President Trump has ordered a crackdown on illegal immigration, resulting in protests in Los Angeles. Protesters burned vehicles and raised the Mexican flag, confronting law enforcement. An Australian female reporter broadcasting live reacted in pain when police fired behind her. Protesters summoned a fleet of autonomous taxis via an app, igniting them while shouting for California to secede from the United States.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched operations in Los Angeles on June 6, targeting illegal workers. Initially, search efforts were concentrated in the fashion district, but expanded to industrial areas the next day, causing fear among local undocumented immigrants. California, a stronghold for the blue Democratic Party, was outraged by this action, leading protesters to surround federal enforcement agencies and clash with police.

As protests escalated, police employed non-lethal crowd control measures like tear gas and bean bag rounds, but struggled to contain the tide of protests. Trump claimed that masked rioters were planning to attack federal law enforcement and ordered the National Guard to deploy, ruling out the possibility of sending in Marines to protect national security. California Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the federal use of the National Guard as a serious infringement on state sovereignty and called for an immediate withdrawal of their deployment.