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- TROOPS IN L.A.: About 700 Marines from the Marine Corps base in Twentynine Palms, California, will deploy to Los Angeles to support the roughly 300 National Guard members already in the city to control protests against federal immigration raids, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. President Donald Trump had earlier ordered the deployment of 2,000 troops in a move California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized as inflammatory.
- HOW WE GOT HERE: Protests erupted after Immigration Customs Enforcement officers carried out raids Friday in three locations across Los Angeles, where dozens of people were taken into custody. Newsom called the raids “chaotic federal sweeps” that aimed to fill an “arbitrary arrest quota.”
- TRUMP VS. NEWSOM: “Border czar” Tom Homan threatened Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass with arrest if they impede troop deployment efforts. Newsom responded by saying: “Tom, arrest me. Let’s go.” Trump backed Homan’s threat, and Newsom called it “an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.”
- CALIFORNIA SUES: Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against Trump and Hegseth over the activation of the state’s National Guard, asking a court to declare the order unlawful.
- ARRESTS: At least 56 people were arrested this weekend as protesters were ordered to leave downtown and law enforcement shot “less-lethal” rounds. Demonstrators spilled out onto the 101 Freeway, while others set fire to Waymo driverless cars.
Reporting from Los Angeles
included in security plans.
“Every single graduation site is a protected site,” Carvalho said.
Officials attempted to disperse a crowd at anti-ICE protests downtown by firing tear gas and flash-bangs.
Democratic Sen. Fetterman condemns protests, calling them ‘anarchy and true chaos’
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman called the protests in Los Angeles “anarchy and true chaos,” slamming his party for what he characterized as a refusal to condemn violent acts.
“I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration — but this is not that,” Fetterman wrote in a post on X.
“My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement,” he added.
Fetterman’s response to the protests stands in contrast to statements by other Democratic lawmakers. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer condemned the Trump administration’s response, in which he ordered the National Guard to the city, calling it “unnecessary, inflammatory, and provocative” in a statement earlier today.
‘Stop the raids,’ L.A. mayor pleads with feds
Bass ended a news conference this evening by asking the federal government to stop conducting immigration raids in the city, saying they are creating chaos and are unnecessary.
Bass said that in some cases families are showing up for their scheduled appointments with ICE as they are supposed to and then being detained and that day laborers are being targeted.
She said there were five raids today, but she did not know all the details.
“I am hopeful that the federal government will hear our plea: Stop the raids,” Bass said. “This is creating fear and chaos in our city, and it is unnecessary.”
“And I hope that we will be heard, because our city is trying to move forward,” she continued. “And I believe that the federal government should be supportive of us moving forward.”
The protests erupted after federal raids Friday
