Overview

• ICE conducted nationwide raids targeting day laborers at Home Depot parking lots after White House aide Stephen Miller ordered an escalation of deportation quotas.
• Demonstrators in Los Angeles and other cities have held largely peaceful protests with isolated vandalism, including burned Waymo vehicles and thrown rocks.
• Over 4,000 National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines have been stationed in Los Angeles for 60 days at an estimated cost of $134 million.
• Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass have denounced the federal deployment and are preparing legal challenges over its bypass of state authority.
• Late-night host John Oliver and other critics have decried the measures as authoritarian even as nationwide “No Kings” rallies drew an estimated 5 million participants.