In pictures: Trump told to stop stepped-up immigration raids by LA area mayors
Dozens of mayors from across the Los Angeles region banded together on Wednesday to demand that the Trump administration stop the stepped-up immigration raids that have spread fear across their cities and sparked protests across the US.
Los Angeles police have made nearly 400 arrests and detentions since Saturday, the vast majority of which were for failing to leave the area at the request of law enforcement, according to the police department. Nine police officers have been wounded, mostly with minor injures.
California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, has asked a federal court to put an emergency stop to the military helping immigration agents across the nation's second-largest city. This week, guardsmen began standing protectively around agents as they carry out arrests. A judge set a hearing for Thursday.
About 2000 National Guard soldiers are in Los Angeles, and are soon to be joined by 2000 more along with about 700 Marines, said US Army Major-General Scott Sherman, head of Task Force 51, which is overseeing the deployment. National Guard troops are shown here carrying out public order drills.
Sherman said Wednesday that even though protests have calmed down in Los Angeles, he expects the situation will escalate. "We are expecting a ramp up," he said, noting that protests are bubbling up across the nation.
Police detained more than 20 people, mostly on curfew violations, on the first night of restrictions in downtown Los Angeles and used crowd-control projectiles to break up hundreds of protesters. But there were fewer clashes than on previous nights.
Jaslyn Hernandez, daughter of a car wash worker, embraces her sister Kimberly Hernandez, and their uncle Juan Medina during a press conference with families of detained car wash workers on Wednesday, in Culver City, California.
Demonstrations have also spread to other cities nationwide, including Dallas and Austin in Texas, Chicago, New York. Some of the biggest protests were held near Atlanta in Georgia, shown here. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
June 9
US President Donald Trump has authorised the deployment of an additional 2000 National Guard members to respond to immigration protests in Los Angeles, according to the Pentagon's chief spokesperson. The latest order brings the total number of Guards put on federal orders for the protests to more than 4100.
The news comes hours after the Pentagon deployed about 700 Marines to the protests to work alongside local law enforcement.
The initial 2100 National Guard members were expected to be on the ground in LA on Monday evening (Tuesday AEST), but it was notyet clear if they had all arrived.
Here, protesters confront Los Angeles police department personnel in riot gear in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2025.
Los Angeles police officers arrest a protester in downtown Los Angeles.
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