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LA Protests Live: Downtown LA declared unlawful assembly area after third day of anti-ICE unrest
08:06 EDT
What is happening in LA?
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08:03 EDT
Jorge Garcia
Police have declared all of downtown Los Angeles to be an unlawful assembly area and ordered protesters to go home, after Sunday saw a third day of violence hit demonstrations against President Donald Trump's immigration policy.
National Guard troops were deployed by Trump at the weekend to help quell the protests, a move California Governor Gavin Newsom called unlawful.
They guarded federal government buildings on Sunday.
The unrest in Los Angeles has become a major flashpoint in Trump's signature effort to clamp down on illegal immigration.
The U.S. president has pledged to deport record numbers of people who are in the country illegally and to lock down the U.S.-Mexico border, setting the border enforcement agency ICE a daily goal of arresting at least 3,000 migrants.
California state and local officials, mainly Democrats, accuse Trump of inflaming initially small-scale protests by mounting a federal response. He calls the protesters insurrectionists.
Los Angeles police said some protesters had thrown concrete projectiles, bottles and other items at police. Police declared several rallies to be unlawful assemblies and later extended that to include the whole downtown area.
Police said they had arrested 10 people on Sunday and 29 the previous night, adding arrests were continuing.
