PinnedMayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles and leaders of more than 30 smaller cities in California called on Wednesday for an end to the federal immigration sweeps that have disrupted cities across the region.Ms. Bass and the other mayors — of Montebello, Downey and other municipalities — spoke at a news conference after five days of protests sparked by immigration raids and President Trump’s deployment of 4,700 National Guard troops and Marines to the Los Angeles area.“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, suggesting that the raids were a purposeful provocation by the White House. “I posit that maybe we are part of a national experiment to determine how far the federal government can go in reaching in and taking over power from a governor, power from a local jurisdiction,” she added.Ms. Bass’s 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.”In Los Angeles, 700 Marines were receiving training on how to handle civil disturbances and not yet assisting the National Guard troops or federal immigration agents. Under Department of Defense policy, they can detain, but not arrest, people, and then they must hand them over to local officials as soon as possible.Protests have swept across the Los Angeles area since federal deportation raids there on Friday prompted clashes. As standoffs intensified in Los Angeles, similar demonstrations have cropped up in other cities, and more were expected on Wednesday, including in Raleigh, N.C.; Eugene, Ore., and St. Louis.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: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, according to a statement by the Los Angeles Police Department.Newsom’s speech: The governor made a nationally televised address arguing 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 ›Court hearing: The Trump administration filed its response on Wednesday to California’s request for a temporary restraining order that would limit the National Guard and Marines deployed in Los Angeles to guarding federal buildings. The Justice Department argued that the state’s legal objections — including that the guard call-up order did not go through Mr. Newsom — are meritless and there is no basis for such an order. A federal judge in California has set a hearing for Thursday. Read more ›June 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 will graduate from high school on Wednesday. Her pink hair is styled. Her gown is pressed. But her father is 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, with investigators reviewing videos on social media to identify and prosecute people who appeared to engage in illegal activity.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. The department would review footage from body worn cameras to “put together as best we can what the circumstances were,” McDonnell said.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York TimesJune 11, 2025, 5:38 p.m. ETLuis Ferré SadurníThe streets of Lower Manhattan were quiet on Wednesday, 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. The Police Department has 192 police officers on standby, ready to join the other hundreds of officers assigned to cover any protests, according to a law enforcement official.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 near the St. Louis Zoo, holding signs with messages like “we are ALL immigrants” as drivers below leaned on their horns in support. Paige Dahle, 29, said she did not have any personal connections to the raids but wanted to show solidarity.“It’s our obligation to stand up against what’s going on,” Dahle said. “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, did not so much seek to tamp down immigration protests in his city on Wednesday as focus on the importance of peaceful dissent. Speaking at a City Hall news conference, he said: “This is a necessary fight for all of us to be able to push back. Whether we use the courts or whether we continue to protest or raise our voices, dissent matters in this moment.”He invoked the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, calling for any protests to remain nonviolent and stressing that Chicagoans still needed to get to work each day, a reference to protests on Tuesday that shut down major downtown thoroughfares. 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 SavageNational security and legal policy reporterPresident 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 700 protesters in at least seven 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 majority 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 throughout the weekend and on Monday, the California Highway Patrol also arrested 19 people and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrested 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, at least 12 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.Protesters also gathered in cities like Boston and Atlanta over the last few days, but it was not immediately clear if any arrests had been made in connection to those demonstrations.Sonia Rao, Lina Fisher and Chris Hippensteel contributed reporting. 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.”“We are not California or New York,” he added. “We are Georgia. We don’t make excuses for criminals here. We prosecute them.”Carr said that protesters who “engage in violence to change public policy” could be charged with domestic terrorism. That was a reference a change in 2017 to Georgia’s law on demostic terrorism the term’s definition to include attempts to seriously harm or kill people or destroy “critical infrastructure” in order to force a policy change. Other states have acted similarly, leading critics to warn of the danger that activism could be framed as terrorism.Credit...Mike Stewart/Associated PressJune 11, 2025, 3:32 p.m. ETLina FisherReporting from AustinTwo 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.”June 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, 3:15 p.m. ETTaylor Robinson and Sonia A. RaoMayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles repeated her condemnation of those who have been rioting in response to the raids. “Anybody that’s involved in violence or looting or vandalism is not supporting the cause of immigrants,” she said at a City Hall news conference, because their actions could “trigger an even greater reaction from the administration.”She also said that local law enforcement, not National Guards forces, had carried out the arrest of those who engaged in violence or violated an overnight curfew. “They weren’t needed for that, they’re not needed now,” she said.June 11, 2025, 3:05 p.m. ETLos Angeles is the largest of 88 cities in a county of about 10 million people, nearly half of whom are of Hispanic origin. To the mayors speaking at a news conference with Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles, the recent immigration raids, which have so far largely targeted Latinos, are deeply personal.The speakers include even the mayor of the affluent beach community of Santa Monica, where Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who has championed the raids, went to high school. Immigrant laborers there are so frightened, she said, that they aren’t coming to work.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York TimesJune 11, 2025, 3:03 p.m. ETTaylor Robinson“Physically, ICE has not been in the city of Montebello,” said Sal Melendez, that city’s mayor, told a news conference in Los Angeles. “But psychologically, they’re there. Our community is in fear. Our community is afraid to go out.” Several mayors standing behind him nodded their agreement.June 11, 2025, 2:58 p.m. ETTaylor RobinsonAs she took the podium at a news conference in Los Angeles, Mayor Maria Davila of the nearby city of South Gate choked up. “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.” Davila added that she herself was an immigrant.June 11, 2025, 2:58 p.m. ETTaylor Robinson and Sonia A. RaoAt a news conference in Los Angeles with Mayor Karen Bass, one of the mayors of neighboring cities who joined her was Arturo Flores of Huntington Park, where 95 percent of residents are Hispanic. “Deploying military forces and conducting militarized ICE raids in immigrant neighborhoods is not about public safety,” Flores said. “It is about political theater that is rooted in fear. Flores directly addressed the 700 Marines who have been deployed out of Twentynine Palms, saying he was a veteran himself. “Remember that you are dealing with Americans,” he said.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.June 11, 2025, 2:41 p.m. ETAt a City Hall news conference, Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles and leaders of more than 30 smaller municipalities just called for an end to the federal immigration enforcement actions that have disrupted cities across the region. “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,” Bass said.June 11, 2025, 2:43 p.m. ETTaylor RobinsonBass suggested that the immigration raids might be being used as a deliberate provocation. “I posit that maybe we are part of a national experiment to determine how far the federal government can go in reaching in and taking over power from a governor, power from a local jurisdiction,” she said, “and frankly leaving our city and our citizens, our residents, in fear.”June 11, 2025, 2:30 p.m. ETDowntown Los Angeles is all but a ghost town right now, even with the curfew lifted. Near City Hall, members of the carpenters’ union are hammering plywood over windows at the request of small businesses worried that rogue protesters will violate tonight’s curfew.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York TimesCredit...Alex Welsh for The New York TimesJune 11, 2025, 2:27 p.m. ETCharlie SavageNational security and legal policy reporterIn 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 — currently has only the word, “[INSERT],” highlighted in yellow.June 11, 2025, 2:26 p.m. ETCharlie SavageNational security and legal policy reporterThe Justice Department cites Office of Legal Counsel memos from the Vietnam War era, written by the future Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, for the idea that presidents have inherent power to use the military to protect federal buildings and functions against protesters, notwithstanding a 19th century law that generally makes it illegal to use troops for law enforcement.June 11, 2025, 2:25 p.m. ETCharlie SavageNational security and legal policy reporterThe Trump administration has filed its response to California’s request for a temporary restraining order that would limit the National Guard and Marines deployed in Los Angeles to guarding federal buildings. The Justice Department argued that the state’s legal objections — including that the guard call-up order did not go through Gov. Gavin Newsom — are meritless and there is no basis for such an order.June 11, 2025, 1:10 p.m. ETGov. Gavin Newsom of California has taken a sharper tone toward President Trump and his administration in a series of online posts and interviews.Credit...Daniel Cole/ReutersTo Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, President Trump’s administration is not unlike the evil Galactic Empire in “Star Wars.”On Tuesday, the official X account for Mr. Newsom’s press office posted a series of TikToks featuring Mr. Trump’s social media posts about the Los Angeles protests, with a voice-over meant to resemble Emperor Palpatine, one of the movie franchise’s villains, reading Mr. Trump’s words as if they were his own. With Darth Vader’s ominous “Imperial March” soundtrack playing in the background and the Empire’s storm troopers marching, the implication was clear.The new line of attack was a sign that Mr. Newsom, an ambitious politician often considered a potential 2028 presidential candidate, is not planning to let his latest feud with Mr. Trump fade easily.Mr. Newsom is using his social media megaphone — and is clearly relishing his moment in the spotlight and spoiling for a fight — as he rails against Mr. Trump’s decision to deploy 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines to Los Angeles during tense protests over deportations, and pushes a lawsuit against his actions.His ire was not reserved for the president. Stephen Miller, the architect of Mr. Trump’s immigration policy, was portrayed on the press office account as General Grievous, a vicious “Star Wars” cyborg, reading one of Mr. Miller’s posts in a mechanical voice: “Our way of life will prevail.”Critics of Mr. Trump have for years compared him and his policies to the Empire from “Star Wars,” and Mr. Newsom did not limit himself purely to fictional allegories.The president, Mr. Newsom said on a podcast, was “unhinged” and a “stone cold liar.”And as for Mr. Miller? “The Governor’s position,” Mr. Newsom’s press office posted, “is that Stephen Miller has no peer when it comes to creating straw man arguments,” using an expletive for emphasis.Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, responded in kind, suggesting that Mr. Newsom was “posting like a schoolchild on social media” rather than dealing with the protests.Mr. Cheung added that Mr. Newsom was “trying to use this moment to launch what will be a failed presidential campaign.”The tone is a departure for Mr. Newsom, who was conciliatory toward Republicans after Mr. Trump’s victory in November. Setting himself apart from many other Democrats, he said that the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports was “deeply unfair.” And he invited onto his podcast right-wing figures like Charlie Kirk, the Turning Point influencer, agreeing with him on how Democrats had lost touch with the working class.Now, his return to an in-your-face, provocative style — sometimes hailed as “dark woke” — could galvanize Democrats who have been mired in an extended period of soul-searching since their presidential-election loss and criticism over the lack of fight against Mr. Trump.Tom Homan, Mr. Trump’s border czar, told NBC News over the weekend that he would arrest anyone who interfered with immigration enforcement — including Mr. Newsom. That offered the governor an obvious response.“Come after me. Arrest me,” Mr. Newsom replied in a television interview. “Let’s just get it over with. Tough guy. I don’t give a damn.”Mr. Trump later said he supported the idea of arresting Mr. Newsom, as well.