PinnedUpdated June 9, 2025, 7:59 a.m. ETThree days of clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers have left parts of Los Angeles on edge and turned the United States’ second largest city into a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.As the police ordered demonstrators to leave downtown Los Angeles early Monday after local officers used tear gas to subdue crowds demonstrating against President Trump’s immigration policies, California leaders demanded the withdrawal of the hundreds of National Guard troops he deployed to the city. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said the deployment was intended to “manufacture chaos and violence.”Videos show the National Guard troops have largely refrained from clashing with demonstrators, and most of the sprawling city kept to its usual sunlit rhythms. But in downtown Los Angeles, protesters and police, taking cover beneath an overpass, clashed for hours before nightfall on Sunday. Officers fired gas and other munitions, while demonstrators tossed scooters and aimed fireworks and stones at police vehicles, some of which started burning.As state officials urged protesters to be peaceful, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell warned that clashes on the streets were “getting increasingly worse and more violent,” though he blamed that on “people who do this all the time,” not people protesting immigration raids. Striking a different tone than other California officials, Chief McDonnell told reporters that although his department would not have initially requested assistance from the National Guard, “looking at the violence today, I think we’ve got to make a reassessment.”By midnight, the darkened streets of downtown bore evidence of a tumultuous day: burned cars, broken barricades, crushed water bottles, upturned traffic cones and graffiti scrawled across government buildings.More than 150 people had been arrested in Los Angeles since Friday, officials said, and about 60 others were arrested in San Francisco, where a solidarity protest turned violent. On Monday, demonstrators planned to gather outside the State Capitol in Sacramento to protest the arrest of a prominent labor leader.Here’s what else to know:Normal life: Most of Los Angeles operated as usual on Sunday. There was a Pride parade and music at the Hollywood Bowl, along with traffic jams and swim meets. Read more ›Marching in solidarity: Some of the people demonstrating in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday said they were first- or second-generation immigrants showing solidarity with their neighbors or family members. Read more ›Newsom and Trump: For most of this year, Governor Newsom has chosen conciliation over confrontation in dealings with the president. On Friday, he spent 40 minutes on the phone with Mr. Trump to discuss the immigration protests. But the president’s decision to send in National Guard troops seemed likely to shatter whatever delicate balance the governor was trying to maintain. Read more ›Mexican flags: Latin American flags emerged as emblems in the weekend protests. Trump officials have cast flag wavers as insurrectionists and seemed to assume that they are not U.S. citizens. But for many protesters who are American citizens, the flag signifies pride in their roots. Read more ›A rare decision: One expert said Mr. Trump’s order for the troops was the first time since 1965 that a president had activated a state’s National Guard force for a domestic operation without a state governor’s request for the purposes of quelling unrest or enforcing the law. That year, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators. Read more ›June 9, 2025, 7:59 a.m. ETThe Los Angeles Police Department has declared all of the city’s downtown an unlawful assembly area, and early Monday issued an alert for demonstrators to leave the Civic Center area, a site of protests. “Those with cell phones in the area of the Civic Center have received the alert,” the police department said in a post on social media.June 9, 2025, 7:47 a.m. ETMembers of the California National Guard outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles on Sunday.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York TimesPresident Trump and his F.B.I. director sharply defended the administration’s tough stance against largely peaceful immigration protests in Los Angeles, criticizing California’s political leaders for what they said was a lax attitude to law enforcement.“These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLERATED,” Mr. Trump said in a post Sunday on his Truth Social network, labeling Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles, both Democrats, “incompetent.”The comments indicated that the president was doubling down on his aggressive response to the protests against his administration’s immigration policies, even as California leaders accused Mr. Trump of attempting to inflame the situation for political gain.Though the demonstrations have been mostly peaceful, Mr. Trump went over Mr. Newsom’s head in ordering the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell the protests. Over the weekend, scattered clashes between local law enforcement officials and crowds led to dozens of arrests, property damage and road closures, though much of Los Angeles has been undisturbed. Videos show the National Guard troops have largely refrained from clashing with demonstrators.Mr. Newsom and Ms. Bass said that the administration had overstepped its authority in deploying the troops, and the governor formally demanded that Mr. Trump withdraw the National Guard, accusing him of seeking to “manufacture chaos and violence.” The two leaders have for months been a target of the president, in part, perhaps, because Mr. Newsom is seen as a possible presidential contender.In January, Mr. Trump criticized their response to wildfires that devastated parts of Los Angeles. “Just look at how they handled the fires,” the president said on Sunday, adding that the two were now “permitting disaster” with the immigration protests.The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, sought to demonize the protesters, declaring that Los Angeles was “under siege by marauding criminals,” even though there was evidence of only scattered unrest and the vast majority of the city was quiet.Mr. Trump also seized on comments by Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell, who struck a different tone from other California leaders. Chief McDonnell said that while he would not initially have requested National Guard assistance, he would reassess that position because clashes on the streets were getting “more violent.”In a Truth Social post, Mr. Trump said Chief McDonnell was “highly respected” and urged him, “Don’t let these thugs get away with this.”June 9, 2025, 7:09 a.m. ETThe city of Glendale, Calif., announced Sunday it was terminating its contract with U.S. Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and would no longer allow the agencies to house federal immigration detainees at its police department facility.Glendale “recognizes that public perception of the ICE contract — no matter how limited or carefully managed, no matter the good — has become divisive,” the city, in Los Angeles County, said in a statement. “The Glendale Police Department is trusted and supported by the residents and businesses, and in turn, our officers work every day to protect and serve with professionalism and care. At this time, it is in our best interest to not allow that trust to be undermined.”The announcement came after protesters in parts of Los Angeles clashed with police officers and federal law enforcement for a third consecutive day on Sunday.“The city manager’s decision to end this contract was made after careful evaluation of legal, operational and community considerations,” the city said in its statement. It emphasized that the decision was not “politically driven.”For years, the federal authorities have relied on detention contracts with local governments and for-profit companies to help house individuals detained by federal immigration agencies. These private ICE detention centers have become a cash cow and a crucial cog in the Trump administration’s plans to detain and deport thousands of immigrants.The contracts can also include town and city governments, that obtain federal contracts to hold immigration detainees in local facilities. The city of Glendale had such an arrangement since 2007, it said.While housed in the facility in Glendale, immigration detainees had access to clean facilities, medical care, family visitation and legal counsel, the city said. But, it added, the police department’s association with ICE activities risked undermining public trust.“The Glendale Police Department does not enforce immigration law,” the city said.June 9, 2025, 6:37 a.m. ETGov. Gavin Newsom of California accused President Trump on Sunday of fomenting trouble in Los Angeles by calling in the National Guard. “Local law enforcement didn’t need help,” Newsom said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “Trump sent troops anyway — to manufacture chaos and violence,” Newsom said. “Now things are destabilized and we need to send in more law enforcement just to clean up Trump’s mess.”June 9, 2025, 2:54 a.m. ETProtesters standing on a freeway in Los Angeles on Sunday.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York TimesSome of the people demonstrating in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday said they were first- or second-generation immigrants showing solidarity with neighbors or family members, and a few expressed anger that neighbors had received deportation orders.“This is a real threat, this is not just talk,” said Zander Calderon, 36, from northeast Los Angeles. He said he knew several people who had received such orders, as well as one neighbor who had self-deported.“He didn’t want to live in fear,” Mr. Calderon, who wore a poncho with an image of the Virgin Mary and the colors of the Mexican flag.Others said that although they were not regular protesters, the federal government’s recent immigration raids had motivated them to take action.“This morning I couldn’t stay home anymore,” said Elizabeth Torres, 36, who was carrying a Mexican flag outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. “If the people that are detained can see me through the windows, just know that you’re not alone.”Martín Hoecker-Martinez, a physics professor who was waving an American and a Colombian flag, said that he had traveled about an hour and a half to join the protests.“I’m an American citizen, and I think that one of the greatest points of pride of the United States is that we are a country of immigrants,” said Professor Hoecker-Martinez, whose mother came from Colombia. “I bristle when people deride the U.S. government as the embodiment of our collective will.”Nicole Garcia, 35, attended the protest with her teenage son. She said that while she worried about the safety risks of bringing him along, she wanted him to understand “what it looks like when community comes together.” Ms. Garcia, who described herself as Mexican American, was veiled and wore a floral wreath and face paint symbolizing the Mexican Day of the Dead.Brianna Vargas, 24, who was standing on an overpass above the U.S. 101 highway with a megaphone in hand, said she was protesting for her parents, who had emigrated from Mexico and El Salvador, and for others who were too afraid to leave their homes.Reposting messages of solidarity with victims of immigration enforcement raids on social media is one thing, she said. “It’s different when you’re actually here.”June 9, 2025, 2:47 a.m. ETWhile the Los Angeles Police Department has cleared most of downtown, there are still sporadic reports of violence and protests in the area. The department has ordered everyone to leave the Civic Center area after declaring the assembly unlawful, and it is investigating reports of looting nearby.June 9, 2025, 2:09 a.m. ETLate Sunday, Glendale, a city in Los Angeles County, said it had ended its contract with ICE to hold immigrants at its police department, saying the contract had become divisive and that it wanted to avoid the “unruly and unlawful behavior” seen in recent days.June 9, 2025, 2:48 a.m. ETGlendale was one of many local municipalities across the United States that agreed, for a fee, to house immigrants awaiting transfers to federal custody. The arrangement, governed by a 1996 law, allows small jails to earn extra money. The Trump administration has used the agreement to make local authorities work more closely with the federal government.June 9, 2025, 1:40 a.m. ETIt’s past 10:30 p.m. and helicopters are circling downtown Los Angeles where protests are still ongoing.June 9, 2025, 1:25 a.m. ETThe Los Angeles Police Department said it had detained the man who appeared to aim a van at protesters. “Multiple charges to follow,” the police said. It was unclear if the man possessed a weapon.June 9, 2025, 1:20 a.m. ETProtesters and police clash during a protest in opposition to federal deportation operations near an ICE facility in San Francisco on Sunday.Credit...Loren Elliott for The New York TimesAt least 60 people were arrested on Sunday in downtown San Francisco as police officers clashed with protesters who had been demonstrating to support the protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles.At least two police officers were injured and public transit vehicles were damaged, the San Francisco Police Department said. The protest began on Sunday evening as a calm gathering to show solidarity with those in Los Angeles, but it quickly turned violent with protesters and police officers physically fighting on a downtown street.The gathering began outside the offices of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Sansome Street in the shadow of the TransAmerica Pyramid. One protester was dressed as a flamboyant Statue of Liberty while others waved pride flags and carried signs including “Softball Dad Against Tyranny.”But the peaceful, colorful atmosphere grew dark when some protesters led a march up Sansome Street to a line of San Francisco Police Department officers dressed in riot gear and holding batons.At least one protester hurled an egg in the officers’ direction. Another threw a glass bottle that shattered on the ground just behind the officers. The group chanted, “Fascist pigs, off our streets!” and “Why are you in riot gear? We don’t see a riot here.”The protesters moved in closer, some coming within inches of the officers’ masks. After a tense standoff, dozens more police officers in riot gear ran down the hill to join their colleagues, and others sped past on motorcycles.Protesters picked up metal barricades and pushed them toward the officers who pushed them back, both sides grasping the same blockades and ramming them at each other. Soon, it appeared both sides were brawling.Spear Mintech, 35, was carrying a cardboard sign reading “This is what a police state looks like.” He was near the front of the group of protesters and said several officers hit him in the chest with closed fists as they tried to push the crowd back.“I think they were frustrated with us exercising our freedom of speech,” he said. “It seemed like they were angry and just wanted to hit me. They were very eager to be violent.”He said he had been so disturbed by President Trump sending National Guard troops into Los Angeles to quell protests that he searched online to see whether any protests of solidarity were happening in San Francisco — and found this one.Courtney Liss, a 31-year-old trial lawyer, said she joined the protest because she has been outraged by reports that undocumented families who were obeying orders to check in at immigration court were being picked up by ICE agents after they arrived.City Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the heavily Latino Mission district, said last week that children, including one as young as 3, had been detained by ICE agents at the San Francisco courthouse.Ms. Liss said she was standing to the side of the protest on Sunday when the police charged forward.“They were shoving people back, and they shoved me into a fire hydrant,” she said. “I got hit with a baton three times.”She said it was notable that when she attended a recent protest conducted by lawyers, all in suits, there was no response from the police department.During the Sunday clash, an officer repeatedly called out instructions through a loudspeaker, but the sound was so garbled, the words were difficult to understand. It appeared to be a dispersal order.As the clash went on, some protesters tried to lead others away to calm the tension, but others seemed ready to fight. A few threw garbage cans and traffic cones into the middle of the street and one was spotted smashing the glass window of Chase Bank.Up and down Sansome Street there was graffiti, including “Death to ICE” and “Kill a Cop.” Some protesters continued along Market Street as officers trailed them. At 9 p.m., the Bay Area Rapid Transit system shut down one of its downtown subway stations as a result of what it said was a “civil disturbance.”June 9, 2025, 12:59 a.m. ETA man appeared to aim his van at protesters near a gas station in downtown Los Angeles, according to video on social media and eyewitness accounts. “Everyone was like ‘He has a gun, he has a gun,’” said Leilani Rodriguez, 27, a protester. Some people ran and others pelted the van with objects, she said. It was unclear if the man had been detained or if authorities were aware of the incident.Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York TimesJune 9, 2025, 12:36 a.m. ETThe LAPD has ordered everyone that remains in downtown to leave immediately, declaring any gatherings unlawful.June 9, 2025, 12:18 a.m. ETMimi DwyerReporting from Los Angeles CountyLarge swaths of downtown Los Angeles are cleared of cars and blocked off by police, who are not letting anyone through. Away from the protests, the streets are desolate other than groups of police staging on foot and on horseback.June 9, 2025, 12:14 a.m. ETIt’s dark in downtown Los Angeles and the streets surrounding city hall bear the evidence of a day of protest: graffiti is scrawled across government buildings and the streets are littered with crushed water bottles and other trash.June 9, 2025, 12:02 a.m. ETAfter multiple Waymo robot taxis were vandalized and set on fire downtown, the company cut off service to the area and is removing vehicles from the streets, according to a spokesperson.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York TimesJune 8, 2025, 11:48 p.m. ETChief McDonnell said the people who are protesting against the immigration raids are not the people who have been engaging in violence. The violence is being carried out by “people who do this all the time,” he said.June 8, 2025, 11:42 p.m. ETThe LAPD have arrested 10 people so far on Sunday, and another 29 were arrested yesterday, officials said. Three officials suffered minor injuries on Sunday.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York TimesJune 8, 2025, 11:26 p.m. ETLAPD Police Chief Jim McDonnell said at a news conference the violence “is getting increasingly worse and more violent.” “We are overwhelmed as far as the number of people out there engaged in this type of activity.”Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York TimesJune 8, 2025, 11:41 p.m. ETChief McDonnell, asked whether the National Guard was needed, said, “This thing has gotten out of control.” He said that although the LAPD would not have initially requested assistance from the National Guard, “looking at the violence today, I think we’ve got to make a reassessment.”June 8, 2025, 10:55 p.m. ETElon Musk is reposting on X messages that President Trump is sharing about the California protests. This appears to be a sign that Musk is trying to get back into good standing with Trump, after a week of attacking him and insinuating that he had been up to no good with Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has said he has no interest in reconciling with Musk, but the two camps have been in touch privately in an effort to settle the feud.June 8, 2025, 10:39 p.m. ETIt’s dusk in downtown Los Angeles and the crowd of protesters has spread out, but hundreds of people are still gathered above the 101 freeway. Some were hurling trash at California Highway Patrol officers, who were taking cover beneath an overpass and responding with tear gas and flash bangs.“You think this scares me?”yelled one of the protesters.Credit...Orlando MayorquinJune 8, 2025, 10:31 p.m. ETProtests outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on Sunday.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York TimesOne of the crowd-control munitions used against protesters in Los Angeles is a 37-millimeter foam baton round, which is intended to be a less than lethal projectile. One of those rounds was recovered on Sunday, though it is unclear which agency was responsible.The foam baton gained popularity as a way of dispersing protesters following the 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd. It takes less training to use these batons than other crowd-control munitions, according to an independent examination of the LAPD’s 2020 response to the George Floyd protests.A foam projectile that was fired into a crowd of protesters on Sunday.Credit...Livia Albeck-Ripka“The 37-mm foam baton round — the measurement refers to the round’s diameter — may be indirectly fired at crowds of people by firing or skipping the round along the ground in front of the group police intended to disperse. This less lethal tool requires less specialized training and practice to use properly,” the report said.Other foam projectiles carry a greater chance of fatal injury. The 40-millimeter launcher, for instance, is not used for crowd dispersion but rather is meant to be aimed at specific people in a crowd, according to the 2020 report.While most 40-millimeter and 37-millimeter projectiles used for crowd dispersion are meant to be less lethal, injuries and deaths from their use have been reported. A 2023 Amnesty International and Omega Research Foundation report found that police departments around the world regularly misuse these kind of munitions, like the 37-mm foam baton round, leading to more injuries and death.June 8, 2025, 10:30 p.m. ETCalifornia National Guard members secured the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles on Sunday.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York TimesSeveral hundred soldiers were deployed to the streets of Los Angeles on Sunday, as demonstrations against President Trump’s immigration crackdown raged for a third day. The troops were members of the California National Guard, called in by the president against the wishes of Gov. Gavin Newsom.Not since 1965 has a president summoned a state’s National Guard against the will of a governor. Mr. Trump cited a rarely used law enabling him to bypass the governor in the event of “a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.” Mr. Newsom called the move a “serious breach of state sovereignty” and asked Mr. Trump to reverse his order.The National Guard is a state-based military force made up of hundreds of thousands of trained soldiers who live in communities across the country and typically serve only part time. Most hold civilian jobs or attend college.All new recruits must pass basic training. Once they’re in, they participate in regular drills, usually one weekend each month, and a two-week-long training each year. The tradition of state-based militias is older than the nation itself. The National Guard traces its history to 1636, when the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony formally organized its militia into regiments. Militias composed of nonprofessional civilian soldiers played a critical role in the Revolutionary War and, when the first standing American army was established in 1775, state militias continued to exist alongside it.Guard troops are activated only when they need to be — most often during natural disasters, wars or civil unrest. Both governors and the president have the power to activate the National Guard. A president’s decision to activate the Guard often comes at the request of state or local officials. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush did so in response to the Rodney King riots after California’s governor asked him to.At Sunday’s protests in Los Angeles, National Guard troops appeared to largely refrain from engaging with demonstrators, even as federal immigration and homeland security officers and the city police fired crowd-control munitions at the protesters.Before this weekend, a president had not overridden the state’s governor to send the National Guard in to quell civil unrest since 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson deployed the Alabama National Guard to protect civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala.More often, governors activate the Guard to help respond to urgent circumstances at the state level, like severe weather. In January, Governor Newsom activated at least 1,680 members of the California National Guard to help secure evacuation zones after fires ripped through Los Angeles. Thousands of Guard members responded to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And hundreds helped direct traffic, search for survivors and battle the flames during a devastating fire in Lahaina, Hawaii, in 2023.The National Guard has two parts: the Army Guard and the Air Guard. Each functions as the main reserve force for the associated branch of the military, and troops can be deployed overseas to support military operations abroad. Guard members played a major role in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: At one point in 2005, the National Guard made up more than half of all American combat brigades in Iraq, according to a fact sheet published by the Guard. More recently, the guard has also helped train and support the Ukrainian military.June 8, 2025, 10:21 p.m. ETHundreds of protesters have marched up a street in San Francisco toward a line of San Francisco police officers in riot gear. The protesters are screaming “Fascist pigs, off our streets!” At least one threw an egg toward the officers and both groups are within inches of each other. Many of the protesters are carrying signs expressing support for demonstrators in Los Angeles and saying ICE should be abolished.Credit...Loren Elliott for The New York TimesJune 8, 2025, 10:02 p.m. ETAs night began in Los Angeles, California leaders were encouraging protesters to be peaceful. In a post on X, Governor Newsom said that President Trump is escalating tensions by threatening to deploy 500 active-duty Marines to Los Angeles. “Los Angeles: Remain peaceful,” Mr. Newsom said. Senator Adam B. Schiff also urged calm among Angelenos, saying that violence “plays directly into the hands of those who seek to antagonize and weaponize the situation for their own gain.”June 8, 2025, 9:51 p.m. ETThe 55th Annual Los Angeles Pride Parade was held in Hollywood on Sunday.Credit...Blake Fagan/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe Los Angeles Pride parade went forward without delay. At the Hollywood Bowl, Hugh Jackman and The Roots headlined for the opening weekend. The “June gloom” fog, as Southern Californians call it, burned off in time for traffic to jam under clear afternoon skies as families fanned out to swim meets, to beaches, to churches, to parks.“It’s a beautiful, sunny day,” one parking attendant at Hollywood Burbank Airport marveled.As the first National Guard troops rumbled into Los Angeles on Sunday, summoned by the Trump administration to quell protests against an immigration crackdown, Los Angeles remained its eternal self — bigger than any one disruption. Los Angeles County, all 4,000 square miles of it, has a way of insulating and isolating mayhem, man-made or otherwise.As clashes have broken out between protesters, federal agents and police officers, life — that uniquely sunlit and serene Southern California version of it — mostly unfolded peaceably. It’s not that those elsewhere were oblivious to what was happening. It’s just that there was space for the one to not interrupt the other.On Sunday, at a park in the Silver Lake neighborhood, children sprinted across the grass and a tent was set up for a birthday celebration. The day before, in Compton, as sheriff’s deputies pushed demonstrators out of the intersection they had occupied for hours, Saturday night plans carried on about a block away in homes and apartments. The echoes of a Spanish-language birthday song boomed from a backyard party. At another home, a live band performed on a front lawn.“One of the defining factors of L.A. is that it’s so very hard to define because it is so vast and so diverse,” said Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School. “I live on a hill overlooking the city, and this is not like the 1992 riots. I don’t see helicopters. I don’t see fires raging. In places like the West Side it’s largely business as usual.”The chaotic demonstrations that consumed social media and cable news in recent days were concentrated around only a couple parts of the region — the working-class suburb of Paramount, where federal agents clashed with protesters near a Home Depot, and downtown Los Angeles.It was in the downtown area around federal properties that the first convoys settled on Sunday, rows of big green military vehicles manned by troops in camouflage. The deployment stunned Mayor Karen Bass.“Our city is still trying to recover from the wildfires, and you just think about how so many people were impacted by that, and that’s an example of where the administration was helpful, and to go from that situation to where we are now is just really tragic, and I think is so unfortunate,” Ms. Bass told reporters on Sunday. “It’s the last thing Los Angeles needs.”Professor Levinson texted a picture of her hilltop view: palm trees, quiet streets, a children’s play structure. “At this moment, I can’t tell which way things will tip,” she said. “Will we take a breath? Will we fight this? Who knows? We’re all just looking at each other right now, going, like, ‘What’s next?’”Jill Cowan and Orlando Mayorquín contributed reporting.June 8, 2025, 9:49 p.m. ETU.S. Northern Command said on Sunday night that 500 Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines stationed at Twentynine Palms, Calif. have been put on “prepare to deploy” status in case federal officials decide they are needed to back up the 2,000 National Guard troops that President Trump has ordered to Los Angeles.The “prepare to deploy” orders represent a formal activation, officials said, as opposed to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s posts on social media platforms over the weekend in which he said that he had active duty Marines on what he called “high alert” to respond to protests.Defense officials said that as of late Sunday, the 500 Marines had not moved to any staging areas off their base, around 150 miles east of Los Angeles.June 8, 2025, 9:19 p.m. ETRepresentative Maxine Waters was denied entry into a federal Bureau of Prisons facility in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.Credit...Eric Thayer/Associated PressThree Democratic members of Congress from California and two from New York said over the weekend that they were barred from entering federal detention centers in their respective states to check on people who were detained in immigration raids or in protests against the raids.All five members — Representatives Maxine Waters, Jimmy Gomez and Norma Torres of California and Representatives Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velázquez of New York — said that they should have been allowed to enter the buildings as members of Congress.The California representatives said they were turned away from the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Ms. Waters said on Sunday that she had tried to see David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union California, on Friday, after he was arrested and apparently injured while protesting the raids.Video of Ms. Waters outside the building showed a door being shut in her face as she said, “I need to get in.”“I don’t know why he was targeted,” Ms. Waters said of Mr. Huerta, who is a U.S. citizen. “I don’t know what they’re doing with him.” Mr. Huerta is expected to be arraigned on Monday.Federal officials, who have said Mr. Huerta was blocking a law enforcement vehicle, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Ms. Waters’ account.Mr. Gomez and Ms. Torres had said they were denied entry to the same building on Saturday. In a video, Mr. Gomez said that as members of Congress, he and Ms. Torres have the right to oversee the well-being of those being detained and their conditions. He said that officers outside the building had sprayed an irritant into the air to deter them from approaching.“This is really to prevent us from doing our jobs,” Mr. Gomez said. Ms. Torres said that it was “unconscionable” that federal agents would spray an irritant at members of Congress.In New York, Mr. Espaillat and Ms. Velázquez said that they were barred on Sunday from entering an immigration detention facility on the 10th floor of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Manhattan to investigate reports of overcrowding, stifling heat and migrants sleeping on bathroom floors.They said officials had denied them access because it was a “sensitive facility.” The building, near City Hall, has been the site of protests against the transport of migrants there by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.“Today, ICE violated all of our rights,” Mr. Espaillat said on Sunday. “We deserve to know what’s going on on the 10th floor.”He added, “If there’s nothing wrong, there’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to go in to see it.”Ms. Velázquez said she was outraged about being turned away. “Our duty is to supervise any federal building,” she said and added, “This is not Russia; this is the United States of America. The president of the United States is not a king.”A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, said that the lawmakers had shown up unannounced. ICE officials had told them, she said, that they “would be happy to give them a tour with a little more notice, when it would not disrupt ongoing law enforcement activities and sensitive law enforcement items could be put away.”The representatives arrived a day after dozens of protesters at the New York complex tried to block ICE vehicles carrying migrants. That demonstration erupted in a clash with police officers, some of whom blasted protesters with pepper spray. The police said 22 people were taken into custody.The nonprofit Immigrant Defenders Law Center said in a statement on Saturday that it had received reports that federal agents had refused to allow those detained at federal immigration facilities access to lawyers, and that people had been denied food or water for more than 12 hours. Lindsay Toczylowski, the president of the organization, said in a statement that the Department of Homeland Security was “treating federal facilities like islands of lawlessness within our city.”June 8, 2025, 8:50 p.m. ETMimi Dwyer and Nicole StockReporting from Los AngelesSeveral Waymo driverless taxis have now caught fire on Los Angeles Street, with protesters painting graffiti and posing in front of the burning vehicles. Others are warning about the electric vehicles’ batteries exploding. “Watch out! That’s toxic!” One person said. The police are not on the scene. In front of the burning vehicles, people appear to be setting off fireworks.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York TimesVideoCreditCredit...Mimi Dwyer for The New York TimesJune 8, 2025, 8:46 p.m. ETJesus Jiménez and Jill CowanJesus Jiménez reported from Pasadena and Jill Cowan reported from Los AngelesProtesters came together across the street from the AC Hotel Pasadena. Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York TimesOutside the upscale AC Hotel Pasadena on Sunday afternoon, dozens of demonstrators flooded the sidewalks, chanted “ICE is not welcome here” and blasted songs in Spanish. They entreated passing drivers to honk their horns in support, and many obliged, some raising fists out their windows. The scene contrasted sharply with the violence unfolding about 11 miles away in downtown Los Angeles.“I would say to you that the protest that I’m at is more of a celebration of our pride and culture as immigrants,” said Mayor Victor Gordo, who immigrated from Mexico with his family as a young child.The demonstration was one of several taking place across the Los Angeles region on Sunday afternoon that were prompted by reported sightings of federal immigration officials.In the case of the AC Hotel Pasadena, sightings of a few federal vehicles in the parking lot quickly transformed into rumors of raids. Those rumors then spread on social media, prompting protesters to show up outside the hotel.But Lisa Derderian, the spokeswoman for the city of Pasadena, said that there had not been any immigration enforcement operations in the city on Sunday. She said that federal personnel had stayed in at least two of the city’s hotels. Ms. Derderian said that the Pasadena Police Department was monitoring the demonstration, but that so far, there had not been any problems.Mr. Gordo, the mayor, said he was proud to see members of his community, his constituents, turning out to support immigrants like him — and like his parents, who were undocumented immigrants from Mexico.“It is personal and painful to see what I and many others experienced in our youth reoccur,” he said.Mr. Gordo, who grew up in Pasadena and whose father worked for 50 years at the now-closed Ranchero’s Mexican Restaurant, recalled knowing that there was a Folgers coffee can in the family’s garage that contained cash and copies of birth certificates and other documents. If his parents ever failed to come home, he said, he was supposed to take the can to a neighbor’s to ask for help. He was about five years old at the time.He said he hoped that National Guard troops would not show up in Pasadena.June 8, 2025, 8:32 p.m. ETHamed AleazizDepartment of Homeland Security reporterIf you want to know how the White House is feeling about the protests in Los Angeles, look no further than the X account of Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s deputy chief of staff. Mr. Miller has been closely following the protests in Los Angeles this weekend and posting messages on social media describing what he’s seen as an “insurrection” at times. But on Sunday evening, Mr. Miller appeared to go a step further, insinuating that Los Angeles had been taken over: “Look at all the foreign flags. Los Angeles is occupied territory,” he wrote in a message on X above a post showing a live feed from the protests. Mr. Miller grew up in Santa Monica, not far from downtown Los Angeles.June 8, 2025, 8:21 p.m. ETEven as she assailed the Trump administration for stoking turmoil, Bass said that not all of the protesters had been demonstrating peacefully. She said throwing things at officers or blocking traffic on a freeway crossed a line. For those who contributed to unrest, she added, “You’re going to suffer the consequences of doing that.”Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York TimesJune 8, 2025, 8:24 p.m. ET“I don’t want people to fall into the chaos that I believe is being created by the administration,” she said.