Tensions on the repression of immigration from the Trump administration intensified this weekend after the American president Donald Trump ordered the deployment of national guard troops to Los Angeles Area to appease protests that have sometimes become violent.
Dozens of demonstrators have been arrested for facing the police in the past three days after the federal immigration authorities have carried out several raids in the city of more than four million people, especially in communities with large Latin American populations.
Trump’s decision to send the National Guard was sentenced by officials of the State and the City of California who accused the president of having ignited tensions unnecessarily.
Monday saw the deployment of American navies to help As more and more troops in the National Guard arrive in the city. California also said it was planning to continue the Trump administration about the deployment order.
Here’s how the situation has evolved since Friday.
Friday June 6 – Spark Raids Spark protests
The troubles began Friday after the American immigration and customs’ application agents (ICE) arrested immigrants in a series of operations in the Los Angeles region.
The Ministry of Internal Security said on Sunday in a statement that arrested people included “some of the worst criminal unlaborate foreigners”, including alleged gang members with previous criminal convictions, assault, drug trafficking and other offenses.
City officials and immigration rights defenders say that street sellers and day workers have been picked up outside a Home Depot store, a warehouse factory, a warehouse and other places in Los Angeles and neighboring communities like Paramount and Compton, which houses large Latin-American populations.
On Friday, a total of 44 people were arrested for violation of immigration, said a spokesperson for internal security surveys at the Associated Press and Reuters.
The demonstrators went down on Friday in a federal immigration detention center in downtown Los Angeles, which caused a confrontation with the police who made several arrests. Federal officials have shared online photos of a language threatening against ice painting for spraying on the walls of the building.
Improved demonstrations also broke out in some of the locations of raids earlier in the day. According to a press release, an organized work director, David Huerta, president of the International Union of Service Employees, was injured and owned by ice on a site.
Trump has undertaken to expel a record number of people in the country illegally and to lock the American-mexic border, fixing ice to stop at least 3,000 migrants per day.
Saturday June 7 – Trump orders the deployment of the National Guard
The demonstrations increased on Saturday, with a few hundred demonstrators descending again near the immigration detention center in Los Angeles, where local police said an illegal assembly and began to arrest people.
The confrontations broke out near a Home Depot Home Depot where the federal agents organized themselves in a office of the Ministry of Internal Security nearby, arousing the fears of another raid.
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The agents unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls, and demonstrators launched rocks and cement to border patrol vehicles.
While the demonstrations continued to grow, Trump published a memorandum deploying 2,000 troops of the California National Guard in response to what he called a “rebellion” against the authority of the federal government to carry out the application of immigration.
The ordinance federalized the national part of California within the framework of what is known as the authority of title 10, which places it, and not the governor, at the top of the chain of command. He first marked the US president has deployed the National Guard without a request for governor in 60 years.
The American Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, warned that the Pentagon was ready to mobilize the troops in active service “if the violence continues”, saying that the navies of the nearby Camp Pendleton were “on high alert”.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass said Trump’s decision was unnecessary escalation and urged the demonstrators to abstain from violence.
Sunday June 8 – The national guard troops arrive as the demonstrations increase
Thousands of people went down on the streets of Los Angeles on Sunday to protest against Trump’s order, blocking a large highway and set fire to autonomous cars while the police used tear gas, rubber bullets and flash fringes to control the crowd.
US Northern Command confirmed that 300 national guard troops were deployed on Sunday in Los Angeles, Paramount and Compton for the sole purpose of defending buildings and federal agents. A press release indicates that around 500 navies were ready to deploy if necessary.
From the morning, the national guard troops stood in the shoulder to the shoulder, carrying long cannons and riot shields outside the metropolitan detention center in the city center of Los Angeles.
In the evening, the police had issued an illegal assembly prescription closing several houses in downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles police chief Jim McDonnell said on Sunday evening at a press conference that people had the right to protest peacefully, but the violence he had seen by some was “disgusting” and that the demonstrations became out of control.
The police said they had arrested 10 people on Sunday and 29 in the previous night, adding that arrests were continuing.
Newsom demanded that the Trump administration cancel the “illegal” order of the National Guard in a letter to Hegseth on Sunday afternoon.
In addition, San Francisco police said they had arrested nearly 150 demonstrators during a demonstration on Sunday evening against the repression of the Trump administration.
Monday June 9, 2025 – California continues the Trump administration
The California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Monday his intention to continue the Trump administration to cancel the deployment of the National Guard, which, according to him, violates state sovereignty.
US officials told the Associated Press that there were currently around 1,000 members of the National Guard in the Los Angeles region on Monday, and that the 2,000 complete soldiers ordered by Trump should arrive by the end of the day.
The US military said it would deploy around 700 navies in the city, while these additional national guard troops arrive.
Hegseth declared in an article on social networks that the Marines were deployed to “restore order” due to “increased threats” against federal law enforcement agents and buildings.
Thousands of people on Monday flooded the streets of the Town Hall for a union rally before an audience for the managers arrested Huerta, who was then released under US $ 50,000. Other demonstrations and marches took place in the city on Monday, the military troops blocking the intersections around the federal building of Edward R. Roybal in the city center.
Demonstrations against Trump and in support of Los Angeles demonstrations took place in Boston, Chicago, New York and other major cities.
Trump defended his decision in several comments to journalists and social media on Monday. He also said he would stop Newsom for his immigration policies if she had the opportunity.
“Gavin likes advertising, but I think it would be a good thing,” he said by returning to the White House.
Newsom described the threat of arrest of “not undoubtedly to authoritarianism” in an article on the social media platform X.
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum also condemned violence during her daily press conference on Monday, after demonstrators during the weekend were seen bearing Mexican flags.
The Minister of Mexico for Foreign Affairs, Juan Ramon of the Fuente, said that at least 42 Mexicans were detained in four detention centers in the Los Angeles region after recent ice raids and that four were expelled.
– with files from the Associated Press and Reuters