L.A. unrest live updates: 700 Marines will deploy as immigration protests continue

Protesters in the middle of an intersection faced off with law enforcement officers who used less-lethal rounds in an attempt to disperse the crowd today.

The sound of small explosions and popping from officers' less-lethal launchers could be heard as protesters began to retreat from the intersection of Los Angeles and Temple streets near the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building. A handful had been observed throwing objects at officers.

Some protesters ran, while others put up their hands, some holding up two fingers in a seeming sign of peace.

Police declared an unlawful assembly in the area, meaning anyone who remains can be arrested. Officers were seen lined up, pushing the crowd back.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that the state’s position is clear and that state officials believe Trump’s decision to federalize the National Guard was unlawful.

“The California National Guard is a joint operation, and the commander-in-chief, most of the time, is the governor of California,” Bonta said on MSNBC, adding that only in cases of “rare and infrequent” conditions like rebellions or invasions can the president deploy the National Guard.

“The president can do many lawful things, but he cannot do unlawful things, and what he has tried to do here is exercise authority he doesn’t have,” Bonta said.

He added that Trump federalized the guard as wildfire season in California is in full swing and that the state’s troops, who are trained to combat wildfires, are pulled away from that mission.

“What the Trump administration has done here is unnecessary. It’s not constructive. It’s harmful. It has only led to inflame tensions and provoke, as opposed to calm and create peace. And most importantly, it’s unlawful,” Bonta said.

Electric vehicles were left to burn in the Los Angeles unrest in some cases because their batteries are hard to reach with water and take a lot of it, a spokesperson for the fire department said today.

The fire department responded to “multiple vehicle fires” during this weekend’s unrest, Public Information Officer Erik Scott said in a video on X. Among the vehicles that were torched were Waymo autonomous electric vehicles, video showed.

“Due to the design of EV battery systems, it’s often difficult to apply the water directly to the burning cells, especially in a chaotic environment, and in some cases, allowing the fire to burn is the safest tactic,” Scott said.

It also requires a large amount of water, Scott said, and the runoff must be managed.

The lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles become dangerous when they are burned, he said, including releasing highly toxic hydrogen fluoride gas — dangerous to the lungs when it is breathed in and able to be absorbed through the skin.

It can cause “serious internal harm,” Scott said.

The American Civil Liberties Union today called the deployment of active-duty troops an unnecessary escalation and a move by the Trump administration that raises serious constitutional concerns.

“Every move President Trump has made since Saturday night has been escalatory and inflammatory,” Hina Shamsi, director of the National Security Project at the ACLU, said in a statement.

“The idea that these Marines have anywhere near the kind of training required to police protests while respecting people’s constitutional rights would be laughable if the situation weren’t so alarming,” Shamsi said.

“From the get-go, the Trump administration’s deployment of troops into the streets of California, over the governor’s objection, has raised serious constitutional concerns,” Shamsi said. “This latest move only increases legal and ethical jeopardy for troops, and further endangers the rights of the people of Los Angeles.”

Police Chief Jim McDonnell said today his agency has not received any formal notice that Marines would be deployed in Los Angeles, but he said the police force has the experience when it comes to large protests.

“The LAPD has not received any formal notification that the Marines will be arriving in Los Angeles. However, the possible arrival of federal military forces in Los Angeles absent clear coordination presents a significant logistical and operational challenge for those of us charged with safeguarding this city,” McDonnell said in a statement.

“The Los Angeles Police Department, alongside our mutual aid partners, have decades of experience managing large-scale public demonstrations, and we remain confident in our ability to do so professionally and effectively,” he said.

McDonnell said his agency's priority is public and officer safety, and he urged "open and continuous lines of communication between all agencies to prevent confusion, avoid escalation, and ensure a coordinated, lawful, and orderly response during this critical time."

Hegseth made the deployment of Marines to Los Angeles official, saying on X that the 700 Marines mobilized to Camp Pendleton will be sent to defend federal resources.

"Due to increased threats to federal law enforcement officers and federal buildings, approximately 700 active-duty U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton are being deployed to Los Angeles to restore order," he said.

U.S. Northern Command said in an earlier statement that the Marines would come from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center and were being sent to Camp Pendleton in San Diego County before probable deployment.

Twentynine Palms, in the California desert, is about 140 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Camp Pendleton, which has its main address in Oceanside, is about 90 miles south of downtown L.A.

Two Defense Department sources said the process of mobilizing — moving troops from Twentynine Palms to Oceanside, a distance of about 147 miles — would begin tonight.

Hegseth said the troops will defend federal agents amid protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.

"We have an obligation to defend federal law enforcement officers — even if Gavin Newsom will not," he said.

California’s attorney general has filed a promised lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s deployment of military troops in Los Angeles following protests and unrest.

The suit says that Trump exceeded his lawful authority and that he “used a protest that local authorities had under control to make another unprecedented power grab.”

Newsom is the legal commander-in-chief of the state’s National Guard, the suit argues, and he did not request their use. In fact, Newsom has criticized Trump’s ordered of troops as an attempt to “manufacture a crisis.”

The lawsuit says that under the legal statute, “when the President calls members of a State National Guard into federal service pursuant to that statute, those orders 'shall be issued through the governors of the States.'"

“Instead, Secretary Hegseth unlawfully bypassed the Governor of California, issuing an order that by statute must go through him,” Bonta wrote in the suit.

Bonta also argued that Trump’s action “contravenes core statutory and constitutional restrictions.”

“One of the cornerstones of our Nation and our democracy is that our people are governed by civil, not military, rule. The Founders enshrined these principles in our Constitution,” Bonta wrote.

Newsom said this afternoon that Trump is deploying 2,000 more National Guard troops to Los Angeles, on top of an initial 2,000.

"I was just informed Trump is deploying another 2,000 Guard troops to L.A.," he said on X.

"The first 2,000? Given no food or water. Only approx. 300 are deployed — the rest are sitting, unused, in federal buildings without orders," Newsom wrote.

"This isn’t about public safety. It’s about stroking a dangerous President’s ego," he continued. "This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops."

California's attorney general today filed a lawsuit challenging Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles, calling it an unprecedented power grab that exceeds his authority.

Newsom has accused Trump of using the National Guard "to manufacture a crisis."

Amid the protesters outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles today was a voice calling for peace.

Najee Gow, 27, is a Los Angeles resident from Portland, Oregon, who was at that city's raucous 2020 protests that emerged from the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis that spring.

Using a handheld loudspeaker, Gow urged fellow protesters today to remain peaceful and not "give Donald Trump what he wants."

Gow said protesters who turn to violence and vandalism feed Trump's strategy to paint Los Angeles as a city of crime while bolstering his use of the National Guard and, possibly, Marines to protect federal assets in the region.

Gow noted that Trump administration officials have threatened to arrest Newsom.

"I don't know what will happen if Marines set foot in L.A.," Gow said. "You know, like, if you arrest the governor, if you arrest the mayor, that is a decline of democracy, that is a dictatorship."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said today that Trump and the current Republican Party have “zero credibility” on law-and-order issues and are “intentionally trying to inflame” the situation.

Jeffries, D-N.Y., said that he supports the right of Americans to peacefully protest and that local authorities should hold those who engage in violence accountable.

Jeffries said Bass and Newsom are “managing a fragile situation that Donald Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans are intentionally trying to inflame.”

The LAPD’s Central Division, which covers downtown, declared a tactical alert shortly after 3 p.m.

“The City of Los Angeles has declared a Tactical Alert. All uniformed personnel are to remain on duty,” is said on X.

A tactical alert allows supervisors to keep officers past their shifts and maintain high levels of staffing in the event of emergencies or large incidents.

Ahead of the roughly 100 graduation ceremonies today and tomorrow, the Los Angeles Unified School District is carrying out plans to protect its estimated 7,500 undocumented students and their families amid ongoing federal immigration raids in Los Angeles and beyond, according to United Teachers Los Angeles, an LAUSD teachers’ union.

Superintendent Alberto Carvahlo said that security perimeters will be set up at every graduation site and that buses and bus sites are included in security plans.

“Every single graduation site is a protected site,” Carvalho said. “Any federal agency [that] may want to take action during these joyous times that we call graduation — not on our watch.”

United Teachers Los Angeles, the teachers union for the second-largest public school district in the country, says about 1 in 4 of the district's 30,000 immigrant students are undocumented.

Read the full story here.

Newsom continued a bitter back-and-forth with Trump today after U.S. Marines were mobilized in anticipation of duty in Los Angeles amid the region's ongoing protests.

Newsom said using Marines amid free speech displays by Americans on U.S. soil is "un-American."

"U.S. Marines have served honorably across multiple wars in defense of democracy," Newsom said. "They are heroes."

The mission in Los Angeles, should Marines be deployed, would be to protect federal personnel and resources, two Defense Department sources said. Under federal law, they would be prohibited from making arrests.

Still, using U.S. forces for a domestic situation is rare.

"They shouldn’t be deployed on American soil facing their own countrymen to fulfill the deranged fantasy of a dictatorial President," Newsom said on X this afternoon.

"This is un-American," he said.

Marching with protesters in Los Angeles today, Pastor Lucia Chappelle at Founders Metropolitan Community Church in Los Angeles said her message was a simple one.

"My message to ICE is: Leave us alone," she said, using a walker to join the crowd.

"I mean, you're talking about family people, you're talking about my neighbors, you're talking about people who have not hurt anyone — not hurt anyone," she said.

Chappelle also said the reality of Los Angeles, which has many immigrants, does not match the rhetoric of an "invasion" that is being spread.

"You can see we're not a mass of invading, marauding immigrants tearing up the city," she said. "We're people building this city — all of us are."

An estimated 700 Marines are being mobilized, moving from Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, about 140 miles east of Los Angeles, to Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, defense sources said.

The mobilization will put the troops closer to Los Angeles, where they could be deployed alongside National Guard troops to protect federal resources and personnel, two Defense Department sources said.

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, with its main address in Oceanside, is about 90 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

A few hundred peaceful protesters gathered today at Olvera Street, part of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, commemorated as the site where Los Angeles was founded.

The location emits a symbolism, no doubt, in the minds of some protesters, attaching history to contemporary demographics that have Los Angeles County roughly one-half Latino and three-fourths people of color.

The city's Latino roots reach to Olvera Street, where in 1769 Gaspar de Portola led a Spanish expedition north from San Diego and found an ideal place for a settlement.

Father Juan Crespi, who documented the expedition, described the location, now on the National Register of Historic Places, as the men "entered a very spacious valley, well-grown with cottonwood and alders, among which ran a beautiful river."

David Huerta, president of the California chapter of the Service Employees International Union, was released from federal custody on a $50,000 bond this afternoon after his first court appearance.

Huerta faces a federal charge of conspiracy to impede an officer, a felony, stemming from Friday's immigration raids.

The charges were not discussed during the hearing, and the court did not ask him to enter a plea.

A criminal complaint alleges that Huerta arrived on the scene of an immigration enforcement operation and, according to an undercover officer in the crowd, directed people to picket to prevent law enforcement vehicles from entering the property of a clothing warehouse.

Huerta later stood in front of a van to block it, and he was arrested after an officer tried to physically move him out of the way.

The SEIU said in a statement that Huerta was "peacefully bearing witness to a ruthless raid" when he was arrested.

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka said today that Trump’s decision to federalize California’s National Guard troops is “really dangerous.”

Baraka, who is running for governor of New Jersey, said he agreed with Newsom’s objection to activating the state’s National Guard to respond to protests in Los Angeles. 

“They are putting troops on the ground in these cities, and this is something that you don’t do, right?” Baraka told NBC News on the eve of the state’s gubernatorial primary, in which he is one of six candidates for the Democratic nomination. 

“In 1967, we experienced serious riots, rebellion from the National Guard being here on the street. People were shot in the street, shot in their buildings, lives were lost, property was destroyed,” Baraka added later. “So it’s just a really dangerous thing to do. And you really never get over that.”

Newsom's press office called the mobilization of U.S. Marines, an estimated 700 of whom are being moved to L.A. to support National Guard troops, "completely unwarranted."

"The level of escalation is completely unwarranted, uncalled for, and unprecedented," the office said on X.

The governor's office characterized the move as "mobilizing the best in class branch of the U.S. military against its own citizens."

It made a distinction between mobilizing the troops and deploying them, saying Marines are not being deployed but will be moved to L.A., where raucous protests over immigration enforcement have been ongoing since the weekend.

Deployment would be a final step in putting troops on the streets, as two sources in the U.S. Department of Defense said, to protect federal personnel and resources amid the protests.

A protester at a pro-union rally for immigrants said he showed up to send the message that families should not be "torn apart" by the ICE raids in Los Angeles and that "workers can go to work every day and not fear that they’re not gonna be able to see their families at the end of the day.”

“I think it improves us all to come out here today, to come out tomorrow and the next day to show a peaceful front, and to make sure that the right story that’s out there is that these families are being torn apart, and that this should stop, that ICE needs to leave, that the National Guard should stand down, and that we need to be able to be supporting our immigrant families and those communities,” Victor Sanchez, the executive director of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, told NBC News.

Sanchez, who is a native of Los Angeles and comes from an immigrant family, said watching the events of the last 72 hours in his city has been “heart-wrenching.”

“I think this is probably the start of a groundswell of activism and mobilization on behalf of the community and the moral imperative is here. I think people are standing up and are saying, ‘enough is enough,’” he said. “We have to continue to show up, not just for the larger context in terms of what we’re suffering with this administration, but for these families that are being locked up and deported without due process.”

New data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows immigration enforcement efforts, including arrests of those believed to be in the United States illegally, are up significantly.

ICE detention facilities are at capacity, even as the number of detainees is expected to grow. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says ICE arrested more than 2,000 people each day for much of last week.

The number of people in detention is now at 51,302, which is 30% higher than it was at the beginning of President Donald Trump's administration. ICE is funded to hold 41,500 detainees.

In May, there were 28,797 people booked into ICE facilities, the highest number since the second Trump Administration began. During the last two weeks of May, a total of 15,020 were held at ICE facilities. This figure represents people who were arrested by ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

ICE is using 44% more detention facilities, 155 in all, since the last days of President Joe Biden's term.

Of those in ICE detention, 56%, or 28,864, have criminal backgrounds, meaning they have either been convicted of a crime or have pending criminal charges, according to the data. The remaining 22,438 do not have criminal histories.

The Adelanto ICE Processing Center is the main ICE facility for the Los Angeles area and currently has 140 detainees, the data show. At the start of the Trump administration, it had just three detainees.

U.S. Marine Corps troops mobilized in Los Angeles will be tasked with defending federal property and personnel, two U.S. Department of Defense officials said.

An estimated 700 Marines from the U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms have been mobilized to assist National Guard troops and law enforcement in Los Angeles amid ongoing protests.

Twentynine Palms is in the desert, about 140 miles east of L.A.

According to the officials, the Marines will operate under three rules of force: self defense, defense of federal property and defense of federal personnel.

Those are the same rules of force for National Guard troops deployed under Trump's executive order in Los Angeles, where raucous protests have been ongoing.

Approximately 700 U.S. Marines have been mobilized to support the National Guard in protecting federal personnel and property in Los Angeles, according to two Department of Defense officials.

The troops are from the U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, which is in the desert about 140 miles east of Los Angeles.

The mobilization is temporary until more California National Guard troops arrive to L.A., the officials said.

Mobilization is separate from full deployment, so it's not clear if the Marine Corps troops will hit the streets of L.A. immediately or remain on standby.

President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of California National Guard troops to protect federal law enforcement as protesters angry over immigration raids hit the streets over the weekend.

A work crew removes a charred driverless Waymo vehicle today that was burned during last night's protests. Waymo began offering robotaxi rides across 80-plus square miles of Los Angeles County last year.

Trump wrote on Truth Social today, "If they spit, we will hit" while addressing ICE protests in Los Angeles and called the protesters "insurrectionists."

"The Insurrectionists have a tendency to spit in the face of the National Guardsmen/women, and others. These Patriots are told to accept this, it’s just the way life runs. But not in the Trump Administration," he wrote. "IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT, and I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before. Such disrespect will not be tolerated!"

At a rally outside the Ambiance clothing warehouse in L.A., around two dozen family members of people who were detained there Friday held signs with photos of their loved ones. One sign read, "Dad, Come Back Home :("

Several described the toll the arrests have taken on their families.

A person who identified himself as Gabriel said his brother, Paco Vasquez, was detained in the raid. Because Vasquez was his household's sole breadwinner, his family doesn't know how it will cover expenses, such as rent and bills.

A woman named Julian said her father, Mario Romero, was arrested, but her family has avoided telling her 4-year-old brother, who has autism and struggles to communicate.

“He’s asked about his father,” she said, “in which we have responded that he’s working.”

At least four people said they had not received updates from immigration authorities or been able to communicate with their detained loved ones.

Jerónimo Martínez, 39, said in an interview, through an interpreter, that he is worried about his nephew, Lázaro Maldonado, because the family hasn’t had any communication with him since Friday.

“We don’t know if they’re OK," Martínez said. "We don’t know where they are.”

When asked whether the Trump administration can legally arrest Gov. Gavin Newsom if the federal government sees him as impeding ICE efforts, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said, “It’s just more talk, more bluff, more bluster, more threats.”

“States have rights. States could do lawful things,” Bonta told reporters today in announcing the state's lawsuit against the Trump administration. “It is the president and the Trump administration that is consistently and frequently blatantly and brazenly violating the law, not Gov. Newsom.”

Earlier today, Trump said Newsom should perhaps be arrested after the governor dared Trump’s border czar Tom Homan to do so. 

Los Angeles isn't the only U.S. city where anti-ICE protests have been taking place. The Portland Police Bureau in Oregon said in a statement today that officers responded to “safety concerns and protest activity” around the ICE facility there Saturday and yesterday.

Some of the protests were peaceful and others included arrests, the bureau said.

Police responded yesterday to the area following a report of people on private property next to the ICE building. The crowd cooperated, moving to a nearby sidewalk and no arrests were made regarding that protest, the statement said.

One person was arrested after an officer recognized the woman as someone who had a warrant for an assault, the statement said.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom said they will file a lawsuit today against Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the activation of the state's National Guard.

The Defense Department, under Trump's orders, redirected hundreds of National Guard troops from San Diego to Los Angeles without the governor’s authorization and against the wishes of local law enforcement, the attorney general’s office said in a news release. 

The lawsuit will ask the court to declare the order unlawful because it “exceeds the federal government’s authorities under the law and violates the Tenth Amendment.”

The move came as ICE had conducted multiple immigration raids in downtown Los Angeles the two days prior that were met with multiple protests. The release said by the time the National Guard arrived yesterday morning, the protests had dissipated, but their arrival reignited tensions. 

The Defense Department “intends to deploy 2,000 troops from across the state, an inflammatory escalation unsupported by conditions on the ground,” the release said.

A president ordering the National Guard under federal command over objections from a state’s governor is historically rare.

“It’s highly, highly unusual and really outside our constitutional norms and traditions,” said Laura Dickinson, a law professor at George Washington University.

Other presidents have federalized the National Guard during civil unrest.

President George H.W. Bush used the Insurrection Act to mobilize troops in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots when police officers accused of beating Rodney King were found not guilty. 

Presidents also federalized the National Guard to respond to protests and riots in the late 1960s and 1970, according to military documents. Earlier, presidents federalized the National Guard to enforce desegregation efforts in the 1950s and '60s.

Newsom responded in a post on X to Trump saying the Democratic governor should be arrested after Newsom dared border czar Tom Homan to do it.

"The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor," Newsom wrote.

"This is a day I hoped I would never see in America," he continued. "I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism."

Trump said in brief remarks to reporters today that maybe Gavin Newsom should be arrested after the Democratic governor dared Trump's border czar Tom Homan to do so.

"I would do it if I were Tom," Trump said after landing back at the White House when asked about Newsom's dare. "I like Gavin Newsom ... he's a nice guy, but he's grossly incompetent."

Asked to describe the people protesting in L.A., Trump said the people who are causing the problems are "professional agitators" and "insurrectionists."

David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union California, who was arrested during ICE protests in Los Angeles on Friday, has been federally charged with felony conspiracy to impede an officer. 

The felony charge carries a statutory maximum sentence of six years in federal prison. He’s currently in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. 

His initial appearance is set for today at 1:20 p.m. PT.

The SEIU said that Huerta, an American citizen and Los Angeles native, was injured and detained Friday as he was peacefully observing an ICE raid. 

He was hospitalized for his injury and taken into custody. Mayor Karen Bass told NBC Los Angeles that Huerta was pepper-sprayed. 

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., slammed Trump's order to deploy the National Guard as "unnecessary, inflammatory, and provocative."

"Trump should immediately revoke his command to use the National Guard, and leave the law enforcement to the governor and the mayor, who are more than capable of handling the situation," Schumer said in a statement. "Americans do not need or deserve this unnecessary and provocative chaos.”

Democrats have repeatedly criticized Trump's response to the protests along similar lines as Schumer, framing the White House as trying to escalate the situation.

Trump said in a post on Truth Social that "we made a great decision in sending the National Guard" to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, claiming that the city would have otherwise "been completely obliterated."

He criticized Newsom and Bass, saying that they should have been telling the president that "you are so wonderful" and "we would be nothing without you."

Democrats have consistently criticized Trump ordering the National Guard to deploy, arguing that it escalated the situation. Newsom had objected to Trump sending the National Guard.

Immigration protests were planned today after dozens of people were arrested over the weekend.

Here are some of the demonstrations planned today, all Pacific time:

9 a.m. — Families demand release of their loved ones arrested in weekend raids. Ambiance Warehouse, 2415 E. 15th St., Los Angeles.

11 a.m. — L.A. student walkout and protest against National Guard deployment. After walking out of school, high school students will convene at the Federal Building downtown at 1 p.m.

Noon — National civil rights leaders to rally with hundreds to demand an end to the immigration raids. They will be joined by workers, elected officials and supporters to demand the release of David Huerta from federal detention and the end of ICE raids in the community, according to organizers.

Forty-two Mexicans were detained in the ICE raids in Los Angeles, Mexico's foreign minister, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, said at a news conference today.

Of those, 37 are men and five are women, and all were identified and assisted by consular authorities.

Four people have been deported, two by previous removal orders and two voluntarily.

President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles to disperse immigration protests and California Gov. Gavin Newsom has questioned the legality of this move. NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos breaks down what Trump’s legal options are for using federal troops.

President Donald Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan responded to California Gov. Gavin Newsom telling Homan to “arrest me” after the border czar threatened to arrest anyone obstructing immigration enforcement.

“I was clear, they haven’t crossed the line, but they’re not above the law either,” Homan said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” referring to Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass. “If they commit a crime, then certainly we’d ask for prosecution. That’s what was happening. I never threatened to arrest Governor Newsom, so I’m not biting off of that.”

Separately, when asked whether everyone arrested by ICE has a criminal record, Homan said, “Absolutely not.”

“If ICE is there to arrest that bad guy and other aliens are there, we’re going to arrest them,” Homan said. “That’s what sanctuary cities get.”

Homan also criticized rhetoric about the protesters, pointing to incidents of violence. 

“It’s a matter of time before someone loses their life,” he said. He added that throwing a Molotov cocktail at an officer “can certainly be met with deadly force.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is criticizing President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard to crack down on demonstrators in Los Angeles who are protesting immigration raids by federal agents, saying it only inflames the situation. Meanwhile, border czar Tom Homan said officials who stand in the way of law enforcement operations could be arrested.

Lauren Tomasi, a news correspondent with Australia’s Channel Nine, was broadcasting live from the protests on Sunday evening when she was struck in the leg by what appeared to be a nonlethal rubber bullet fired by law enforcement.

In the video, a police officer was seen turning toward Tomasi and her crew before firing a round in their direction. Tomasi appeared to yell in pain as she stumbled to reach for her injured leg while the camera swiveled in the other direction.

Tomasi later told Nine News Australia that she was “safe,” adding that it had been “a really volatile day on the streets of L.A.”

LAPD did not respond to a request for comment.

Rep. Jesús “Chuy” Garcia, a Democrat from Chicago, will join immigrant rights leaders in the city later today to speak out against Trump’s move to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, as widespread protests persist for a fourth day.

A press release for the news conference, scheduled for 10 a.m. ET, stated that “the deportations, forced disappearances, travel ban 2.0, attacks on welcoming jurisdictions, and the jailing of labor leaders, highlight the cruelty with which Trump and his administration are focused on harming communities and families.”

In Chicago, protestors on Sunday held a rally in Pilsen to oppose the detention of at least 10 immigrants by ICE agents last week near a warehouse in the South Loop. Those arrested had “executable final orders of removal by an immigration judge, and had not complied with that order,” ICE said in a statement.

The ACLU will lead a peaceful rally and protest in downtown Los Angeles today at noon PT to demand the end of ICE raids, as anger toward government immigration politics simmers.

The rally, in solidarity with the Service Employees International Union California (SEIU), will call for the immediate release of the labor union’s president, David Huerta, who was injured and detained while documenting an ICE raid Friday.

The Miami-Dade Commission is set to vote on a proposal Monday 9 a.m. ET that could block the county from releasing public records about the people detained within its jails.

The commission will hold a hearing at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, where the proposal, if passed, would effectively disappear those detained into the system without public accountability for their whereabouts.

In exchange, the proposed contract will pay the county $25 per day for every person detained.

The proposal is part of an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement under its 287(g) program to cooperate in apprehending and detaining those believed to be in the country illegally.

Each of Florida’s 67 county jails has signed the agreement, with 590,000 of the country's nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in Florida, according to the latest Homeland Security Department estimates.

On Friday, Miami-Dade Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez said he would back the proposal in a post on X, adding that “Miami-Dade is not and will not be a sanctuary county.”

Around 300 National Guard members are stationed in downtown Los Angeles after President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of 2,000 troops for 60 days — a move condemned by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who called it inflammatory. About 500 Marines are ready to deploy to respond to the protests.

In its memo, the White House said it was circumventing a law that typically requires a governor to request such a deployment because “violent protests threaten the security of and significant damage to Federal immigration detention facilities and other Federal property.”

Widespread protests in Los Angeles County erupted after Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Friday carried out raids in three locations across the city, where dozens of people were taken into custody.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned the raids, calling them “chaotic federal sweeps” that aimed to fill an “arbitrary arrest quota.”

But as L.A.’s sizable pro-immigrant organizations and labor groups continued to demonstrate Saturday, L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna said federal law enforcement operations were “proceeding as planned” across the county.

Law enforcement used less-than-lethal munitions, as well as what appeared to be tear gas, to disperse crowds while multiple people were detained throughout the day.

The unrest also prompted President Donald Trump to deploy 2,000 National Guard troops to L.A. — a move that was condemned by Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, who said at a news conference that the raids didn’t increase peace and decrease crime but that they did push a wave of fear through a county where 1 in 3 are foreign-born.

“What we’re seeing in Los Angeles is chaos that is provoked by the administration,” Bass said, referring to Trump.

The protests continued for a third day on Sunday, with 56 people arrested so far, according to the police.

British photographer Nick Stern said he was hit with a 14mm high-velocity "sponge bullet" in his thigh while he was covering a stand-off between protestors and law enforcement in Los Angeles on Saturday evening.

The 60-year-old photographer told The Times of London he was “making a point of making myself visible as media” with a press ID around his neck while he was holding a large video camera.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said that ICE raids have created fear and unrest in the city and called on protesters to express their anger “peacefully.” 

The Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles urged Chinese citizens in the region to follow safety protocol as law enforcement operations continue in the area in an official statement issued Monday.

Chinese citizens “stay vigilant, enhance personal safety precautions, avoid gatherings, crowded areas, or places with poor public security, and refrain from going out alone or at night,” it added.

At least 56 people were arrested in Los Angeles over the weekend, police said.

Capt. Raul Jovel from the LAPD’s Central Division said that the California Highway Patrol had made 17 arrests while patrolling the 101 Freeway.

Those arrested include a person who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at an officer and another who was accused of ramming a motorcycle into a line of officers, injuring one.

Another driver was arrested after protesters chased a van near Union Station in downtown Los Angeles Sunday because, they said, it aimed at them. The van appeared to veer toward protesters gathered near the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building multiple times as it drove in circles, with what sounded like gunfire being heard from the van.

President Donald Trump on Sunday continued his harsh rhetoric against protestors in LA in a series of posts on Truth Social. Referring to reports from Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell that protestors in LA were “getting very much more aggressive,” Trump once again called on troops from the National Guard to be deployed in the area.

“Looking really bad in L.A. BRING IN THE TROOPS!!!" he said in a post on Truth Social, adding, "ARREST THE PEOPLE IN FACE MASKS, NOW!" in a separate post.

About 300 National Guardsmen have been deployed on the ground in LA after being called to protect federal personnel and property for the first time by an American president.

Protesters wave Mexican flags last night following two days of clashes with law enforcement, sparked by a series of immigration raids in Los Angeles.

The LAPD has declared the Civic Center area in downtown Los Angeles an “unlawful assembly,” according to a post on X, adding that it had sent an alert to all cell phones in the area.

Local business owners reported that stores in the area of 6th Street and Broadway were being looted, Los Angeles police said in a post on X, adding that its officers were en route to the location to investigate.

In a separate post on X, the LAPD’s Central Division requested all DTLA businesses or residents to photograph all vandalism, damage or looting so that “it can be documented by an official police report.”

Trump’s new ban on travel to the U.S. by nationals from 12 mostly African and Middle Eastern countries took effect at 12:01 a.m. ET as protesters in Los Angeles clashed with law enforcement over immigration enforcement raids.

A proclamation Trump signed last week bars entry to nationals of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Seven other countries — Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela — face heightened restrictions.

Trump said that nationals from the affected countries might pose risks related to terrorism and public safety and that many of the countries had high rates of people overstaying their visas.

The ban has been strongly condemned as discriminatory by groups that provide aid and resettlement to refugees, who say it will prevent many people from reuniting with family and jeopardize the safety of those fleeing conflict and persecution in countries such as Afghanistan.

In an exclusive interview, Newsom said Trump “has created the conditions” surrounding the Los Angeles protests.

Newsom went on to call Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard “a manufactured crisis,” then addressed White House "border czar" Tom Homan’s threats of arrest.

“Tom, arrest me. Let’s go,” he said. The governor also plans to sue the Trump administration over its deployment of the National Guard.

At least five Waymo cars went up in flames as crowds protested after federal immigration raids. The driverless rides have been suspended in downtown Los Angeles.