PinnedUpdated June 11, 2025, 9:21 p.m. ETA video of federal agents apprehending a man at an intersection in a Los Angeles neighborhood on Wednesday inflamed already high tensions over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, as more demonstrations emerged across the country.Hundreds of people were marching through the streets in places like San Antonio, Raleigh, N.C., St. Louis and New York. In Indianapolis, demonstrators gathered outside of Gainbridge Fieldhouse as fans arrived for Game 3 of the N.B.A. Finals.Earlier in the day, Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles and leaders of more than 30 smaller cities in California urged for an end to the federal immigration sweeps that have disrupted many regions in the state.“When you raid Home Depots and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart, and when you run armored caravans through our streets, you’re not trying to keep anyone safe — you’re trying to cause fear and panic,” Ms. Bass said at a news conference, suggesting that the raids were a purposeful provocation by the White House.Her comments came just hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Senate hearing that troops could be sent to other cities “if there are riots in places where law enforcement officers are threatened.”At the White House, Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, opened her briefing by attacking Ms. Bass and the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, and insisting that “left wing riots” would not halt the ICE raids.Here’s what else to know:Arrest video: The police were initially investigating video of federal agents using their unmarked vehicles to pin a car in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles as an assault or hit and run, but Homeland Security said later that the footage showed “a targeted arrest of a violent rioter.” The clip spread online and incited angry reactions on social media. Read more ›L.A. curfew: Ms. Bass instituted a curfew late Tuesday and said it would go on “as long as needed," adding, “Anybody that’s involved in violence or looting or vandalism is not supporting the cause of immigrants.” About 200 people were arrested on charges of failure to disperse after the curfew took effect downtown, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement.A night out: On his way into the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Wednesday night to attend the opening night performance of “Les Misérables,” Mr. Trump defended his decision to bring the military to Los Angeles to quell the protests. “If I didn’t act quickly on that, Los Angeles would be burning to the ground right now,” he said.Newsom’s speech: In a nationally televised address, Mr. Newsom that the deployment of federal troops was a “brazen abuse of power” by Mr. Trump and a “perilous moment” for American democracy. Read the full transcript of his speech ›Texas protests: Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas plans to deploy National Guard troops across the state to maintain order, becoming the first U.S. governor to do so since the unrest began. The mayor of San Antonio, Ron Nirenberg, criticized the move as “geared toward theater and provocation.” Read more ›June 11, 2025, 9:31 p.m. ETSamuel Rocha IVReporting from San AntonioThe march in San Antonio has roughly doubled in size since the beginning, to several hundred, and has remained peaceful. Police officers are keeping an eye from afar.June 11, 2025, 9:24 p.m. ETMimi DwyerReporting from Los Angeles CountyTwo hours ahead of curfew, the rally in downtown Los Angeles is not showing signs of flagging. The mood is bright. Teens on skateboards and on bikes popping wheelies are out ahead of the crowd, as they have during many protests this week. Passersby are honking in support.June 11, 2025, 9:19 p.m. ETNational Guard troops and other law enforcement officers in Los Angeles on Tuesday.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York TimesLeaders from more than 30 cities across the Los Angeles area called on President Trump on Wednesday to stop conducting the immigration raids that have frightened their communities.Their collective plea, issued at a news conference at Los Angeles City Hall, came on the sixth day of demonstrations in Los Angeles protesting the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.Mayors from cities including Downey, Huntington Park and Culver City condemned the raids and Mr. Trump’s deployment of 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines as fear-based tactics intended to stoke unrest in their immigrant communities. Los Angeles is the largest of 88 cities in a county of about 10 million people, nearly half of whom are of Hispanic origin, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.Maria Davila, the mayor of South Gate, southeast of Los Angeles, was born in Mexico and moved to the United States as a child. On Wednesday she swallowed her emotion as she urged ICE to stop the raids that portray immigrants, like herself, as criminals.“It is hard for us as elected officials to hear that a person who is representing us up in the federal level is capable of doing such a horrendous — I mean, just unbelievable — things to our constituents and our people,” Mayor Davila said.Other officials charged that the president’s campaign to deport record numbers of undocumented immigrants had affected their local economies and left longtime residents too terrified to leave home, even for work or their children’s high school graduations.“Physically, ICE has not been in the city of Montebello,” its mayor, Salvador Melendez, said, referring to agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “But psychologically, they’re there. Our community is in fear. Our community is afraid to go out.”Several other mayors standing behind him nodded in agreement.Although the Trump administration has framed its campaign as a crackdown on criminals, local leaders say the actions are actually sweeping up people who have lived in their communities, in some cases for decades, and who are valued and law-abiding.Several of them pointed out that they were the descendants of the kinds of people being targeted by the administration. They said the raids, which have so far largely focused on Latino workers, were deeply personal.Mario Trujillo, a councilman in Downey, a heavily Hispanic city in southeast Los Angeles County, said that just hours earlier on Wednesday ICE agents detained four people at a fitness center, two at a Home Depot and an older man dropping off his granddaughter at school.“We do not believe the federal government when they say they are looking for criminals with warrants or with convictions,” Councilman Trujillo said. “They have classified someone being in the United States illegally as a criminal, and that’s why that’s their narrative. But to us, these are hardworking undocumented workers that are part of our economy, that are part of our city. These are our neighbors.”Councilman Trujillo said that over the weekend ICE agents in Downey converged on a carwash, a workplace often targeted because the industry is dominated by immigrant workers. At least five carwashes across Los Angeles and Orange Counties have been raided since Sunday, according to the CLEAN Carwash Worker Center, a nonprofit labor rights organization.The mayor of Culver City, Dan O’Brien, spoke on Wednesday at a news conference in front of one of those carwashes, Culver City Express Hand Carwash and Detail, where at least one employee was detained by ICE agents on Sunday.“We have a business behind us that is closed right now because their employees are in fear,” Mayor O’Brien said. “We have people who are staying in their homes, locked for fear of walking in the streets in the communities that they once felt was their home. That’s not right.”Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, Sonia A. Rao and Taylor Robinson contributed reporting.June 11, 2025, 9:08 p.m. ETWith accounts of immigration enforcement spreading on Tuesday in California’s Central Coast and San Joaquin Valley, crucial agricultural regions, some farmworkers hid in the fields between rows of crops, according to Hazel Davalos, a community activist. Many could not leave their ranches and others worried about being detained on their commute home, she added.Ms. Davalos, the executive director of Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, said 40 workers were detained Tuesday in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.A video published Tuesday night by ABC shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents running after a worker on a farm early that morning in Oxnard, in Ventura County.Raids were also conducted at farms in Kern and Tulare counties, according to Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers union.A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson would not confirm that any raids took place but said in a statement that work-site immigration enforcement “protects workers from exploitation and trafficking.”A crowd formed at the back gate of Ambiance Apparel in Los Angeles on Friday after federal immigration agents gathered at the company.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York TimesThe Trump administration is ramping up its immigration crackdown, with a focus on workplaces with undocumented laborers, such as farms, restaurants and construction sites. Estimates show more than eight million undocumented immigrants work in the United States.Last Friday, federal immigration agents swept through the garment district of Los Angeles, setting off protests that have rattled sections of downtown L.A. and have spread to a number of cities across the country.For farmworkers — about 42 percent of whom are undocumented, according to the Agriculture Department — the escalation in arrests has created widespread fear.“Children are terrified,” Ms. Romero said. “They don’t want to go to school because they don’t know if their parents will be home when they come back.”Local leaders have rebuked the escalation, which could bring hardship to one of California’s agricultural corridors. The Central Valley — which grows almonds, grapes, walnuts and cherries, among other crops — produces a quarter of the nation’s food, worth an estimated $17 billion a year, according to federal data.“These actions are completely unjustified and harmful,” said Mayor Luis McArthur of Oxnard. “They create chaos in our city without contributing much to public safety. Furthermore these actions undermine the very principles of due process.”The raids this week represent the first organized immigration enforcement from the new Trump administration to hit California’s agricultural region, which covers about 40 percent of the state, Ms. Romero said. A handful of federal operations have been conducted in other rural communities in recent weeks. Last month, federal agents pulled over a bus in Albion, N.Y., and detained 14 immigrants who worked at a nearby farm. In April, three children and their mother were detained at an upstate New York dairy.Rural migrants are particularly vulnerable to immigration enforcement because they stand out in towns that are often racially homogenous, said Will Lambek of Migrant Justice, an advocacy organization for farmworkers in Vermont, where eight dairy workers were detained in April.In California, Ms. Davalos said the agents could have made more arrests had the community been less prepared. Once a volunteer spotted officers in the area, an alert was sent through a network of support.Federal agents were denied entry to at least nine farms in the Central Coast, Ms. Davalos said. Some growers parked their vehicles in front of their gates. Employees also obscured their cars.“We demonstrated the power of brave, nonviolent resistance to ICE’s tactics of terror,” Ms. Davalos said, lamenting what she described as politically driven attempts to reach a deportation quota. “At the end of the day, they’re seizing our family, friends, neighbors and co-workers.”If federal immigration enforcement activities continue, food production will become increasingly difficult, and food prices could rise, warned Bryan Little, senior director of policy advocacy at the California Farm Bureau.Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, both California Democrats, called the targeted raids “unjustified and unconscionable” in a joint statement Wednesday.“These disruptive raids are harming American businesses and separating families, and will only push food prices higher,” they said.June 11, 2025, 8:52 p.m. ETMimi DwyerReporting from Los Angeles CountyAt an energetic rally at Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles, anger at Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom is crystallizing among speakers and the crowd. They are angry that although Bass and Newsom voice support for immigrants, Bass has implemented a curfew in response to the protest, and that Newsom has not done more to remove the National Guard from the state. Beyond the lawsuit the state has filed against the Trump administration over the deployment, it was unclear whether Newsom had more options.Credit...Ronaldo Schemidt/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJune 11, 2025, 8:37 p.m. ETJenna FisherReporting from St. LouisThe peaceful protest in St. Louis is over. The march, which involved more than 200 people who took over the streets downtown with signs and flags, ended by 6 p.m. by design, because organizers sought to minimize interaction with the police.June 11, 2025, 8:24 p.m. ETIn Lower Manhattan, at least five people were taken into police custody shortly before 8 p.m. and driven away in a police van after officers cleared about 200 protesters from the intersection of Broadway and Duane Street. The police were allowing protesters to gather on sidewalks but threatened them with arrest if they ventured onto the roadway.Credit...Vincent Alban/The New York TimesJune 11, 2025, 8:20 p.m. ETMore than 200 people have amassed outside City Hall in San Antonio chanting, “People united will never be divided!” and holding signs that read, “No human is illegal,” and “I’m speaking for those who can’t.”VideoCreditCredit...Edgar Sandoval/The New York TimesJune 11, 2025, 8:10 p.m. ETDemonstrators protesting against the Trump administration’s immigration policies gathered in Manhattan on Wednesday.Credit...Yuki Iwamura/Associated PressProtests that began in Los Angeles six nights ago percolated across the country on Wednesday evening as hundreds marched under the shadow of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, hundreds more gathered in Raleigh, N.C., and a large crowd marched in San Antonio.Several hundred demonstrators gathered outside Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis to denounce Immigration and Customs Enforcement as fans entered the arena for Game Three of the N.B.A. finals.Demonstrations on Wednesday evening began peacefully, as local police officers looked on — far from President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and Marines in California. In New York, though, at least five people were taken into custody after police cleared about 200 protesters from an intersection in downtown Manhattan.A scuffle did break out at an ICE office in Spokane, Wash., where protesters shouted “shame” at federal agents.But from North Carolina to California, demonstrations were largely controlled.Jim Luepke, a 70-year-old in St. Louis, held a sign that read, “Regain our democracy,” and said he was not surprised by the showing in a Democratic city on the edge of the deep red state of Missouri.“I think it’s important for Americans to stand up for their country,” he said. “St Louis has a voice, and when they are riled up, they come out.”Protests large and small were expected later Wednesday from places including Whitefish, Mont., and Seattle, in addition to Los Angeles.In Omaha, Neb., a handful of protesters held up signs during rush hour on one of the city’s busiest intersections, as a steady stream of cars honked and hooted approval. A federal raid on Tuesday at a meat processing plant has set Omaha on edge.Paused for the traffic light, a young men in a Chevy Durango rolled down his window to thank the demonstrators.“You guys are doing great,” he said. “You guys are making a change”Moments later, another motorist yelled, “Go home! Get a job!”Lauren Holmes, 35, a preschool teacher, called back, “We are home! We do have jobs!”Pedro Ruiz, 53, a U.S. Army veteran, came out in San Antonio to protest Wednesday afternoon outside City Hall after he saw images of migrants and their children being arrested with zip ties in the city.“It made me cry,” he said. “I saw people in L.A. protesting, and that motivated me to do the same. People are tired.”June 11, 2025, 7:21 p.m. ETThe protesters in Raleigh say their demonstration is also targeted at the Republican lawmakers just a few blocks over who have recently passed a bill that would require state law enforcement agencies to determine if a person is a U.S. citizen, and to contact ICE if they do not have legal status. Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat, has not yet said whether he’ll veto.June 11, 2025, 7:20 p.m. ETAs the protesters begin to march in Raleigh, N.C., the city’s police officers are blocking oncoming traffic to make way for the demonstration. The marchers are filling an entire block as they deride ICE with chants. The scene remains peaceful: Little girls wearing traditional Mexican dresses are walking with their parents, and boys are donning soccer jerseys from El Salvador. Some families are waving U.S. and Venezuelan flags in unison.June 11, 2025, 7:06 p.m. ETJenna FisherReporting from St. LouisSome 200 to 300 people are marching downtown through the streets of St. Louis in the shadow of the Arch, holding U.S. flags — some are upside down and some right side up. Police have blocked off the streets as protestors chant, “Hey, hey ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go.”June 11, 2025, 6:51 p.m. ETVideoThe Department of Homeland Security said that the driver had punched a Customs and Border Protection officer.CreditCredit...Rudy’s BargainFederal agents used their unmarked vehicles to pin a car on Wednesday in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles and drew their weapons to make an arrest, prompting angry reactions as video showing the encounter spread quickly on social media.The Los Angeles Police Department initially said officers were investigating the incident near downtown as a possible assault or hit and run. But several hours later, the Department of Homeland Security said on social media that the episode was “no hit and run.”“This was a targeted arrest of a violent rioter” who had punched a Customs and Border Protection officer and tried to flee from agents, the department posted on X. It named the person who had been arrested but did not provide charging documents or other evidence.Video of the crash shows two unmarked vehicles — a truck and an S.U.V. — colliding with a white sedan at an intersection. Smoke can be seen behind the sedan as agents immediately exit their vehicles with weapons drawn. The sedan’s driver steps out with his hands raised.In another video, apparently recorded moments later, a woman holding a child beside the sedan can be seen asking an agent for the agent’s name and badge number. The agent closes the passenger door of the S.U.V., which can be seen leaving the intersection.A press officer for the department did not immediately respond to a request for more details.On social media, the agency said: “You will not stop us or slow us down. ICE and our federal law enforcement partners will continue to enforce the law. And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”June 11, 2025, 6:38 p.m. ETHundreds of protesters are gathered at a green space in downtown Raleigh, N.C., at what has been a peaceful demonstration. Many have Mexican flags draped around their shoulders. There are chants of “immigrants are welcomed here.” One person’s sign was particularly popular on this hot spring day: “I prefer my ICE crushed.”Credit...Eduardo Medina/The New York TimesJune 11, 2025, 6:29 p.m. ETNathan Hochman, the Los Angeles County district attorney, pushed back on Wednesday against President Trump’s characterization of Los Angeles as a city in chaos. The vast majority of protesters had not broken the law, nor had “99.9 percent of Los Angeles residents,” he said at a news conference, adding, “Civil unrest has been on a downward trend over the last several days.”June 11, 2025, 6:16 p.m. ETAt a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the administration’s use of troops in Los Angeles.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York TimesThousands of National Guard troops have been deployed to protests over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles, with armed troops accompanying federal immigration enforcement officers on raids.But the full extent to which the National Guard troops’ authority is being used — and whether it will be expanded to other cities — is unclear.The service members have been given the task of protecting federal property, personnel and actions — including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. But a representative for the U.S. Northern Command declined to say how many National Guard troops had been deployed in the city, or where, citing security concerns.Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, shared a photo on social media in which military personnel carrying rifles appeared to be standing alongside ICE officials arresting people. “This We’ll Defend,” he wrote.A battalion of 700 Marines has also been called to Los Angeles. Under Department of Defense policy, Marines can detain, but not arrest, people, and then they must hand them over to local officials.On Thursday, a federal judge is scheduled to consider California’s request to limit the use of military personnel to protecting federal property, something the Justice Department has pushed back against.During a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Mr. Hegseth told lawmakers that the legal authorities used to deploy those troops to Los Angeles could be employed “if there are riots in places where law enforcement officers are threatened.”At least one other state has announced plans to use National Guard troops: Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott was the first governor to call in the troops since the unrest began, and he said during a news conference on Wednesday that he wanted “to make sure that what has happened in California does not happen in Texas. Texas is a law-and-order state.”Mr. Abbott said that the Texas National Guard would work with the state police in “strategic locations” where they can provide “robust response where needed.” But he declined to say how many troops would be deployed or how they would be used, adding only that anyone who damaged property or injured another person would be arrested.A spokesman for Mr. Abbott said that the troops would be “on standby in areas where mass demonstrations are planned, in case they are needed.”June 11, 2025, 6:02 p.m. ETProtesters at a carwash in Culver City, Calif., on Wednesday. At least five carwashes across Los Angeles County and Orange County have been raided since Sunday.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York TimesJaslyn Hernandez graduated from high school on Wednesday. Her pink hair was styled. Her gown was pressed. But her father was nowhere to be found.Ms. Hernandez has not seen him since Sunday, when he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the carwash where he worked. She and her family have spent three days and nights searching for him without success.“He isn’t able to watch me walk the stage. The moment that he worked so hard for is gone because of Trump’s abuse of power,” she said, her voice cracking as she spoke to a crowd gathered for a news conference in front of the Culver City Express Hand Carwash and Detail where he worked.“I just wish — I just want my dad to come home safe,” she said. “And I wish that he was able to see his little girl graduate.”Jaslyn Hernandez, right, and Kimberly Hernandez, her older sister, at a news conference on Wednesday. They said they were afraid to walk outside alone after their father was detained by agents on Sunday.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York TimesCarwashes are among the workplaces being targeted in the immigration raids around the Los Angeles area. The industry is heavily dominated by immigrant workers, and the nature of the facilities — typically open, outdoor areas — leave workers particularly vulnerable, said Flor Melendrez, the executive director of the CLEAN Carwash Worker Center, a nonprofit labor rights organization.At least five carwashes across Los Angeles County and Orange County have been raided since Sunday, the group said, and at least 25 workers in the industry had been detained by agents, as well as at least one customer. Only four of those individuals have been located.Videos posted online capture many of these raids. In one, a boy screams as agents take his father away. In anticipation of further raids, Ms. Melendrez said CLEAN was scrambling to keep carwash managers informed of their rights, including how they might try to limit agents’ abilities to reach their workers.Without an employer’s permission, immigration agents can enter private areas of a business only with a judicial warrant. But agents don’t need permission to enter publicly accessible areas of a business — places like lobbies and parking lots, according to the National Immigration Law Center.Carwash workers are being targeted because they’re easier for agents to directly approach, Ms. Melendrez said.Agents in several of the raids have often refused to identify themselves or answer questions, she said. “They’re showing up in multiple cars and in unmarked vehicles, so you don’t know whether that’s a customer or not,” she said, adding, “When they’re getting out with gear and guns, it’s very intimidating for anyone.”Noemi Ciau, whose husband was taken by immigration agents at the Westchester Hand Wash near the Los Angeles airport, said she was shopping for her 14-year-old’s middle school graduation outfit when she scrolled on social media and saw footage of her husband’s carwash being raided.Ms. Ciau rushed there and found the property virtually empty. The owner said he tried to speak with the agents, but they had ignored him and took Ms. Ciau’s husband.She called ICE detention centers, police departments, even Representative Maxine Waters’s office — where staffers told her that ICE officials would not cooperate with them to locate her husband.“If they can’t do anything — I’m just a regular citizen here, what hope does that give me?” she said in an interview.ICE officials and officials for Ms. Waters did not immediately respond to requests for comment.June 11, 2025, 5:57 p.m. ETThe police have arrested more than 380 people in Los Angeles since demonstrations began last week, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Nathan Hochman, the Los Angeles county district attorney, said at a news conference that more arrests are likely to come as investigators review videos on social media.June 11, 2025, 5:41 p.m. ETJim McDonnell, the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said at a news conference on Wednesday that the department would investigate reports of officers firing crowd-control munitions from close range. He said the department would review footage from body worn cameras to “put together as best we can what the circumstances were.”Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York TimesJune 11, 2025, 5:38 p.m. ETLuis Ferré SadurníThe streets of Lower Manhattan were quiet a day after the police arrested 86 people during an evening protest. A handful of protestors idled on Foley Square, not far from dozens of officers in riot gear chatting among themselves.June 11, 2025, 5:31 p.m. ETThe Denver police said today that 18 people had been arrested during protests Tuesday night, on charges that included throwing rocks at the police, obstructing roadways, graffiti and disobeying lawful orders. Two people were arrested on charges of assaulting police officers.Credit...Michael Ciaglo/Getty ImagesJune 11, 2025, 5:18 p.m. ETJenna FisherReporting from St. LouisAbout 150 protesters lined an overpass this afternoon near the St. Louis Zoo, holding signs with messages like “we are ALL immigrants” as drivers below leaned on their horns in support. “It’s our obligation to stand up against what’s going on,” said Paige Dahle, 29. “It could be anyone. If I don’t get out there today, who is going to come out for me tomorrow?”June 11, 2025, 5:04 p.m. ETChicago’s progressive mayor, Brandon Johnson, invoked the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., calling for any protests to remain nonviolent. But, he added, “I am counting on all of Chicago to resist in this moment, because whatever particular vulnerable group is targeted today, another group will be next.”June 11, 2025, 5:01 p.m. ETCharlie SavageCharlie Savage writes about national security and legal policy.President Trump on Tuesday in the Oval Office.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York TimesThe Justice Department on Wednesday argued that there was no legal basis to block federal troops from accompanying immigration agents on raids in Los Angeles, portraying the state of California’s request for such a judicial order as baseless and an attempt to restrict President Trump’s power.In a 29-page brief, the department maintained that neither the state government nor federal courts had a right to second-guess Mr. Trump’s judgment that federal military reinforcements were necessary to protect federal immigration agents from protesters in the city.“That is precisely the type of sensitive judgment that is committed to the president’s discretion by law, and to which courts owe the highest deference,” the Justice Department wrote. “The statute empowers the president to determine what forces ‘he considers necessary’ to ‘suppress’ a ‘rebellion’ or to ‘execute’ federal ‘laws’ — not the governor, and not a federal court.”The filing came ahead of a hearing scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Federal District Court in San Francisco. Judge Charles S. Breyer, a 1997 Clinton appointee, is overseeing the legal challenge.The state of California and its governor, Gavin Newsom, filed a lawsuit on Monday night challenging the legality of Mr. Trump’s move, which included taking control of up to 4,000 California National Guard troops and sending in 700 Marines. On Tuesday, the Democratic-controlled state requested a temporary restraining order that would limit both types of troops under federal control to guarding federal buildings, with no other law enforcement activity.The state cited, in part, a 19th-century law, the Posse Comitatus Act, that generally makes it illegal to use federal troops for law enforcement on domestic soil unless the president invokes the little-used Insurrection Act. But in its brief, the Justice Department argued that the state was mischaracterizing Mr. Trump’s order, which included instructions to use the forces to protect federal agents enforcing immigration law.“Neither the National Guard nor the Marines are engaged in law enforcement,” the department argued. “Rather, they are protecting law enforcement, consistent with longstanding practice and the inherent protective power to provide for the safety of federal property and personnel."Among other things, it cited Office of Legal Counsel memos from the Vietnam War era, written by the future chief justice of the United States, William Rehnquist, that said presidents had inherent power to use the military to protect federal functions in Washington and the Pentagon from antiwar protesters.The Trump administration devoted a large section of its brief to recounting a version of the events that led to Mr. Trump’s order after two days of protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids at workplaces in Los Angeles. It also contained vituperative language, such as characterizing Mr. Newsom’s lawsuit as “a crass political stunt endangering American lives.”And in a sign of the haste with which the Justice Department drafted the filing, a page labeled “TABLE OF CONTENTS” is otherwise empty, while one labeled “TABLE OF AUTHORITIES” — where lawyers are supposed to list the court precedents cited in their brief — there is only the word “[INSERT]” highlighted in yellow.The state has also argued that orders by Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, taking federal control of units of the California National Guard were illegal because Mr. Hegseth sent them directly to a general in charge of the guard and bypassed Mr. Newsom. The statute Mr. Trump invoked to call up the troops to federal service says all such orders should go through a state’s governor.The federal brief portrayed that argument by the state as meritless, saying that the Trump administration told Mr. Newsom what it intended to do. It also said that Mr. Hegseth’s memo to the general bore the words “THROUGH: THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA” even if it did not go to Mr. Newsom. It rejected the idea that Mr. Newsom himself had to convey the requested order, effectively giving him veto power over such a call-up.June 11, 2025, 4:58 p.m. ETLaw enforcement officers arrested protesters in Los Angeles on Tuesday.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York TimesMore than 900 protesters in at least 10 cities have been arrested since Friday in demonstrations against federal immigration raids. Though the encounters have turned tense at times, leaving some protesters and law enforcement officers with injuries, most of the protests have not turned violent and been confined to only small sections of cities.Here’s how many people have been arrested, cited and released nationwide, according to statements from law enforcement officials.More than 380 people have been arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department since the protests began on Friday, with a the largest share of the arrests happening Tuesday. Over 300 of those arrested faced charges for failure to disperse, though a few are facing more serious charges, including for assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder with a Molotov cocktail. Fourteen protesters faced charges for looting. As of Wednesday, it was not immediately clear how many of the arrested protesters had been released.At protests since Friday, the California Highway Patrol also arrested roughly 100 people and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrested at least seven people, according to representatives for those departments.Federal authorities arrested an additional nine people protesting workplace raids in Southern California, according to the Justice Department. Among them was David Huerta, a union leader. Six protesters, including Mr. Huerta, were released.In San Francisco, 154 people were arrested on Sunday. All but one were cited and released, Paul Yep, the city’s acting chief of police, said at a news conference. Six of those arrested were juveniles, Mr. Yep said. About 90 more people were arrested on Monday night, according to the San Francisco Police Department.In Austin, Texas, 13 people were arrested on Monday during a protest that began outside the State Capitol. They faced charges including criminal mischief, resisting arrest, harassment and reckless driving.In New York City, 86 people were arrested in protests against federal immigration raids on Tuesday night, according to an internal police report. On Monday, three people were arrested and four were issued summonses after blocking traffic outside a federal building in Lower Manhattan. The police said 24 people were issued summonses for a protest at Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan.In Chicago, 17 people were arrested in demonstrations on Tuesday night on charges including aggravated battery, criminal damage to government property, reckless conduct and resisting a police officer.In Philadelphia, 15 people were arrested during protests on Tuesday, according to the city’s Police Department.In Denver, the police said 18 people were arrested during demonstrations Tuesday night on charges including assaulting police officers, obstructing roadways and disobeying lawful orders.In Dallas, one person was arrested during a protest on Monday after hitting a police car, according to the Dallas Police Department.In Seattle, two people were given citations by federal authorities Tuesday during a protest outside a federal building downtown, according to the Justice Department.In Brookhaven, Ga., a city outside Atlanta, six people were arrested at a protest that grew violet when several demonstrators threw fireworks and rocks at officers, according to the police there.Protesters also gathered in cities like Boston and Omaha over the last few days, but it was not immediately clear if any arrests had been made in connection to those demonstrations.Reporting was contributed by Sonia Rao, Lina Fisher and Chris Hippensteel. Alain Delaquérière contributed research.June 11, 2025, 4:40 p.m. ETAshley AhnGeorgia’s attorney general, Chris Carr, issued a stark warning on Wednesday, a day after demonstrators clashed with local law enforcement in Atlanta. “All Americans have the right to peacefully protest,” he said in a statement. “No American has the right to destroy property, loot businesses or attack law enforcement officers.”Credit...Mike Stewart/Associated PressJune 11, 2025, 3:32 p.m. ETLina FisherReporting from Austin, TexasTwo Democratic congressmen representing Texas, Joaquin Castro and Greg Casar, released a statement on Wednesday denouncing Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to deploy the National Guard in San Antonio and Austin, where protests have also broken out. They said Abbott was “trying to intimidate our community for rallying against President Trump’s authoritarian policies.”If the governor were “serious about working with our local authorities, he would have alerted them before making this inflammatory decision,” the congressmen said. “By needlessly deploying the National Guard, Gov. Abbott is escalating tensions rather than promoting safety and calm.”June 11, 2025, 3:29 p.m. ETGov. Greg Abbott of Texas was asked at a news conference in Austin on Wednesday about his plans to use National Guard troops during protests in the state. He responded that he wanted “to make sure that what has happened in California does not happen in Texas,” saying that “Texas is a law and order state.”He said that the Texas National Guard would partner with state police in “strategic locations” where they could provide “robust response where needed.” He declined to say how many troops would be deployed or how they would be used, but he said that anyone who damaged property or injured another person would be arrested.June 11, 2025, 3:26 p.m. ETTaylor RobinsonMayor Karen Bass has said throughout the news conference in Los Angeles that “there’s no way of knowing” when the federal immigration raids will end. A reporter asked if she believed raids would become a new reality of the Trump administration. “I am going to continue to advocate on a federal level,” she said, adding that “we are stuck in this no-man’s-land of not having any idea when the policy will end.”Videotranscriptbars0:00/0:41-0:00transcriptI don’t have any idea how much is being spent in overtime now. Again, unnecessary — didn’t need to happen in the first place. I am concerned about the budget impacts. You know we had almost a $1 billion deficit here, and so I’m concerned about that. But there is no way of knowing. And there’s also no way of knowing when it’s going to end. You know that in a year the World Cup is going to be here — eight games. All of our cities are going to be involved in the World Cup. I know the president is excited about the World Cup and wants to be supportive of the World Cup. The best way to support the World Cup — end the raids, End the raids, and frankly, share some of that financial support that you’re giving unnecessarily to the military.CreditCredit...ABC7 Los Angeles, via Associated PressJune 11, 2025, 3:17 p.m. ETSonia A. RaoMayor Bass said that an emergency declaration she signed on Tuesday did not have a time limit, and the overnight curfew it stipulated would go on as long as needed. “It’s really kind of dependent on what the response is from the federal side,” she said. “If there are raids that continue, if there are soldiers marching up and down our street, I would imagine that the curfew will continue.”She said another indicator for stopping the curfew would be a night with no arrests.June 11, 2025, 2:55 p.m. ETMayor Daniel Lurie walking through the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco, with William Scott, then the chief of the San Francisco Police Department, on the morning of his inauguration in January.Credit...Loren Elliott for The New York TimesFor Mayor Daniel Lurie of San Francisco, there are two words that he dares not mention: Donald Trump.This week, his refusal held true even after the president sent National Guard troops into Los Angeles and called up the Marines, leaving many San Franciscans to wonder if their liberal California city could be next.Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles, Representative Nancy Pelosi and Gov. Gavin Newsom have each blamed Mr. Trump for causing chaos. Mr. Newsom, in a nationally televised address on Tuesday night, told Americans that Mr. Trump was putting democracy at risk and that they should rise up to stop him.But Mr. Lurie has staunchly avoided discussing Mr. Trump’s actions, even when asked on multiple occasions to respond to the various ways that the president’s policies have affected his city. This week, Mr. Lurie instead focused on praising the San Francisco Police Department for the way it handled two protests in the city that were intended to show solidarity with Los Angeles.Mr. Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, won voter support in November on a promise to improve the daily lives of San Franciscans and avoid ideological disputes. The moderate Democrat, five months into his first-ever elected position, would still rather talk about public safety and trash cleanups.One protest on Sunday night turned violent when demonstrators clashed with police officers in riot gear, leading to 154 arrests. Another protest on Monday night was far calmer, but a splinter group vandalized buildings and sprayed graffiti, and the police arrested 92 people. Through Monday, more people were arrested in protests in San Francisco than those in Los Angeles, though Los Angeles has since had more.Videotranscriptbars0:00/0:08-0:00transcriptHundreds of protesters marched through the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District on Monday.[chanting] Get out of the Bay! [chanting] ICE, get out the Bay! [chanting] Get out of the Bay!Hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District on Monday.CreditCredit...Kellen Browning/The New York TimesSeveral members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, akin to a City Council, have taken to the streets with demonstrators or given fiery speeches from the steps of City Hall, a show of solidarity with other residents against Mr. Trump’s deportations and use of military force in California.Mr. Lurie, however, spent the protest nights Sunday and Monday huddled with the police chief, fire chief and officials with the Department of Emergency Management in an emergency command center a few blocks from City Hall.He then called news conferences on Monday and Tuesday to praise his police department, announce city crews were cleaning graffiti from businesses free of charge and reiterate that anyone caught vandalizing property would be arrested.Mr. Lurie declined to discuss whether he thought the National Guard might come to San Francisco next. He would not say whether he considered Mr. Trump an authoritarian. He would not offer his opinion of the president saying that Mr. Newsom, for whom the mayor’s wife has worked as an aide for years, should be arrested.He answered almost every question with a version of the same answer.“My message is, we are keeping San Franciscans safe,” Mr. Lurie said. “We have this under control.”He spent much of Tuesday’s news conference discussing a totally unrelated topic: proposed changes to how long recreational vehicles can be parked on city streets.Mr. Lurie’s colleagues expressed shock that five months into a presidential term that has targeted California in extraordinary ways, the mayor still won’t discuss Mr. Trump.“It is like he who shall not be named,” Supervisor Myrna Melgar said. Her family arrived in California from El Salvador when she was 12 and lived without legal papers until her father obtained citizenship through his work.Mr. Lurie’s effort to revitalize San Francisco after the pandemic relies on the work of undocumented immigrants in hotels, restaurants and construction sites, said Ms. Melgar, who added that the mayor needed to speak out forcefully on their behalf and against the president.“I have been disappointed that he has been so quiet,” she said. “We need the kind of leader who steps up to the moment. This is San Francisco, the place that welcomes people from all over, the open, tolerant city.”Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission District, a heavily Latino neighborhood, said she thought the mayor should condemn the actions of the president and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.She said ICE agents picked up 15 people at a San Francisco immigration office building for check-in appointments last week, one of them a 3-year-old. Agents picked up more people from the immigration courthouse on Tuesday. ICE did not respond to requests for information.“I don’t get it,” she said. “Most San Franciscans despise Trump.”At news conferences this week, Mr. Lurie acknowledged the “fear and anxiety” in the community and said the city’s sanctuary policies of not cooperating with federal immigration officials would continue. On Tuesday, he reiterated that on X after the ICE detentions.But allies of Mr. Lurie said that they understood his strategy. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, the president of the board, said that San Franciscans are not interested in a war of words between their mayor and the president.“They want him to do everything he can to protect San Francisco’s vulnerable communities,” Mr. Mandelman said.Nancy Tung, chairwoman of the San Francisco Democratic Party, suggested that ignoring Mr. Trump may even have kept the president’s focus away from San Francisco.“Maybe his reluctance to utter the president’s name or denounce him has actually kept the militaristic type of ICE raids out of San Francisco,” she said.In an interview, Mr. Lurie said that he worked for the residents of San Francisco and understood that some of them were fearful now.Asked if it was true that he would not say the word Trump, Mr. Lurie gave a tight-lipped smile. He said nothing.