LA protesters and police in standoff as Trump doubles National Guard deployment

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18 hours ago

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Date: 18 min ago
Title: Protesters outside US Embassy in Mexico City call for end to immigration raids across the border
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Protesters in Mexico City staged a demonstration outside the US Embassy on Monday, calling for an end to sweeping immigration raids across the border.
Video captured by Reuters showed people waving Mexican and US flags and burning an effigy resembling US President Donald Trump.
'We cannot remain silent as the Trump administration escalates its war on our communities in the United States,' said activist Alejandro Marinero from Migrant Organization Aztlan.
'Immigration policy is not a party issue, but a class issue. It is the tool of a system that seeks to divide us, exploit us and keep us in the shadows to ensure its profits at the expense of our humanity,' he told Reuters.
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Date: 42 min ago
Title: Thousands rally in San Francisco against ICE raids
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Thousands of people marched through San Francisco's Civic Center and Mission neighborhoods on Monday night in protests that were 'overwhelmingly peaceful,' police said.
Demonstrators rallied against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids across the country and expressed solidarity with immigrant communities, CNN affiliate KGO reported.
'At the very end of the night, two small groups broke off and committed vandalism and other criminal acts,' the San Francisco Police Department said.
Police said they detained multiple people who refused to comply with orders, made arrests, and are currently addressing one unresolved situation.
'I'm deeply concerned about what's going on in Los Angeles and all around the country. California, we are better because of our diversity, and for people to be torn away from school graduations, torn away from their children, that's not right. We have to come out here and tell people that's not right,' Holly Minch, who marched with a sign that read 'MELT ICE,' told KGO.
The police said they coordinated with public safety agencies under the leadership of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie to 'protect numerous First Amendment actions' in the affected neighborhoods.
On Sunday, about 150 people, including some under the age of 18, were arrested near the Immigration Services building. Police said the arrests were made after protesters ignored dispersal orders and engaged in acts of violence and vandalism.
Anti-ICE protests have popped up around the country, including in New York, Atlanta, Seattle, Dallas and Louisville.
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Date: 57 min ago
Title: Law enforcement helicopters have been circling above protests, flight tracker shows
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Helicopters from the LAPD and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department circled the areas of Boyle Heights and Little Tokyo throughout the day on Monday, according to data from Flightradar24.
Earlier in the night, several police helicopters and a plane deployed by the California Highway Patrol were flying over the downtown area. By midnight, only two police helicopters remained airborne.
Since protests erupted over the weekend, authorities have maintained a consistent presence in the air, with multiple helicopters sighted above protest zones all day yesterday.
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Date: 1 hr 23 min ago
Title: In pictures: Protesters clash with police in Downtown Los Angeles on Monday
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Date: 1 hr 23 min ago
Title: Who is protesting in LA?
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The protests appear divided into separate groups: progressive citizens who felt called to defend the rights of the undocumented, and protesters who appeared determined to drag the city into violent chaos.
A senior law enforcement source told CNN that intelligence analysts have been conducting assessments on the crowds that gathered Sunday night. They found the many of the protesters were motivated by the recent immigration raids and disdain for the federal government's deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles.
But some protesters, the intelligence source said, fit law enforcement profiles of so-called 'professional rioters,' who continually seek out confrontation with law enforcement.
Defending 'La Raza': Unión del Barrio, an organization whose members are dedicated to defending the rights of 'la raza' — or Mexican and indigenous people — within the US, praised the efforts to fight back against ICE and other agencies.
The Los Angeles community has 'the moral authority and universal right to defend our people from kidnappings and family separation,' a spokesman said.
Toll on vulnerable communities: After being informed ICE agents were questioning workers at a Pasadena hotel, Pablo Alvarado, the co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, began calling for protests to protect vulnerable immigrant communities throughout the city.
'The Pasadena community showed up in large numbers and the message was loud and clear, we don't want to see your armored vehicles, men in masks coming to our communities to pick people up to rip families apart.'
But, Alvarado added, he felt the violence that spread throughout the city in response to the raids was tainting their cause.
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Date: 1 hr 23 min ago
Title: Analysis: LA's crisis rests on what Trump does next
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Donald Trump is talking and acting like an authoritarian as he escalates a constitutional clash with California over his migration crackdown.
Much now depends on whether he's simply talking tough or if he's ready to take an already-tense nation across a fateful line in his zeal for strongman rule.
On Monday, the president of the United States — the country seen as the world's top steward of democracy for 80 years — endorsed the arrest of the Democratic governor of the nation's most populous state. 'I think it would be a great thing,' Trump said.
Trump's decision to deploy troops despite the opposition of California Gov. Gavin Newsom represented the latest example of his willingness to flex extraordinary executive power and marked a break with a first term when he was often talked out of his extreme impulses by establishment officials.
For all Trump's multiple previous challenges to the rule of law and democracy, a grave new chapter may be opening.
The trajectory of the crisis could now turn on whether Trump follows through on his dictator's theatrics by crossing lines not approached by modern presidents — notably on the use of troops in a law enforcement capacity.
It may also rely on the restraint of protesters, who would play into Trump's hands by taking part in more unrest that creates alarming television pictures that can fuel Trump's dystopian rhetoric.
Creating or escalating a law-and-order crisis or threat to public security and then using it to justify the use of the military on domestic soil would mirror the methodology of tyrannical leaders throughout history.
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Date: 1 hr 23 min ago
Title: Newsom hasn't done anything to warrant arrest, Trump's border czar says
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White House border czar Tom Homan joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins to discuss comments President Donald Trump made suggesting Homan arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom.