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Immigration enforcement efforts in Los Angeles served because the ignition level over the weekend, as coordinated ICE raids throughout the town sparked violent clashes with legislation enforcement, resulting in the arrival of army forces.
The Trump administration’s crackdown culminated within the president’s decisive motion Monday to deploy a battalion of a whole bunch of U.S. Marines to answer anti-immigration enforcement riots, Fox Information has realized.
“Approximately 700 Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division will seamlessly integrate with the Title 10 forces under Task Force 51 who are protecting federal personnel and federal property in the greater Los Angeles area,” U.S. Northern Command mentioned in an announcement.
Assemblyman David Tangipa, R-Calif., referred to as the protests an “orchestrated attack.”
CALIFORNIA LT. GOVERNOR SAYS LOS ANGELES RIOTS ARE ‘GENERATED BY DONALD TRUMP’
“Law enforcement is under violent assault—pelted with bricks and weapons by rioters,” he instructed Fox Information Digital. “This isn’t peaceful protest, it’s an orchestrated attack. Organizers aren’t just enabling it—they’re inciting it. Now, even the Marines are being deployed to restore order.”
“Violence must be condemned and stopped before more lives are put at risk.”
President Donald Trump described the demonstrators as “violent, insurrectionist mobs” and praised the two,000 Nationwide Guard troops for his or her function in restoring order after hoards of protesters clashed with legislation enforcement in Los Angeles.
Here’s a timeline of key occasions surrounding the immigration enforcement actions and ensuing protests in Los Angeles:
Friday, June 6:
Federal immigration enforcement efforts in Los Angeles started on Friday, June 6, with coordinated ICE raids throughout the town concentrating on migrants. These operations, which resulted in additional than 100 arrests, targeted on identified areas of illegal employment and exercise, together with the Style District and industrial hubs.
Amongst these arrested was 49-year-old Cuong Chanh Phan, an unlawful immigrant from Vietnam with a prison historical past that features a conviction for second-degree homicide. Phan was convicted of taking pictures up a highschool commencement get together after a dispute, killing an 18-year-old and a 15-year-old. Seven others have been injured within the incident, in response to the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS).
One man has already been despatched again to Mexico after being picked up at a Residence Depot on Friday morning. In the course of the demonstrations, David Huerta, president of SEIU California, a labor union, was arrested and charged with impeding a federal agent whereas protesting.
Police detain a protester blocking the storage entrance of the Los Angeles Federal Constructing following a number of detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in downtown Los Angeles on June 6, 2025. (Daniel Cole/Reuters)
Saturday, June 7:
Trump deployed California Nationwide Guard troops to Los Angeles on Saturday following the chaotic standoff between protesters and federal immigration authorities. Photographs from the scene in California captured protesters blocking streets, throwing bricks at legislation enforcement and setting automobiles ablaze.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom requested the administration to rescind the deployment, saying Trump is making an attempt “to manufacture a crisis” and that the president is “hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.”
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized California’s Democratic management, stating they’d “completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens.”
She declared that the Trump administration maintains a zero-tolerance coverage for prison habits and violence, particularly when directed at legislation enforcement officers, and that such people “will be arrested and swiftly brought to justice.”
Protesters disguise behind barricades as legislation enforcement officers shoot much less deadly projectiles at them on June 8, 2025 in Downtown Los Angeles. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Pictures)
DHS launched an announcement on Saturday noting it took the LAPD two hours to answer the Roybal Federal Constructing, regardless of a number of calls.
“Last night, over 1,000 rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building and assaulted ICE law enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and taxpayer-funded property,” in response to DHS. “Our ICE enforcement officers are facing a 413% increase in assaults against them. Disturbingly, in recent days, ICE officers’ family members have been dox[x]ed and targeted as well.”
Newsom, in the meantime, strongly condemned President Trump’s choice to deploy 2,000 Nationwide Guard troops to Los Angeles with out state consent, labeling the transfer as “purposefully inflammatory.”
“California – Don’t give Donald Trump what he wants,” Newsom wrote in a X put up. “Speak up. Stay peaceful. Stay calm. Do not use violence and respect the law enforcement officers that are trying their best to keep the peace.”
FEDERAL OFFICIALS SLAM DEMOCRATS FOR ‘DANGEROUS’ RHETORIC AS ICE AGENTS FACE VIOLENT MOBS IN LA, NYC
Protesters maintain up flags throughout protests after a sequence of immigration raids on June 8, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Spencer Platt/Getty Pictures)
Sunday, June 8:
On Sunday, rioters gathered downtown, together with close to the Metropolitan Detention Middle, to protest ongoing immigration enforcement and the arrival of Nationwide Guard personnel.
Regulation enforcement companies, together with the LAPD and Nationwide Guard troops, employed crowd-control measures reminiscent of tear gasoline, pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse protesters.
Newsom arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday night to supervise the response to the anti-ICE riots and meet with state emergency officers.
“We’re here to keep the peace — not play into Trump’s political games,” Newsom wrote.
WATCH: DESTRUCTION TO LAPD HQ
Rioters have been seen concentrating on the LAPD headquarters on Sunday night time as violent demonstrations continued.
The LAPD declared an “unlawful assembly” Sunday night as protesters did not disperse within the downtown space.
“Agitators have splintered into and through out [sic] the Downtown Area,” the LAPD’s Central Division wrote on X. “Residents, businesses and visitors to the Downtown Area should be alert and report any criminal activity. Officers are responding to several different locations to disperse crowds.”
ICE OFFICIAL PUTS POLITICIANS ON BLAST, DEMANDING THEY ‘STOP PUTTING MY PEOPLE IN DANGER’
Different video footage from the weekend exhibits protesters spitting on the American flag and setting it on fireplace whereas chanting “F Trump,” setting fireplace to automobiles and throwing objects and fireworks at police.
Demonstrators protest exterior a downtown jail in Los Angeles following two days of clashes with police throughout a sequence of immigration raids on June 8, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Spencer Platt/Getty Pictures)
Monday, June 9:
DHS on Monday referred to as on California’s politicians to “call off their rioting mob,” asking why Newsom was supporting what the division referred to as “foreign criminals.”
The put up included a video that exhibits a masked, shirtless man holding a Mexican flag whereas standing on prime of a car coated in graffiti. A second car is seen burning in the midst of a road as crowds of individuals gathered close by.
Newsom continued to spar with Trump over the riots erupting in Los Angeles, calling the president “unhinged” on Monday. Newsom has peppered Trump with criticisms over federalizing the Nationwide Guard in a sequence of posts on X.
“We’re suing him,” Newsom added.
WATCH:
On Monday afternoon, Fox Information realized that a whole bunch of Marines have been mobilizing in Los Angeles. They are going to be tasked with defending federal property and federal personnel, in response to a senior protection official, and the deployment is open-ended.
The Marines is not going to be finishing up a legislation enforcement function, but it surely Is unclear what their use of power guidelines are if protesters throw issues or spit at them.
The Marines are from the 2nd Battalion, seventh Marines at Twentynine Palms, California.
Moments earlier than the deployment, Trump expressed optimism that the state of affairs in Los Angeles was enhancing.
“I mean, I think we have it very well under control,” he instructed reporters. “I think it would have been a very bad situation. It was heading in the wrong direction. It’s now heading in the right direction.”
Newsom expressed his outrage at the potential for the presence of Marines, writing on X, “U.S. Marines have served honorably across multiple wars in defense of democracy. They are heroes. They shouldn’t be deployed on American soil facing their own countrymen to fulfill the deranged fantasy of a dictatorial President. This is un-American.”
Smoke rises from a burning automobile on Atlantic Boulevard throughout a standoff between protesters and legislation enforcement, following a number of detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement within the Los Angeles County metropolis of Paramount, California, on June 7, 2025. (REUTERS/Barbara Davidson)
The California governor initially mentioned that the knowledge they’ve is that Marines will not be being deployed, however shifting “from one base to another base.”
“From our understanding, this is moving Marines from one base to another base,” Newsom wrote in an announcement on X. “At this time, the information we have is that Marines are not being deployed (there is a difference between that and being mobilized),” he continued.
“The level of escalation is completely unwarranted, uncalled for, and unprecedented — mobilizing the best in class branch of the U.S. military against its own citizens,” Newsom mentioned.
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Fox Information’ Jennifer Griffin, Greg Wehner, Stepheny Worth and Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.
