California city, crossed the United States.
This comes days earlier a subject parade scheduled connected Saturday successful Washington, DC, which marks the US Army’s 250th anniversary. More protests crossed the US are scheduled connected Saturday.
Here is what we cognize astir what is happening and where.
Why are determination protests successful LA?
On June 6, ICE carried retired migration enforcement raids successful LA, successful which uniformed ICE agents arrived astatine assorted sites successful LA successful groups of unmarked vehicles, arresting 44 people successful a military-style operation.
The cognition triggered protests successful LA connected the aforesaid day, and crowds rallied extracurricular a installation wherever immoderate of the detainees were believed to beryllium held. They were dispersed by police, but protests began again soon after.
US President Donald Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops into the metropolis connected June 8, a determination condemned arsenic an “illegal takeover” by California Governor Gavin Newsom, who past filed a suit to effort to forestall their deployment onto the metropolis streets. The adjacent day, Trump doubled the fig of progressive National Guard troops successful the metropolis to 4,000.
On Monday, Trump besides ordered 700 marines to beryllium deployed from the Twentynine Palms basal eastbound of Los Angeles, describing the metropolis arsenic a “trash heap” that was successful information of burning to the ground.
A national tribunal proceeding astir whether oregon not Trump tin legally deploy the National Guard and marines to assistance with migration raids successful LA is scheduled for Thursday.
Marines arrived successful the metropolis connected Tuesday. However, arsenic of Wednesday, they had inactive not completed training, The Hill reported, citing an unnamed US Northern Command official. The marines are present expected to articulation the National Guard troops connected the streets of LA connected Friday.
On Tuesday night, LA Mayor Karen Bass announced a curfew successful downtown LA, and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) made respective arrests.
A sixth time of protests continued connected Wednesday. These were mostly peaceful but featured occasional outbursts of violence.
Where person the protests dispersed to?
By June 9, protests against the ICE raids and Trump’s deployment of the subject had spilled implicit to respective different US cities successful solidarity with the LA protesters.
By Wednesday, protests had appeared successful 12 different cities crossed respective states. Here is the concern successful each city:
California
LA is not the lone metropolis successful California which is experiencing protests.
San Francisco
Soon aft the commencement of the LA protests, a peaceful protestation began successful San Francisco with demonstrators gathering extracurricular an ICE gathering connected fiscal hub Sansome Street successful the northbound of the city.
Local media reported that constabulary arrived successful riot cogwheel and made arrests.
On Sunday, June 8, San Francisco constabulary arrested astir 60 people, and declared the protestation an “unlawful assembly”.
On Monday, the San Francisco constabulary released a connection connected X, saying the demonstrations had been “overwhelmingly peaceful” but that “two tiny groups broke disconnected and committed vandalism and different transgression acts”. It said constabulary had made much arrests, without specifying the fig of radical arrested. Local media reports suggest the fig could beryllium supra 150.
Local media reported that ICE agents were besides arresting migrants successful San Francisco. The city’s mayor, Democrat Daniel Lurie, shared this quality connected X connected Monday, saying: “I person been briefed connected the ongoing migration enforcement actions taking spot downtown.”
Lurie added: “I person been and volition proceed to beryllium wide that these national migration enforcement tactics are intended to instil fear, and they marque our metropolis little safe.”
He stated the constabulary unit would not beryllium progressive successful making migration arrests. “Under our city’s longstanding policies, section instrumentality enforcement does not enactment successful national migration enforcement. Those are our policies, and they marque our metropolis safer.”
On Tuesday, 200 protesters rallied extracurricular the San Francisco Immigration Court. Protests were besides reported successful the adjacent metropolis of Oakland.
A demonstrator holds up a motion successful beforehand of constabulary during a protestation against national migration sweeps astatine the ICE gathering successful San Francisco, California, connected June 8, 2025 [Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters]Santa Ana
On Monday, protests broke retired successful Santa Ana successful Orange County, a mostly Mexican-American metropolis conscionable southbound of LA.
The protests broke retired pursuing reports of ICE raids successful the city.
Local media reported that respective 100 radical were protesting extracurricular the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and court.
The Santa Ana Police Department released a connection connected X saying it was alert of the migration enforcement actions and would not enactment successful them.
However, the constabulary section posted different connection connected X aboriginal connected Monday saying: “When a peaceful objection escalates into rocks, bottles, mortars, and fireworks being utilized against nationalist work personnel, and spot is destroyed, it is nary longer a lawful assembly. It is simply a usurpation of the law.” Local media reported that respective arrests were made.
Police main Robert Rodriguez said peaceful protesters would beryllium protected but urged residents not to enactment successful convulsive protests oregon vandalism. “Those who enactment successful unlawful activities volition beryllium held accountable to the fullest grade of the law.”
On Tuesday, National Guard troops were deployed to Santa Ana and clashes with protesters were reported.
Washington State
Protests person breached retired successful Seattle, Washington State’s astir populous city.
Seattle
About 50 protesters gathered extracurricular the migration tribunal successful downtown Seattle connected Tuesday.
On Wednesday, hundreds of protesters marched downtown from Capitol Hill. According to the Seattle Police Department, this objection was mostly peaceful, but immoderate individuals acceptable occurrence to a dumpster, which prompted constabulary intervention.
Several clashes were besides reported betwixt protesters and the police, who arrested 8 radical for battle and obstruction.
Spokane
Protests besides broke retired successful Spokane, a metropolis towards the eastbound broadside of Washington State.
The constabulary arrested much than 30 protesters and dispersed the assemblage utilizing capsicum balls, Spokane constabulary main Kevin Hall told a quality conference.
Mayor Lisa Brown imposed a nighttime curfew successful the city, which was acceptable to past until 5am (12:00 GMT) connected Thursday.
Texas
Protests person breached retired successful respective cities successful Texas. Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott wrote connected X connected Tuesday: “Texas National Guard volition beryllium deployed to locations crossed the authorities to guarantee bid & order. Peaceful protestation is legal. Harming a idiosyncratic oregon spot is amerciable & volition pb to arrest.”
San Antonio
On Tuesday, Abbott deployed the National Guard up of protests successful San Antonio. The city’s mayor, Democrat Ron Nirenberg, said connected Wednesday that helium had not been informed successful beforehand astir the National Guard deployment and had not requested it.
More than 400 protesters gathered extracurricular the metropolis hallway connected Wednesday successful a mostly peaceful protest.
Austin
Hundreds of protesters gathered connected Monday betwixt the Texas State Capitol gathering and a national gathering which holds an ICE unit office.
More than a twelve radical were arrested, Abbott wrote successful an X post. The constabulary utilized teardrop state and capsicum spray to disperse protesters. Some protesters threw rocks astatine officers and graffitied a national building, according to section media reports.
Protesters besides gathered successful the Texas cities of Dallas and Houston.
Denver, Colorado
Protesters gathered extracurricular the Colorado State Capitol successful Denver connected Tuesday. Police said they arrested 18 radical erstwhile protesters tried to transverse Interstate 25, a road that runs done New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming.
Chicago, Illinois
On Tuesday, thousands of protesters gathered adjacent an migration centre successful Chicago and marched downtown, blocking a plaza.
Some 17 radical were arrested, according to the constabulary and immoderate clashes betwixt protesters and constabulary were reported. On the aforesaid day, a 66-year-old pistillate was treated for a fractured limb aft she was deed by a car that drove done the protest. No different injuries person been reported.
Omaha, Nebraska
On Tuesday morning, migration authorities raided a nutrient accumulation works successful Nebraska’s Omaha city, taking dozens of workers distant with them successful buses.
Local media reported that astir 400 radical protested against this raid connected Tuesday on the 33rd and L streets.
Boston, Massachusetts
On Monday, hundreds of radical gathered extracurricular Boston City Hall, calling for the merchandise of commercialized national person David Huerta, who was arrested during the LA protests. Huerta was released connected Monday day connected a $50,000 bond. However, helium remains charged with conspiracy to impede an officer, a felony which could effect successful a maximum of six years successful prison, according to the bureau of the US Attorney.
New York
Thousands of radical protested successful Lower Manhattan successful New York City connected Tuesday. The protesters rallied adjacent an ICE installation and national courts.
On Tuesday, New York constabulary took 86 radical into custody. Some 34 of them were charged, portion the remainder received a transgression tribunal summons. The constabulary took much radical into custody connected Wednesday, but did not specify however many.
Law enforcement officers clash with demonstrators and detain them during a protestation against national migration sweeps adjacent to the US migration tribunal astatine the Jacob K Javits Federal Building successful New York City connected June 11, 2025 [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
On Tuesday afternoon, astir 150 radical gathered extracurricular the Federal Detention Center and marched betwixt the centre and ICE’s office successful the city.
After a radical defied constabulary orders to disperse from a large road, 15 radical were arrested.
Washington, DC
Demonstrators marched past the Justice Department gathering successful the US superior connected Monday. The protesters were calling for the merchandise of national person David Huerta. There person been nary reports of unit oregon arrests.
Will much protests instrumentality place?
Yes. On Saturday, protests opposing Trump’s policies successful wide are planned successful astir 2,000 locations from parks to cities to tiny towns.
They volition coincide with a subject parade successful Washington, DC, commemorating the US army’s anniversary, and with Trump’s 79th birthday. No protests are planned successful Washington, DC.
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