PinnedLos Angeles was quiet on Sunday morning as the first members of the National Guard arrived in the city, where President Trump took the extraordinary action of ordering them to assist immigration agents who clashed with demonstrators during two days of protests.Mr. Trump’s decision to order in the guard made rare use of federal powers to bypass the authority of California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, who called the deployment “purposefully inflammatory” on Saturday night and added that there was “no unmet need.”Members of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the California National Guard had been deployed to the city, military officials announced, and troops were gathered at the federal prison in downtown Los Angeles. It was the first time that a president has activated a state’s National Guard force for a domestic operation without a request from the state’s governor since 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators.Armed and in camouflage, the troops arrived on Sunday at the start of what was expected to be a third consecutive day of demonstrations over the administration’s recent raids on workplaces in search of undocumented immigrants. One protest was scheduled for City Hall at 2 p.m. local time.Law enforcement officers faced off with hundreds of protesters on Saturday, in some cases using rubber bullets and flash bang grenades. Bill Essayli, the Trump administration’s top law enforcement official in Southern California, described instances of Molotov cocktails being thrown and rocks being thrown at law enforcement agents.Mr. Trump said that any protest or act of violence that impeded officials would be considered a “form of rebellion” as he announced he would mobilize National Guard troops.Officials in California objected. Mr. Newsom said federal officials wanted a “spectacle,” and Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said the presence of National Guard troops would “not be helpful.”Here’s what else to know:Workplace raids: The recent raids appeared to be part of a new phase of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, in which officials say they will increasingly focus on workplaces.Federal powers: Mr. Trump’s order is the first time since 1965 that a president has activated a state’s National Guard force without a request from that state’s governor, according to Elizabeth Goitein, senior director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, an independent law and policy organization.Trading blame: Some of California’s Democratic lawmakers blasted Mr. Trump’s decision to send in the National Guard as an inappropriate use of power, while Republicans criticized the state’s political leadership over their handling of the protests.Latino communities: Some of the most active protests against immigration raids took place in Paramount, a small city some 25 miles southeast of the Hollywood sign that has for decades attracted Latino immigrants.June 8, 2025, 1:52 p.m. ETAs more protesters gathered outside the detention center in downtown Los Angeles, where National Guard troops are deployed, one yelled, “This is a show Trump wants to make L.A. look out of control!”Zander Calderon, 36, who was born and raised in northeast Los Angeles, said he knew several people who had received deportation orders and one neighbor who had self-deported. “This is a real threat, this is not just talk,” said Mr. Calderon, who was wearing a red green and white poncho with an image of the Virgin Mary. “What I fear the most is I fear that we will lose freedom; we will live in a dictatorship,” he said.VideoCreditCredit...Livia Albeck-Ripka/The New York TimesJune 8, 2025, 1:46 p.m. ETTensions grew between the public and federal agents following an operation in Minneapolis on June 3. Credit...Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio, via Associated PressThe Trump administration’s efforts to detain and deport large numbers of immigrants have sparked protests since the early days of President Trump’s term. In the last few weeks, those protests have grown more confrontational.Members of the public have begun to clash with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and police officers at detention centers, or when they are targeting people in workplaces and at court hearings.Here are some of the recent incidents that have inflamed tensions.May 9Newark, N.J.Federal officers arrested Ras J. Baraka, the Democratic mayor of Newark, at an ICE detention center that he sought to visit along with three members of Congress while protesters were gathered outside. Mr. Baraka was charged with trespassing; he was released a few hours later, and the charges against him were dropped soon after.MAY 30San DiegoWhen a large team of ICE agents appeared in tactical gear at a popular Italian restaurant to arrest three workers, a crowd quickly gathered outside to protest the action, and the situation grew heated. The agents threw flash-bang grenades at the crowd as they exited the scene, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The incident prompted demonstrations and criticism of ICE’s tactics.JUNE 3MinneapolisActivists saw dozens of federal agents from ICE and other agencies raiding a Mexican restaurant, in south Minneapolis, and a crowd descended on the scene, shouting “Shame!” and tussling with officers. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that federal agents used tear gas at one point to disperse the crowd. A protester was arrested and charged with assaulting an officer, the newspaper reported. Federal officials said the raid was focused on human trafficking and drug smuggling, not immigration enforcement.JUNE 6Los AngelesDozens of federal agents in tactical gear who were conducting an immigration raid on a clothing wholesaler used flash-bang grenades to disperse an angry crowd. Protesters jeered and threw eggs and other objects at the agents’ vehicles as they drove away. Hours later, a second clash broke out at the federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles, where people detained in the raid and several others conducted in the region the same day were taken. Officers fired less-than-lethal projectiles and used what appeared to be pepper spray on the crowd, and some protesters threw a chair and other objects at the police.JUNE 7New York CityProtesters outside a building on Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, angered by reports of ICE enforcement actions in the area, clashed with the police and formed a human chain to block a van that they thought might be carrying detainees from leaving the scene, CBS News reported. More than 20 protesters were arrested.JUNE 7Paramount and Compton, Calif.Protesters clashed with federal agents near a Home Depot store in Paramount, Calif., set up a barricade and got into a standoff with law enforcement officers that lasted late into the night. Protesters also gathered and confronted the authorities outside a doughnut shop in nearby Compton, Calif. The police used less-than-lethal priojectiles, tear gas and flash-bang grenades against the protesters.June 8, 2025, 1:20 p.m. ETNearly 300 members of the California Guard have so far taken up positions at three sites around Los Angeles, according to the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom. They are the first of what President Trump said would be at least 2,000 National Guard members being sent here to deal with the demonstrations. Izzy Gardon, a spokesman for Newsom, said the soldiers had been deployed after Trump said on social media that they were already on hand and credited them with turning the situation around.June 8, 2025, 1:00 p.m. ETThe American Civil Liberties Union has condemned President Trump’s order to federalize National Guard forces. Hina Shamsi, who directs the A.C.L.U.’s National Security Project, called the action “unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power.”“The Trump administration is putting Angelenos in danger, creating legal and ethical jeopardy for troops, and recklessly undermining our foundational democratic principle that the military should not police civilians,” she said in a statement overnight.June 8, 2025, 12:56 p.m. ETLast night, as news was breaking about President Trump federalizing the National Guard over the objections of California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, the president was engrossed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship in New Jersey. He sat ringside, beside the U.F.C. chief executive Dana White, an ardent supporter, for three hours watching cage fights and interacting with the fighters, many of whom are also Trump fans.This morning, the president is at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and was set to fly to Camp David this afternoon to meet with senior members of his team. He does not often go to Camp David and we don’t have any details, yet, on the specific purpose of the trip.June 8, 2025, 12:52 p.m. ETMimi DwyerReporting from Los Angeles CountyOn Alondra Boulevard in Compton, the streets are quiet after last night’s protests. About 15 people came to clean up the mess of rubber bullets, tear gas canisters and other projectiles shot by law enforcement. “Everyone loves to come to Compton and tear it up,” said Elaina Angel, 30. “But who’s going to come help us clean it up?” She rallied her family this morning, and they bought brooms, trash bags and gloves to collect the hundreds of objects littering the street.June 8, 2025, 12:46 p.m. ETA handful of protesters and onlookers have begun gathering outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, where the smell of tear gas still lingers in the air from the protests overnight. More than 20 National Guard troops have been at the center since early morning, and have spent most of that time milling around or talking in small groups. At one point, a few troops left the scene on a bus.June 8, 2025, 11:26 a.m. ETThe troops deploying to the Los Angeles area are from the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the California National Guard, United States Northern Command said in a post on the social media platform X. Northcom said that some of the troops were already on the ground. A Northcom spokeswoman said more information would be provided soon.#USNORTHCOM can confirm that elements of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team from the California National Guard have begun deploying to the Los Angeles area, with some already on the ground. Additional information will be provided as units are identified and deployed. pic.twitter.com/BxqZM2YG1G— U.S. Northern Command (@USNorthernCmd) June 8, 2025June 8, 2025, 11:13 a.m. ETKristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, appearing on the CBS program “Face the Nation” Sunday, declined to give details about the National Guard deployment in Los Angeles. Asked if troops would remove protesters’ masks, she said, “I won’t get more specific on that, just because we never do when it comes to law enforcement operations.” President Trump said on Saturday that face coverings would not be tolerated at protests.June 8, 2025, 11:01 a.m. ETSeveral military vehicles and a handful of National Guard troops were gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles early Sunday morning. The streets were otherwise largely quiet. Roads near the center and other federal buildings were closed, and a small group had begun gathering in the park behind Los Angeles City Hall for a planned march for maternal and child health.VideoCreditCredit...Livia Albeck-Ripka/The New York TimesJune 8, 2025, 10:46 a.m. ETDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s suggestion came after President Trump ordered at least 2,000 National Guard members to assist immigration agents following two days of clashes with demonstrators.Credit...Eric Lee/The New York TimesGov. Gavin Newsom of California sharply criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said that active duty Marines could be mobilized as part of the federal government’s response to protests against immigration raids in the Los Angeles area.Mr. Hegseth’s suggestion came on Saturday after President Trump ordered at least 2,000 National Guard members to assist immigration agents following two days of clashes with demonstrators. Some of the demonstrations have been unruly, but local officials had not asked for federal assistance and Mr. Trump issued the order under a rarely used law to bypass Mr. Newsom’s authority.Mr. Hegseth welcomed the president’s decision as “common sense” and said that Marines at Camp Pendleton, about 100 miles south of Los Angeles, were on high alert. They could be deployed to deal with any violence, he said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.Raising and lowering the alert status for active duty troops is within the purview of the defense secretary, but actually deploying those troops can be done only by the president. To do so, Mr. Trump would need to invoke the Insurrection Act because deploying active duty troops on American streets is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits direct involvement of federal troops in law enforcement.That did not stop Mr. Hegseth from threatening to deploy Marines, though he did so from his personal social media account and not his official secretary of defense account.Mr. Newsom said in a post on social media overnight that Mr. Hegseth was “threatening to deploy active-duty Marines on American soil against its own citizens.” He added, “This is deranged behavior.”Mr. Hegseth responded on Sunday morning, “Deranged=Allowing your city to burn & law enforcement to be attacked.” He added: “The National Guard, and Marines if need be, stand with ICE,” a reference to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Mr. Hegseth’s predecessors, including during the first Trump administration, have tried to keep the active duty military off American streets. In 2020, when Mr. Trump wanted to deploy the 82nd Airborne to rein in Black Lives Matters protesters, Mark T. Esper, the defense secretary at the time, Gen. Mark A. Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked him out of it. Mr. Esper broke publicly with Mr. Trump over the issue, telling reporters that the deployment of active duty troops in a domestic law enforcement role “should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations.”Governors almost always control the deployment of National Guard troops in their states. But the order signed by Mr. Trump on Saturday cites a provision within Title 10 of the U.S. Code on Armed Services that allows the federal deployment of National Guard forces if “there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”Mr. Trump’s directive also authorized the secretary of defense to “employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion.”It is rare for the Marines to be deployed for law enforcement purposes. In 1992, President George Bush, at the request of California’s governor, sent Marines from Camp Pendleton to suppress riots in Los Angeles.June 8, 2025, 4:12 a.m. ETA scene in Paramount, Calif., on Saturday.Credit...Eric Thayer/Associated PressAs President Trump ordered at least 2,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles County on Saturday, some of the most active protests against immigration raids in the area were taking place near a Home Depot in Paramount, a small city some 25 miles southeast of the Hollywood sign. Law enforcement officers used flash-bang grenades and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators.The mood had been tense in the city ever since Mr. Trump took office for the second time with promises to deport thousands of undocumented immigrants.“Since January, people have lived in fear,” said Jose Luis Solache, a state lawmaker who represents the area. “We saw a decline in our schools’ attendance, we saw a decline in people going to work.”Los Angeles County includes wealthy enclaves like Malibu and Beverly Hills, but also many communities like Paramount that have for decades attracted Latino immigrants who clean hotel rooms in tourist districts, manufacture clothes or work at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.Paramount is one of about two dozen cities ringing Los Angeles’s southeastern border, collectively known as “the Gateway Cities.” Some 82 percent of Paramount’s more than 51,000 residents are Hispanic and about 36 percent are foreign-born, according to census data. Its median household income is $70,900; across Los Angeles County, that number is roughly $87,800.“All these cities — Bell Gardens, Bellflower, Paramount — they are full of working-class Latinos that were able to have a piece of the middle class,” said Hugo Soto-Martinez, a Los Angeles City Council member who previously worked as a labor organizer in the area. “They’re like Latino suburbs.”Trump administration officials have said that the federal government’s immigration crackdown will increasingly focus on workplaces.Angelica Salas, the executive director of CHIRLA, an immigrant rights group in Los Angeles, said that the Paramount area’s dense concentration of immigrants, including undocumented ones, most likely made it a ripe target for immigration enforcement raids.“They don’t care to go to a workplace or have warrants,” Ms. Salas said of federal immigration enforcement authorities. “They just care that brown people are there.”Paramount and other Gateway Cities weren’t always destinations for working families. In the early 20th century, they were agricultural areas.The two villages that would later combine to form Paramount were known as “the Milk Shed of Los Angeles,” according to a city history on its website. In 1948, the city, which wouldn’t be officially incorporated until 1957, was named Paramount for a main street running through town.The area was developed in the decades that followed. Factories and warehouses spread, alongside homes. According to the city history, in the early 1980s, a think tank called Paramount an “urban disaster area.”But in recent years, Paramount has been revitalized as the children of immigrants have sought out more affordable homes and opened businesses. Now, young people catch up over elaborate horchata and coffee concoctions at Horchateria Rio Luna and belt their favorite songs during karaoke nights at Casa Adelita.June 8, 2025, 3:39 a.m. ET“We had Molotov cocktails thrown,” Bill Essayli, a U.S. attorney in California, said of the protests in Los Angeles. Credit...Daniel Cole/ReutersNational Guard troops will arrive in Los Angeles County within the next 24 hours, the Trump administration’s top law enforcement official in Southern California said, to quell protests over immigration enforcement that are “out of control.”Bill Essayli, the interim U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, said in an interview on Saturday night that the 2,000 troops were needed to keep the peace in the sprawling region.The demonstrations began on Friday after an immigration raid at a clothing wholesaler near downtown Los Angeles. Protests continued on Saturday in downtown and across the region. Federal agents responded with military-style rifles and flash-bang grenades, and then President Trump ordered the National Guard to be sent on Saturday.More than 100 people were arrested on Friday, with at least 20 more arrests on Saturday, Mr. Essayli said, mostly in the largely Latino and working-class suburb of Paramount.“They threw rocks at the officers,” Mr. Essayli said. “We had Molotov cocktails thrown. We had all kinds of assaults on agents. The state has an obligation to maintain order and maintain public safety, and they’re unable to do that right now in Los Angeles. So the federal government will send in resources to regain order.”Local authorities did not ask for federal assistance, and California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, said in a social media post that his office had been in touch with local law enforcement and had been told that “they have the resources they need to meet the moment.”Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed back against the president’s order, calling it “purposefully inflammatory.” Mr. Trump had federalized the National Guard “not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle,” Mr. Newsom said.“The governor doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said Mr. Essayli, a former Republican state legislator who before his federal appointment in April was a frequent critic of Mr. Newsom, a Democrat. “It’s all about a political narrative for him. But we’re not doing politics here, we’re doing public safety. We’re out arresting violent criminals, illegal aliens who are in the country unlawfully, who have criminal records.”A spokesman for Mr. Newsom, Izzy Gardon, said Mr. Trump knew that California authorities had longstanding processes in place for handling civil unrest without military intervention.“Mr. Essayli may still be learning the ropes of his new job, but even a rookie should know the president doesn’t need to commandeer 2,000 soldiers to respond to a few hundred protesters — especially before using the standard mutual aid process,” Mr. Gardon said.Mr. Essayli blamed the Saturday protests on “false reporting” that federal agents were about to conduct a sweep at a Home Depot in Paramount and arrest those who could not prove they were in the country legally. He said the agents were setting up to work with a nearby Immigration and Customs Enforcement office to execute arrest warrants or judicial orders for removal for people who had been previously deported.“We were staging for our operations and people spotted the vehicles there, and just made assumptions that weren’t true,” he said.Mr. Essayli would not say where the National Guard troops would be sent when they arrive on Sunday. “But they’re going to primarily be focused on protecting federal property, so I think you can expect to see them at least in downtown L.A.”He said much would depend “on where these agitators are congregating” and blamed the state’s “sanctuary” law for the public’s outrage and confusion. California law bars local law enforcement agencies from conducting federal immigration enforcement, but does allow them to detain undocumented criminals for federal deportation if the detainees have been convicted of any one of hundreds of serious offenses.“The problem is, people have been conditioned to believe that there is an actual sanctuary from immigration laws in California,” Mr. Essayli said. “That is not true. Immigration laws are applicable and will be enforced.”June 8, 2025, 1:22 a.m. ETWatching a protest in Compton, Calif., on Saturday.Credit...Ethan Swope/Associated PressVera Moran, the owner of a bakery in Compton, got a call from an employee on duty Saturday afternoon saying she was going home because she was afraid of the dozens of sheriff’s patrol cars lined up outside.Mrs. Moran had heard that there had been an immigration raid in nearby Paramount, and headed to the business that her family has operated since 2006, La Villa Bakery on East Alondra Boulevard, to keep an eye on the protests.Arriving at the bakery, she walked over to the nearby intersection of Atlantic Avenue and East Alondra Boulevard, where she was exposed to pepper spray.“I’ve never seen this much chaos,” Mrs. Moran, 39, said as she touched her face that had been irritated by the spray. “My grandfather and uncle were bakers, and so is my father,” she added. “We are a Latino-owned bakery, and lots of our clients are Latinos. So we feel for them. This is not right.”By early evening, a large group of protesters had gathered in the shopping strip in front of her bakery. A rock bounced off one of the windows. She decided to close up early, lock the door and pray that her business would not be vandalized by the growing number of people who were throwing items at police, starting fires, and setting off what appeared to be fireworks.Mrs. Moran said she had empathy for undocumented immigrants and hoped the violent protests settled down.June 7, 2025, 10:46 p.m. ETPresident Trump with the California National Guard in 2020.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesPresident Trump took extraordinary action on Saturday by calling up 2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protests in California, making rare use of federal powers and bypassing the authority of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom.It is the first time since 1965 that a president has activated a state’s National Guard force without a request from that state’s governor, according to Elizabeth Goitein, senior director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, an independent law and policy organization. The last time was when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators in 1965, she said.Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, immediately rebuked the president’s action. “That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions,” Mr. Newsom said, adding that “this is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.”Governors almost always control the deployment of National Guard troops in their states. But the directive signed by Mr. Trump cites ”10 U.S.C. 12406,” referring to a specific provision within Title 10 of the U.S. Code on Armed Services. Part of that provision allows the federal deployment of National Guard forces if “there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”It also states that the president may call into federal service “members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws.”Mr. Trump’s directive said, “To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement on Saturday night that Mr. Trump was deploying the National Guard in response to “violent mobs” that she said had attacked federal law enforcement and immigration agents. The 2,000 troops would “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester,” she said.Although some demonstrations have been unruly, local authorities in Los Angeles County did not indicate during the day that they needed federal assistance.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a post on X late on Saturday that the Pentagon was “mobilizing the National Guard IMMEDIATELY.” But he did not say when or where the troops would assemble, or identify their units.Mr. Trump’s directive authorized the secretary of defense to “employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion.” In Mr. Hegseth’s post on X, he said that active duty Marines were “on high alert” at Camp Pendleton, about 100 miles south of Los Angeles, and could also be mobilized.Protests have occurred on Friday and Saturday in California to oppose federal immigration raids on workplaces. The latest is unfolding at a Home Depot in Paramount, Calif., about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.California Democrats have braced for months for the possibility that President Trump would seek to deploy U.S. troops on American soil in this way, particularly in Democratic-run jurisdictions. Privately, they have acknowledged that such a move, absent the state’s agreement, would have profound implications.Mr. Trump suggested deploying U.S. forces in the same manner during his first term to suppress outbreaks of violence during the nationwide protests over the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. He opted against doing so at the time, but he has repeatedly raised the idea of using troops to secure border states.In 2020, in the final days of Mr. Trump’s first presidential term, military helicopters were used to rout peaceful protesters demonstrating against police violence near the White House.“For the federal government to take over the California National Guard, without the request of the governor, to put down protests is truly chilling,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. “It is using the military domestically to stop dissent.”The National Guard was last federalized in 1992, Ms. Goitein said, when President George H.W. Bush sent troops to Los Angeles to control riots after police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. That deployment was requested by the California’s governor at the time, Pete Wilson.Mr. Trump and his aides have often lamented that not enough was done by Minnesota’s governor to quell protests that followed the death of Mr. Floyd in 2020.During a campaign rally in 2023, Trump made clear he was not going to hold back in a second term. “You’re supposed to not be involved in that, you just have to be asked by the governor or the mayor to come in — the next time, I’m not waiting,” Mr. Trump said.Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Carol Rosenberg contributed reporting.