How the Los Angeles protests over Trump’s immigration crackdown evolved

This weekend, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown stoked tensions. President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area to quell protests that at times turned violent.
Dozens of demonstrators have been arrested for clashing with police over the past three days after federal immigration authorities conducted several raids in the city of over four million people, including in communities with large Latino populations.
Trump’s move to send in the National Guard has been condemned by California state and city officials who have accused the president of inflaming tensions unnecessarily.
U.S. troops were deployed on Monday. Marines to assist as more National Guard troops arrive in the city. California also said it plans to sue the Trump administration over the deployment order.
The situation has changed since Friday in the following ways: The unrest began on Friday when U.S. In a series of operations carried out all over the Los Angeles region, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made arrests of immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Sunday that those arrested included “some of the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens,” including alleged gang members with past criminal convictions for murder, assault, drug smuggling and other offences.City officials and immigration rights advocates say street vendors and day labourers were picked up outside a Home Depot store, a garment factory, a warehouse and other locations in Los Angeles and nearby communities like Paramount and Compton, home to large Latino populations.The protests grew on Saturday, with a few hundred demonstrators descending again near the immigration detention centre in Los Angeles, where local police declared an unlawful assembly and began to arrest people.Confrontations broke out near a Home Depot in Paramount where federal agents were staging at a Department of Homeland Security office nearby, sparking fears of another raid.