Overview

• ICE raids in Los Angeles on June 6 led to at least 44 arrests and sparked nightly demonstrations under curfew.
• Solidarity protests have spread to more than a dozen cities, including New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.
• On June 9, President Trump ordered thousands of National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles without Governor Newsom’s consent.
• Governor Gavin Newsom denounced the federal troop deployment as an escalation that “inflamed a combustible situation” and filed a court challenge to block it.
• Kim Kardashian, Eva Longoria and Doechii publicly condemned the raids on social media, calling for a more humane approach to immigration enforcement.