Immigration

Police confront a protesters outside City Hall during protests over federal immigration enforcement raids on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

As legal fight over Guard deployment plays out, Noem vows to continue Trump’s immigration crackdown

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is promising to move forward with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles despite the waves of unrest.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem holds a news conference regarding the recent protests in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

Trump administration tells immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela they have to leave

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaks during a interfaith prayer vigil calling for nonviolence and solidarity with immigrant neighbors at Gloria Molina Grand Park, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

US faith leaders opposed to ICE raids counsel nonviolent resistance and lead by example

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is pushed out of the room as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem holds a news conference regarding the recent protests in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

Sen. Padilla is forcefully removed from Noem’s news conference on immigration raids and handcuffed

Demonstrators hold signs during a protest, Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

Nationwide protests against immigration raids escalate, leading to arrests and curfews

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Padilla says he was removed from news conference for demanding answers about immigration enforcement

Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla was forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country. (AP video: Krysta Fauria)

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A U.S. Army soldier walks past a Bradley fighting vehicle staged in West Potomac Park ahead of an upcoming military parade commemorating the Army's 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump's 79th birthday, Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul are sworn in during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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President Donald Trump talks with California Gov. Gavin Newsom after arriving on Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

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Protests over immigration raids pop up across the US with more planned

Repatriated Afghan refugees arrive at a camp after crossing the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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A man shouts into a megaphone outside City Hall during protests over federal immigration enforcement raids on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Homeland Security secretary pledges to carry on with Trump’s immigration crackdown

Officers on horseback in Los Angeles charge toward protesters

DHS police and National Guard protect the outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Appeals court temporarily blocks judge’s ruling to return control of National Guard to California

Why Los Angeles ICE protesters are staying in the streets

Migrants seeking asylum leave an immigration office after their scheduled meetings were canceled and they were turned away soon after President Donald Trump canceled the CBP One app, Jan. 20, 2025, in Matamoros, Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Trump administration hit with second lawsuit over restrictions on asylum access

Army soldiers look at the border wall next to a surveillance vehicle in Sunland Park, N.M., Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)

Troops begin detaining immigrants in national defense zone at border in escalation of military role

Brila Adauto of Omaha waves a Mexican flag as hundreds gather in after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a raid earlier in the day in Omaha, Neb. on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

An Omaha food plant owner says he followed the rules for hiring immigrants. It was raided anyway.

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President Donald Trump talks with California Gov. Gavin Newsom after arriving on Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Trump’s mass deportations leave Democrats more ready to fight back

Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is seen at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

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Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, head of Task Force 51, which is overseeing the deployment of National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, speaks to reporters Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, Calif. (AP Photo/Amy Taxin)

About 500 National Guard troops in LA are trained to accompany agents on immigration raids

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