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Here is what happened on each day the protests against immigration detention operations in the Los Angeles area.
Trump's escalation of immigration arrests by shifting into workplaces ignited clashes between protesters and officers in the immigrant-heavy city.
As protests in Los Angeles entered its fourth day, the federal government escalated its tense standoff with California as it prepared to send in 700 marines.
A relative state of calm in Los Angeles began to crumble early Sunday afternoon as demonstrators confronted federal authorities guarding a downtown detention facility where chaos erupted as National Guard soldiers deployed tear gas on an increasingly agitated crowd.
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The Pentagon is scrambling to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with the rare and difficult prospect of using force against citizens on American soil, now that the Trump administration is deploying active duty troops to the immigration raid protests in Los Angeles.
Tonight protesters are taking to the streets again in LA as the Trump administration has now mobilized marines in addition to national guard deployments following violent clashes. Democratic officials have criticized Trump for deploying the national guard,
U.S. officials said about 1,000 National Guard members were in the city under federal orders by midday Monday.
On Monday, Trump, a Republican, sent 700 U.S. Marines to Los Angeles to guard federal buildings as protests there continued. The marine battalion adds to California National Guard units Trump had already sent to the city to quell protests in defiance of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Even as protests against raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stretched into a fourth day Monday in Los Angeles, city workers began a cleanup of graffiti and other weekend damage across the city.
President Trump deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles, overriding state authority for the first time in 60 years.