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The ongoing protests in Los Angeles began with small demonstrations against immigration raids in the nation's second largest city.
Days of demonstrations against federal immigration raids in Los Angeles have fueled round-the-clock news coverage and a number of misleading social media posts, including unrelated videos being mislabeled or shared out of context.
Newsom filed a lawsuit Monday in response to Trump ordering the deployment of roughly 4,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles following protests over his stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws. They were originally called in to protect federal buildings, and the president later ordered the deployment of 700 Marines.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has asked a court to put an emergency stop to the military helping federal immigration agents.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump to stop the National Guard and Marines from aiding immigration raids in Los Angeles, amid ongoing state and federal immigration policy disputes in other Democratic-led states.
The unrest during several days of protests over immigration enforcement is far different in scale from the 1992 riots.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has announced his lawsuit against the Trump administration for deploying the National Guard in Los Angeles to contain the riots over the immigration raids that broke out this past weekend.
How did Trump send in National Guard Troops and Marines to L.A.? An explainer of presidential authority and the limits of military law enforcement.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr slams Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit over Trump’s National Guard deployment, calling the claims ‘nonsense.'
Judicial precedent backs up the federal government's authority for immigration enforcement as challenges to "sanctuary" policies loom in federal courts.
Robert McWhirter, a constitutional law expert, discusses the lawsuit filed by California challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to activate the National Guard.
Protests over federal immigration enforcement raids are flaring up around the country, and officials in cities from coast to coast are bracing for major demonstrations against President Donald Trump over the weekend.